Who is the modern equivalent to Jimi Hendrix in black music?

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I'm talking:
Someone who is experimental with their sounds
Someone who pushes the genre to another level or creates a new one
Someone whose influence is easily spotted and appreciated.

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For hip hop I'd say MF Doom. I feel like his style was hard to nail down because he was always trying new things, sampling things you didn't commonly see sampled in hip hop, and he's made it cool for rappers to have gimmicks beyond "gangsta, invincible MC or dope boy".

For R&B gotta give it to the weeknd. His first album doesn't sound anything like his latest album. He's also brought a type of grittyness and realness that you didn't get before in R&B all that often. He was singing about the real shytty parts of hollywood and fame.
 

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Prince was the last Black artist who fit that mold

He had the classic singles, classic and masterpiece albums along with amazing songwriting and producing songs for other artists.

A lot of the new artists of today all sound alike and conform to whatever the trend of the year is

There's no artists in this present day in time that is groundbreaking in the way that Jimi Hendrix was
 
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Tyler the Creator.

None
closest is sadly Kanye West IMO
Experimental with his beats
Tried to make gospel album
Yeezys/gap deal

Making a gospel album isn't particularly pushing the sound forward, gospel is a defined genre. Hell, Snoop has a gospel album. And kanye was unsuccessful at it.

IGOR doesn't fit any current genre of music at all really, and it was actually successful.
 

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Our people don’t respect the value of differences from one another.

Even Hendrix caught hell from black folks for not playing “black” nvm that his teacher was Curtis Mayfield or his contributions to the Isley Bros. especially Ernie.

Black folks have bad reactions to worldly views. Azalea didn’t pop off in the beginning because black folks don’t like house music

Gary Clark Jr. is one the most talented brothers to pick up a guitar in a while but black folks don’t like guitars.

The Internet with Syd the Kid is a talented progressive band but nikkaz don’t want to hear progressive cohesive arrangements over true R&B vocals

One paper maybe in reality people will go out they way to talk shyt or bring you down for being black and playing power chords

Jidenna tried to dress like Morris Day & rap, look how it went

It’s weird, immature, stupid, etc but that’s life huh
 

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Tyler the Creator.



Making a gospel album isn't particularly pushing the sound forward, gospel is a defined genre. Hell, Snoop has a gospel album. And kanye was unsuccessful at it.

IGOR doesn't fit any current genre of music at all really, and it was actually successful.
IGOR is just a mix of old RnB and hip hop. Tyler really isnt that experimental.
 
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