Jay Electronica

Released: January 10, 2010

Featuring: Nneka

Songwriter: Nneka Jay Electronica

Producer: J. Period

[Intro: Nneka]
Black, blackness, yeah
The Black side of me
C'mon, listen up

[Chorus: Nneka]
In all things we commend ourselves
In much patience, in tribulations, in needs, in distress (Walking)
In stripes, in imprisonments, in tumult
We belong to God (Walking)
In all things we commend ourselves
In much patience, in tribulations, in needs, in distress (Walking)
In stripes, in imprisonments, in tumult
We belong to God

[Verse: Jay Electronica]
When the music's in my system
Ain't no tellin' if he Muslim, if he Christian
That's what they be yellin'
I'm God by blood (Uh-huh), not relation (Uh-huh)
So what a bam bam is from creation (What a bam bam)
I never got hated on directly to my face (Hey!)
I never got tased, I never got maced (Nuh-uh)
I never went to jail without rumbling the cops (Whoop!)
Who thought a nigga was a slave trying to put me in my place
And that's just the preface
A universal message from the land of the lepers (Walking)
The camouflaged wolves stealing lambs from the shepherds
Your average John Malkovich
Transform myself to the wind like The Alchemist
You know what the outcome is

[Chorus: Nneka]
In all things we commend ourselves
In much patience, in tribulations, in needs, in distress (Walking)
In stripes, in imprisonments, in tumult
We belong to God (Walking)
In all things we commend ourselves
In much patience, in tribulations, in needs, in distress (Walking)
In stripes, in imprisonments, in tumult
We belong to God (Walking)

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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