Not sure what you mean by ghetto, but Elvis was inspired by early R and B music which was sung by black people, even the DJs of the time thought Elvis was black when they heard his very early songs.
Elvis Presley took country music and combined it with some songs from Black artists. If you listen to the songs they claim he stole, they are totally different than way he performed them. Many Black singers were ripped off by record companies, Elvis took a lot of the brunt of anger, which he did not deserve.
