VEGAS MYTHS BUSTED: Elvis Was a Straight-Up Racist – Mary J. Blige, Quincy Jones, Chuck D Weigh In On A Persistent Controversy
In 2002, hip-hop vocalizer Mary J. Blige sang “Blue Suede Shoes,” a Carl Perkins song popularized past Elvis Presley, during the “Divas Live” special on cablegram electronic network VH1. She later told the Atlanta Journal-Constitution: “I prayed virtually it because i cognize Elvis was a racist. But that was simply…