To put it in a nutshell: Rock & Roll is in the "black" music history of Rhythm & Blues, actually a euphemism for sex. Already the first four titles of this 10-CD-BOX are for "non-Anglistiker" enough to grasp the topic "Sex & Drugs & Alcohol". By the way, the topic of alcohol (as you can hear here occasionally) also found its way into the C&W music scene. Sixty Minute Man - The Dominoes tells about a man who can do "IT" for an hour
Sweet Marijuana Brown - Barney Bigard here the title speaks for itself. When I Get Drunk - Eddie "Cleanhead" Vinson leaves no questions unanswered

Shake, Rattle & Roll - Big Joe Turner is another ambiguous track with some definite innuendo. For the later versions by Bill Haley and Elvis Presley, the lyrics were toned down for the "white" youth as a precaution. Another example of objectionable lyrics in the R&B scene were the songs by Hank Ballard & The Midnighters "Work With Me Annie" and the "logical" follow-up "Annie Had A Baby", here it quickly becomes clear what the man actually means by the word "work". These two tracks were obviously so popular that a response by Etta James "The Wallflower (Dance With Me Henry)" also landed also landed a number one. Work" became "Dance" but the allusion remains just as ambiguous. Note: Even rather innocuous words like "Work" - "Dance" - "Roll" - "Rock" etc. can have a "slightly different" meaning in a certain context have a "slightly different" meaning. Knowing this, you don't have to think long about what a "Lollipop Mama" is up to at Roy Brown. You can tell just by a cursory reading of the title lines which Vice the song is about

These songs are authoritative for the rest of this box. But the focus is clearly on alcohol and sex. About drugs one has not sung at that time yet so freely

Besides the lyrics there is also the earthy music, which made it with some titles into the American Rhythm & Blues charts. Many well-known performers were not too shy to have delicate, ambiguous or even dirty songs pressed into grooves: Cab Calloway, Dinah Washington, The Ink Spots, Champion Jack Dupree, Brownie McGhee, John Lee Hooker - all of them and many others have created a musical genre of their own created.