Legendary <a href="https://www.hotnewhiphop.com/fat-joe-calls-dj-khaled-the-quincy-jones-of-hip-hop-news.132024.html#title-comment-desktop" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">record producer Quincy Jones</a>, while speaking about racism in the music industry, told The Hollywood Reporter that he refused to work with <a href="https://www.hotnewhiphop.com/future-passes-nicki-minaj-kanye-west-and-elvis-in-all-time-billboard-hits-news.111195.html" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">Elvis Presley</a> because the iconic singer was racist.
“No. I wouldn’t work with him,&#8221; Jones told the publication.
He explained: “I was writing for [orchestra leader] Tommy Dorsey, oh God, back then in the ’50s. And Elvis came in, and Tommy said, ‘I don’t want to play with him.’ He was a racist mother — I’m going to shut up now. But every time I saw Elvis, he was being coached by [“Don’t Be Cruel” songwriter] Otis Blackwell, telling him how to sing.”
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Jones also recalled another instance of racism he dealt with during his career while working on the 1965 film, Mirage. 
“They called me to do Gregory Peck’s ‘Mirage’ and I came out here. I was dressed in my favorite suit, and the producer came out to meet me at Universal,” Jones explained. “He stopped in his tracks—total shock—and he went back and told [music supervisor] Joe Gershenson, ‘You didn’t tell me Quincy Jones was a Negro.’ They didn’t use Black composers in films.”
Jones produced Michael Jackson&#8217;s Off the Wall (1979), Thriller (1982), and Bad (1987), as well as numerous other hit records. He has been awarded 28 Grammys.
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