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Below find an excerpt from the Washington Post article: King Blelvis - An Elvis Obsession Has His Life All Shook Up by Monica Hesse, Washington Post Staff Writer, Tuesday, August 14, 2007; C01 (an alternate version can also be located at Playahata):

Elvis recorded 1,112 songs.

Blelvis tells you this. He knows the words to them all.

Pick a song, any song, the more obscure the better. Pick a song that starts with Q –there’s only one – “Queenie Wahine’s Papaya,” recorded in 1965, released on “Paradise, Hawaiian Style.”

Please pick her papaya, put Queenie Wahine

In perfect perpetual –

Don’t like that one? Pick another. Blelvis will sidewalk-serenade you with any Elvis song you can think of, and all the ones you can’t. He says he knows the dialogue to every movie, too.

Now. Let Blelvis, the Black Elvis, tell you what he is not doing. He is not begging, and he is not homeless. But Blelvis would never dream of denying you the opportunity to donate to his favorite charity, which, incidentally, is named Blelvis. So he’ll just turn around, nice and discreet, while you see what you can spare. The best nation in the world is a do nation, and that’s the truth.

Ladies and gentlemen, thank you. Thanyavurramuch.

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Below find an excerpts from Elvis & Racism - Elvis Presley Legacy is Cloudy Through Lens of Race by Christopher Blank, July 15, 2006:

[…] But the singer’s move to Hollywood struck many as an abandonment of his musical roots. Credibility with struggling black musicians faded when Elvis jumped to the big screen. ‘When he first started out in his career, Presley blurred racial lines’, Bertrand said. ‘But later on in his career he became, for lack of a better term, whiter. When he tried to become more middle class, he lost what people perceived were his black characteristics’. After Elvis’ death in 1977, white America’s continued idolization of the singer didn’t ride well with many black people who, particularly during the 1980s, saw their contributions to pop music overlooked and underexposed.

[...] In 1990, anti-Elvis sentiment exploded from black artists. The group Living Colour lashed out against the music industry through their song Elvis Is Dead: 'I’ve got a reason to believe / We all won’t be received at Graceland’. Raging against gang violence, poverty and inequality, rapper Chuck D of Public Enemy shouted what have become some of the group’s most enduring lyrics. 'Elvis was a hero to most / but he didn’t mean (expletive) to me you see / Straight up racist, that sucker was simple and plain / Mother (expletive) him and John Wayne / Cause I’m black and I’m proud, I’m ready and hyped plus I’m amped / Most of my heroes don’t appear on no stamps’. Recently, Chuck D explained that his attack was against the Elvis whose roots were whitewashed by his legacy. 'The Elvis that died wasn’t the same Elvis that was coming up’, Chuck D said. 'They said he was king. Based on who and what? Based on the quality of the people judging or the quality of his music? What does 'King of Rock and Roll’ mean growing up in a black household? My Chuck Berry records are still in my house. Little Richard is still in the house. Otis Redding and James Brown. The King of what?’

[…] As much as singer Mavis Staples loved Elvis and his music, his unbridled legacy bothered her. 'What helped Elvis was that when he did interviews, he would tell that he got it from blacks’, Staples said. 'Now one thing that I could say for myself was that when I came back to Memphis after Stax closed, maybe about five years later, I only saw Elvis. And that’s when I said, 'wait a minute’. Something should be out here about Stax. Just because it folded doesn’t mean it didn’t happen. And the people of Memphis should have remembered all of the music’.

[…] If ever there were a modern parallel, white rapper Eminem is a shoo-in. Like Elvis, Eminem grew up poor and honed his gift by studying black music and culture. Like Elvis, he’s popular with whites. Like Elvis, he’s become one of the most successful in the business. And like Elvis, Eminem has caught the acting bug.

Eminem doesn’t hesitate to point out the irony on his latest album The Eminem Show, produced by rapper and mentor Dr. Dre. 'I’m not the first king of controversy / I am the worst thing since Elvis Presley / To do black music so selfishly / And use it to get myself wealthy (Hey) / There’s a concept that works’.

Chuck D, a founding father of hip-hop and pop musicologist, said that accepting Elvis, and by extension other white crossover artists, might be easier for black Americans now that black artists are getting more credit and exposure. Several years ago, the Fox TV network sent him to Graceland to do a black-perspective news story about Elvis. The assignment opened his eyes. 'Elvis had to come through the streets of Memphis and turn out black crowds before he became famous’, Chuck D said. 'It wasn’t like he cheated to get there. He was a bad-ass white boy. Just like Eminem is doing today. The thing about today is that Eminem has more respect for black artists and black people and culture today than a lot of black artists themselves. He has a better knowledge where it comes from. Elvis had a great respect for black folk at a time when black folks were considered niggers, and who gave a damn about nigger music?’

Elvis Legacy according to degenerate record collector’s disease overmastered Ted Barron of Boogie Woogie Flu [v]

+Elvis: “The only thing Negroes can do for me is buy my records and shine my shoes.”: Snopes I Wikipedia +Chuck D: Official site I IMDB I Public Enemy Official Website +Eminem: Official site I IMDB I MySpace +Living Colour: Official site I MySpace +Mavis Staples: Official site I IMDB I MySpace

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Searching for Blelvis (Metro Connection, WAMU)

If you've never met Blelvis, the Black Elvis of DC, it would be impossible to pick him out in a crowd. He doesn't look like Elvis, he doesn't dress like Elvis, and he only sort of sounds like Elvis.

Blelvis is an Elvisologist.

(Editor: David Furst)

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I met this man, Blelvis (the Black Elvis), in Washington D.C. on a walk with a few friends. Must have been around 10pm or later. He approached us at a street corner and performed various Elvis songs for us, then asked us for money. Honestly, it was worth a buck. Then he hopped on a bus and was gone from our lives UNTIL 10 minutes later on the walk we came upon him on another street taking out his trash and walking his dog. I said, shocked to find out he lived so close, "Blelvis!" and he said something like "Now you know where I live," and he walked into what was a pretty nice basement apartment in Mount Pleasant and that was the last time we ever saw him.

Washington Post Article (August, 2007): http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/08/13/AR2007081301133.html

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If I met this dude back in the day I would have made him my bf. via Monty Luke

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