You're venturing into odd terroritory with this one.
Not saying you're wrong but in the context of when Jimmy lived he at least initially had trouble getting black people to like him like that since he was thought of as playing "white boy music" while white folks seemed to be into him more at first. Though from my limited knowledge of his life, closer to his death he work to try and appeal to black folks more and tried to play at majority black venues. Also he started doing more blues oriented stuff.
Black people knew who Jimi Hendrix was. He got his start in Black bands. He played in bands with Little Richard, Wilson Pickett, Sam Cooke, Chuck Jackson and the Isley Brothers.
When Jimi Hendrix Met Little Richard
With all due respect. What the fukk did you just write? With all due respect.
YOUR WHITE BOY ROCK HEROS LITERALLY COPY OFF OF BLACK BLUES MUSICIANS. ERIC CLAPTON, STEVIE RAY VAUGHN, the Beatles, the Rolling Stones, Elvis Pressley on and on and on. ALL OF THEM COPIED OFF OF BLACK BLUES MUSICIANS.
BLACK PEOPLE INVENTED ROCK AND ROLL!!!!!!! Literally invented it and nobody anywhere plays the guitar like them. Black people also invented Funk. Have you ever listened to the guitar solos in Funk music?
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That is Clapton in the front seat driving B.B. King.
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This is Stevie Ray Vaughn in a studio copying off of his idol Albert King.
Here is Freddie King. All White boy rockers copy off of him.
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Here is Elmore James in the glasses look up what your White Boy musicians say about him.
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The two guitarist in the picture are Ernie and Marvin Isley. Listen to anything Isley Brothers and you will be floored.
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This is Buddy Guy
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This is Mississippi John Hurt.
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Listen to Drac Hicks solo in the song Slide by the Band Slave.
I often wonder in whom has and is still profiting from jimmy and other black legendary artists that have passed away
Alright, but the thread is addressing dead dudes like Jimi Hendrix and Stevie Ray Vaughn. There was discussion about Eric Clapton and Cream in here too and that is music from the 60's, 70's and 80's; and at no point were any of those guys better than the Black Blues guitarists that they were imitating. There is a difference between playing loud, which is what the White guitarist were versus being good which is what those Black Blues musicians were.
In 2018 there are still some outstanding blues players out there. You just have to get out to hear it, because the music that they are playing on the radio is straight garbage. The stuff coming out of Mali is pretty good too, because if you want to hear Black people still playing the guitar; then they are still do it in Mali. That is the land of the Blues where many African American ancestors originated and I straight love to hear the guitar work in their music.
There is also Bombino from Niger:
We all know hes a closet fakkit. Didn't Pac have a story about that?Quincy Jones shytted on Hendrix. fukk Quincey Jones.
Dude, Jimi ALWAYS did blues music, what do you think "Voodoo Chile" was?
That doesn't mean that the majority of nikkaz was fukkin' with "Experience" Hendrix.
I guarantee you "Voodooo Chile" was not echoing through the streets of fukkin' Watts in '68.
He's talking about people who are 157 years old.
He's talking about the nikkaz who listen to Migos.
JImi's father was the original heir to the Hendrix fortune and he actually cut Jimi's real brother Leon out of the will and left all of Jimi's fortune to his White step sister, who Jimi BARELY even knew.
It's some real foul shyt.
Now, Leon is broke as fukk and this white chick is the one controlling the greatest rock star of all-times legacy
We keep losing
Now, you know damn well the Black folks listening to Cardi B and Chris Brown aren't bumping this
I think everybody knows there are Black people who play the guitar, but Black folks in general aint fukkin' with guitar in 2018 and you know that.
Look at the Hip-Hop/R&B charts, not a guitar playin' motherfukker on it.
First of all I am not from this generation so I can't speak to them, but the thread and the comments in the posts are referring to musicians from the 60's 70's and 80's; which I can speak to. Second of all I know what the fukk music Jimi Hendrix was making, which is why I pointed out that his start came with so many different Black musical groups. Overtime his shyt shifted from traditional Blues to playing that loud annoying shyt that fukking drug addicts make for other drug addicts.
The reason that you are not seeing many young Black guitarist and for that matter trumpeters, pianists, etc., is because the music industry is not pushing that music. The music industry is pushing acts like pushing Migos, etc., because that is where the money is. There is no money for the recording industry to push actual musicians anymore so if you want to hear young musicians then you need to go to clubs and visit smaller music venues to hear them. They are still playing like music in Churches. Black kids in Churches play the Hell out of guitars. The Black Church is where most musical acts came from anyway.
All great choices but my money is on this guy JGWPrince and Chuck Berry also
Maybe on the Coli. Even that it might be few. I've never met black people who are all into JT like that.Justin Timberlake is one. There was even a stickied thread in the fukking booth just because that vulture dropped an album.
Straight up c00n shyt in my opinion.
Musiq and countless other r&b acts dropped albums, yet not a peep.