Jay Electronica

Released: November 4, 2010

Songwriter: Jay Electronica

Producer: Jay Electronica

[Verse]
I said "I love you baby," "Well you don't act like it
Squeeze my feet, kiss my neck, rub my back like it"
And on the phone, it's just "You gon hit me back right quick?"
First we was straight now it feel like we jackknifin''"
Kamikaze love, self-destructive patterns
Mercury in retrograde, four house of Saturn and
Nothing makes me sadder than
Hailing cabs alone goin home on a Saturday
Bumpin' Donny Hathaway, questioning my choices
Thinkin 'bout marriage, carriage and horses
A manor on a hectare of land like a fortress
I hope you understand me
Yo, I'm cold like New York, my heart is warm like Miami
I'm just trying to build a kingdom for my people and my family
Sometimes I don't know what to say, the pain never stops
The cloud never goes away, the rain never drops
It's a luxury
I'm grateful that a mustard seed of faith is enough to be
Enough to move a mountain
My pen is an artery, my heart is a fountain
I apologize

Timothy Elpadaro Thedford (born September 19, 1976), better known by his stage name Jay Electronica, is an American rapper and record producer. He is from New Orleans, Louisiana and currently based in London, United Kingdom.

Electronica first gained significant attention after the release of the musical composition Act Eternal Sunshine (The Pledge), which was made available on a MySpace page in 2007 and has been called a “timeless classic” by Vice Magazine. It is fifteen continuous minutes of music, without drums, built from Jon Brion’s soundtrack to the film Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. In late 2009 he released two singles, both produced by Just Blaze, “Exhibit A” and “Exhibit C”, the latter of which won a Sucker Free Summit Award for Instant Classic. In November 2010, it was announced Jay Electronica had signed to hip hop mogul Jay Z’s Roc Nation record label.

More than a decade after his last project, What the Fuck is a Jay Electronica, and almost exactly eight years to the DAY after he reportedly finished and turned in his album, Jay Electronica finally released his debut studio album A Written Testimony on March 13, 2020. The album features Jay-Z on eight of its ten tracks, leading some to label it a collab album between the two Jays. The-Dream also makes three appearances, and even Travis Scott makes a surprising appearance on “The Blinding.”

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