This isn’t a “go back in time and assassinate” someone question. It’s just their musical career never takes off and thus any music they ever would have made is no longer in this timeline.

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    11 months ago

    Nothing.

    Elvis didn’t invent anything musically, he was just the first white guy to do what Black guys had been doing.

    If it wasn’t Elvis, it would have been someone else a couple months later.

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      11 months ago

      Actually, that was one thing I considered. If he hadn’t become a superstar by never writing a single song, would it have changed the industry’s thoughts on using pretty faces to sell other people’s songs?

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      10 months ago

      “Though 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
      Twenty million other white rappers emerge
      But no matter how many fish in the sea
      It’d be so empty without me” - Eminem