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Message: [QUOTE="JordyG, post: 2027564, member: 6819"] Further, the phrase "Rock and Roll" was a slang word in black culture at the time that meant to have sex. So earlier did the word "Jazz". So really in the black community on both occasions, it was a kind of "in" joke when others began to call R & B, Rock and Roll and the music before it, Jazz. Alan Freed was not stupid and realized there was a money making opportunity in this music for both the musicians and those who advocated for it. R & B was called race music. R & B concerts were being raided, performers were being put in jail, records were being smashed, recording studio's were being threatened, burned and boycotted, and producers were being hit with lawsuits and threatened with jail time. Freed smartly realized the phrase R & B had a connotation, a stigma, and changing the name ultimately changed the perception and the paradigm for the greater majority of the people in this country. He positioned himself at the forefront of a musical movement. The powers that be saw through the disguise and ultimately he was set up for the payola scandal which ruined him. [/QUOTE]