Jay Electronica

Released: October 5, 2020

Songwriter: Jay Electronica

[Intro]
I love this record
Domino, domino
I only spot a few Blacks the higher I go

[Verse]
I caught 'em lying on the news
It's all good, I'm just trying on my shoes, not a bead of sweat
One of the shortest passages in the King James version
Of the bible we all know is, "Jesus Wept"
So like the Lord say, "I'ma make the song cry"
Him and 'Ye told you pussy niggas watch the throne, why?
I got the swag of the Prophets
The view of an Astronaut from NASA in a rocket
Yeah, plus I brung the cross with me
That's the beard of Muhammad and the holy cross with me
Quick fast like Ramadan
I'm mastered, I'm a don, broke fast with Tony embassy
Last at Hakkasan, deep like the mind of Farrakhan
The motherfucking rap phenomenon
Shout out to Diddy Combs, my nigga for life (What up)
It's the New World Order, the theories was right
Killuminati, it's the new Illuminati
Catch you outside of your lobby and give you that wasabi
Nigga wallahi
Catch a body lyrically and literally, everything is a probably
And it'd take you forever to try and stop me
Busting bottles, fucking models and ducking paparazzi
Killuminati, and fuck Bill O'Reilly and Rudy Giuliani
Nigga we the new illuminati

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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