Jay Electronica

[Jay Electronica Speaking]
A lot of these cats is whack, flat out. They got some cats flat out that get the mic, they just whack. Where, where, I come from an era where, the art of rhyming like, what you're saying and even if you wanna, okay, let's say you just wanna talk about drugs and your chain, okay: back when Only Built 4 Cuban Linx came out, Raekwon and Ghostface, the whole album is drugs, chains, chicks, but it was also, they also had substance in there, too, you know, that was like social commentary too along with that. But, the poetry of it, if you listen to Raekwon and Ghostface, it's like Fyodor Dostoyevsky, you know what I'm saying? The poetry of it

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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