DON’T KNOW MUCH ABOUT HISTORY: Joy Reid Lunges Into Racist Rant on White People Stealing Music Styles Blacks Invented.

They can’t originally invent anything more than they ever were able to invent good music. We black folk gave y’all country music, hip hop, R&B, jazz, rock and roll. They couldn’t even invent that, but they have to call a white man “the King” [Elvis Presley]. Because they couldn’t make rock and roll, so they have to stamp “the King” on a man whose main song was stolen from an overweight black woman.

You ain’t nothing but a hound dog. Think about the lyrics. Why would a man, you ain’t nothing but a hound dog lying all the time. That’s a song a woman sings about a man. He stole that song and made it a hit because he couldn’t invent rock and roll.

Leiber and Stoller could not be reached for comment:

Elvis credited black artists throughout his career, did wonders for civil rights, and he did not "steal" Hound Dog from Big Mama Thornton. She recorded it first — but it was written by Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller, two white guys.

Reid is an idiot, a continuing series. https://t.co/Gb0fZjqlig

— Mark Hemingway (@Heminator) August 19, 2025