Please excuse
my rant, but I have to get this off my chest.
Jay Electronica is one of the dopest emcess in the game right now. But, is he really in the game without an
album?? Jay Electronica is a lyricist. That gets him at least 8 cool points. He dated Erykah Badu. She is dope, so that gets him another 10 points. Exhibit C is one of the best mixtape songs I
have ever heard. Yep, add another 15
points. He rapped toe to toe with some
of the best emcess in the game, and held his own. Add 20 points.
But, despite his great skills and all the cool points in the world, the
fact remains that he still has not released an album. My frustration cannot be tempered because I do
not know who I should be mad at. He is
signed to Roc Nation, I think, so should my anger be directed at the management
there? Or, is Jay Electronica being a
perfectionist and not finishing his album?
Who knows? He needs to drop an
album because no matter how talented he is, his buzz is just about dead. Along those same lines, I was happy to see J.
Cole drop his album while his buzz was still hot. Shout out to him for dropping that classic, “Friday
Night Lights.” Hip hop fans can be
fickle. They can love you today and hate
you tomorrow. Today you are the best and
tomorrow you are old news. Remember
Mims, Mr. “this is why I’m hot?” Where
is he now? You have to strike while the iron is hot. I hope its not too late for Electronica.
I
heard the name “Jay Electronica” for the first time a few years ago. I was browsing online, as I like to do, and I
came across his name. I asked a few of
my boys if they had ever heard of him.
All everyone said was “listen to Exhibit C.” Nobody said listen because of any particular
reasons, they all just said listen. So I
did. If you have not heard the song,
listen to the link below. It is a
classic track. At the time of its
release, it won a Sucker Free Summit Award for Instant Classic. From that moment going forward, I began
following his career. Since then, he has
released a few mix tapes. Check out some
of his newer songs.
Exhibit
C
“When
I was sleeping on a train, sleepin’ on Meserole Ave out in the rain, without
even a slice of pizza to my name, too proud to beg for change, mastering the
pain, when New York Ni**as were calling southern rappers lame but then jacking
out slang . . .”
Shiny
Suit Theory
“Pay
no attention to the critics and vulture they’d rather have a shot of Belvy just
to spite you, they passing judgments cause they feel they got the right to,
f**k em, I let the dice roll like the father did, I got to shine its in my
blood im a Harlem Kid, I treat my babies right treate my ladies lady like, hit
em with a remix to make sure they play me twice . . .
The
Ghost of Christopher Wallace
"Don’t
talk to me about who’s the best alive or who is in your top five, cause he is
not ill, real recognize real, stick to your deal, try to make a cool mil off
the single, with that ringtone appeal, in three years you’ll be nil . . . “
Jay
Electronica tweeted at the end of July 2012 that his album is finished. This is good news, but I still have no idea
when, if at all, that it will be released.
Peace
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