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“Because making something disappear isn’t enough you have to bring it back. Second is “The Pledge,” in which something extraordinary happens to the object, and third is ‘The Prestige’, in which the trick reaches its finale. First is “The Pledge,” in which a simple object is offered up for inspection to confirm its inconspicuousness. Jay Electronica’s project titles promised a trilogy inspired by writer Christopher Priest’s The Prestige, in which the three acts of a magic trick are defined. The fact it still hadn’t died down when he finally posted a screenshot of the album’s tracklist and said he had turned in the album two years later, is testament to how big the hype over it was.Īnd then things grew silent. It only happened after both Jigga and Puff had been embroiled in a heated bidding war for the right to add him to their respective teams. In 2010 Jay Elec signed a deal with the company of that other renowned Jay: Roc Nation. That it would take this long for Act II: The Patents of Nobility (the Turn) to reach ears, seemed unthinkable at that point. Everybody and their mom hijacked the instrumental for an unofficial remix, and still no one came close to “Jay ElecHannukah, Jay ElecYarmulke, Jay ElectRamadaan, Muhammad Asalaamica, RasoulAllah Subhanahu wa ta’ala through your monitor.” If a single track could provide both the scorching, all-consuming blaze and fruitful aftermath of a volcanic eruption, what could an entire album by Jay Elec do? There is nary a rap fan older than 25 who cannot rap along to the song. The promise closely inched towards fulfillment in December of the same year in the form of “Exhibit C.” The impact of the track produced by Just Blaze on hip-hop’s landscape is hard to overstate the term ‘hit record’ would not remotely do it justice. In following years, several loosies would pop up online, ultimately collected in the popular 2009 mixtape What The Fuck Is A Jay Electronica?, which furthered the hype. It felt different, and grand at the same time. Even more noticeable though, was his calm, self-assured flow, and the somewhat melancholy mood of it all. The tape had been made utilizing the internal mic of his laptop and counted only fifteen minutes, but somehow also featured glowing recommendations from luminaries Erykah Badu and Just Blaze. Jay Electronica recorded his first major feat Act I: Eternal Sunshine (The Pledge) to a selection of drumless loops taken from Jon Brion’s soundtrack to the film Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. How very, very wrong a person can possibly be. That I appreciated what he did, and that hiphop what eventually be thankful, precisely because he was taking the time it needed. I dapped him up, and told him not to worry about the people asking what was keeping his debut album. It was history in the making, and we were there to witness.Īfter an absolutely raucous half hour, the man of the hour leisurely made the rounds through his audience, who circled around him like apostles whose messiah has just been revealed to them. As if all those years had been working towards this point. And Jay Electronica felt like the culmination of it. It was a time in which the power of major label marketing machines seemed broken by a small army of online rap connaisseurs and mixtape DJ’s.

Add to that the fact he came up through posting tracks on Myspace during what would retrospectively become known as the ‘blog era’. And the way in which he married the then already dominant south and hiphop’s New York roots into the same person, made him a great unifier amongst all who heard him. His distance to rap materialism and penchant for spirituality immediately set him apart from many of his peers. He repped New Orleans’ Third Ward Slum while rapping about the time he was homeless, drifting through New York. Here was the new Rakim, Nas and Jay-Z rolled into a single entity.

Jay electronica albums full#

It was Friday night, February 19th 2010, when Jay Electronica pulled the full, delirious crowd of Amsterdam’s Sugar Factory onto the stage, to join him in his performance of “Exhibit C.” That is, almost the full crowd, since after a brief moment of doubt, I decided to remain on the balcony to fully take in the glorious spectacle unfolding below.

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