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

[TheBigBopper]

But I don’t expect too much from nikkas on this forum
You’ll call him a hipster cac, c00n
Knowing damn well most of you probably called Jimi the same thing
But gotta stay in the faux problack persona for daps

this music is interesting, but sounds princey. Not innovative like Hendrix

 

[Paper Boi]

Tosin Abasi has entered the chat. Progressive metal is super niche though.

well post some shyt

 

[TEH]

Kanye but his c00ning and poor choices will make most of us not see it

 

[Adeptus Astartes]

well post some shyt

 

[GUWOPPERS]

Tosin Abasi has entered the chat. Progressive metal is super niche though.

I'll check him out, I love prog, black, math, everything.

I just think Thundercat is probably the biggest guitarist out now.

Anderson Paak on drums.

Childish is somewhere in the convo but he don't really jam instruments like that.


The music landscape in 2021 isn't ripe for a Hendrix type IMO.

The only shyt that blows up is pop and rap.

 

[Kyle C. Barker]

Name an old R&B song that sounds like IGOR'S THEME.

That song has elements of techno, rock, R&B, pop, EDM and gospel all at the same damn time and does it seamlessly.

Sounds like an MF doom influence

I haven't heard the whole album but I do respect Tyler as artist

 

[Kyle C. Barker]

Also Kanye is an overstatement.

The last producer/composer to majorly shift the sound of music as we know it was timbaland

 

[TheBigBopper]

This guy is good too, but finger style picking + tapping on an electric guitar was done years before he came around, plus unlike Hendrix, this music is not very commercial so there’s limited (if any at all) influence on black music

 

[Adeptus Astartes]

Also Kanye is an overstatement.

The last producer/composer to majorly shift the sound of music as we know it was timbaland

I'd say the Neptunes are up there too.

 

[Professor Emeritus]

Yep

And dudes naming guys who don't play instruments. Hehe

If we're talking rock then Tunde Adebimpe and TV on the Radio have to be in the conversation. In terms of being experimental and pushing new boundaries while actually making amazing music they're up there with anyone in the 21st century. It often takes a few listens to get into what they're doing cause their shyt ain't superficial but they set the bar higher.

 

[Kyle C. Barker]

I'd say the Neptunes are up there too.

You're right. They are.

But I like timbaland more



Edit: if timbaland and Neptunes didn't exist music would sound way different today

 

[Auger]

Flying Lotus?
Tyler the Creator

 

[Jean Jacket]

Kid Cudi

There is the best answer.

 

[Doobie Doo]

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.



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.

De La did that well over a decade before Doom

 

[GzUp]

Master p