It's time for a Jay Electronica thread

I've been listening to Exhibit C nonstop. Anyone else into this guy?

― Back Like That (makeitpop), Wednesday, 27 January 2010 00:44 (3 years ago) Permalink

yep. recommend http://www.gillespetersonworldwide.com/podcasts/jay_electronica_podcast.mp3 good interview & music, shambolic late night feel, includes pre-act 1, act 1 and the act 2 previews, basically sampler of everything up to before Exhibit A. First 20 mins or so is straight music if you don't like talky talky.

― zvookster, Wednesday, 27 January 2010 01:08 (3 years ago) Permalink

fan videos should be the new thing by now if the internet worked properly

― zvookster, Wednesday, 27 January 2010 01:09 (3 years ago) Permalink

loving "victory"

― sir ilx-a-lot (cutty), Wednesday, 27 January 2010 01:11 (3 years ago) Permalink

yah the podcast above starts with that track then goes into Act 1:Eternal Sunshine (minus the original piano intro with just blaze and erica hagiography which is a bit much) it's gr8

― zvookster, Wednesday, 27 January 2010 01:14 (3 years ago) Permalink

*erykah

― zvookster, Wednesday, 27 January 2010 01:17 (3 years ago) Permalink

i followed tone treazure on twitter―she does the hook on "Victory Is In My Clutches" (also Rick Ross "Valley of Death")―but got fed up with lots of jesusfreak tweets then unfollowed after some "what's up with fags trying to rep the kingdom" type of shit i mean enough's enough

― zvookster, Wednesday, 27 January 2010 01:22 (3 years ago) Permalink

just realized that cutty's talking about the "victory" mix that somebody put together.

swag thread weighs in:

dunno if this is goon-approved but i'm kind of feelin the Jay Electronica mixtape.

― forksclovetoFFFFFFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUU- (Whiney G. Weingarten)

anyone w/ the degree of hype he has is bound to be overrated but i think stupid fruity crazy swag auto goons are generally positive on the jay electronica issue

― not a playa but i ilx a lot (deej)

i like jay electronica a lot

― Na'vi Girls (Need Love Too) (M@tt He1ges0n)

i just didn't think i'd ever rep for someone whose name is jay electronica, even if he references vonnegut

― forksclovetoFFFFFFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUU- (Whiney G. Weingarten)

i dig jay electronica, no tofu

― J0rdan S., Wednesday, January 20, 2010 12:02 AM (1 week ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

I want to like Jay Elec more than I like Jay Elec u_u

― i'd look psychotic in a baklava (The Reverend)

― zvookster, Wednesday, 27 January 2010 01:43 (3 years ago) Permalink

finally getting into "Exhibit C" in more than an abstracted "this is good, but I don't feel like listening to it" way

― she got dumps like a rage, rage (The Reverend), Friday, 19 February 2010 07:24 (3 years ago) Permalink

I'd completely avoided him purely on the basis of his name but Exhibit C is really great, last verse especially.

― Space Battle Rothko (Matt DC), Friday, 19 February 2010 17:50 (3 years ago) Permalink

the production on 'victory' is a lot more novel and interesting in its use of melodies than i first noticed. i'll probably love it soon.

― united arab amirites (samosa gibreel), Friday, 19 February 2010 18:12 (3 years ago) Permalink

finally got around to the Victory mixtape and it is officially dope as fuck

every line every rhyme every verse is a quotable
catch me in mexico meditatin with quetzacotl

― grady "cougar" mellencamp (The Reverend), Sunday, 21 March 2010 16:40 (3 years ago) Permalink

the 'victory' that i downloaded wasn't tagged, and the online tracklist i found didn't match up i didn't think? and it was 27 tracks long so i didn't feel like tagging. anyway can someone link me to a tagged version?

― corrine bailey the chef (J0rdan S.), Sunday, 21 March 2010 16:42 (3 years ago) Permalink

i get over the problem of his name by calling him Jay Elect and just pretending that's actually his name.

one i got was one mp3!it's all old stuff anyhow xpost

― triumph of the will the insult comic dog (zvookster), Sunday, 21 March 2010 16:44 (3 years ago) Permalink

I just tagged it from the tracklist I found, which matched up fine. I gotta call Jay E a pretentious bastard for making a lazily untagged ziptape into some contrived "song titles aren't important" thing.

― grady "cougar" mellencamp (The Reverend), Sunday, 21 March 2010 16:47 (3 years ago) Permalink

he didn't make it

― triumph of the will the insult comic dog (zvookster), Sunday, 21 March 2010 16:47 (3 years ago) Permalink

yeah it's some random website that did it

― corrine bailey the chef (J0rdan S.), Sunday, 21 March 2010 16:48 (3 years ago) Permalink

I got over any problems with his name when I discovered he wasn't some Cool Kids-style fashion rapper.

― grady "cougar" mellencamp (The Reverend), Sunday, 21 March 2010 16:50 (3 years ago) Permalink

Dj Furious Styles and DJ Dub put together a compilation of Jay Electronica’s works unlike “Who the F*ck is Jay Electronica” these tracks where submitted by Jay Electronica himself.

― grady "cougar" mellencamp (The Reverend), Sunday, 21 March 2010 16:51 (3 years ago) Permalink

is it that hard not to tag your tracks like a fucking asshole? idk

― corrine bailey the chef (J0rdan S.), Sunday, 21 March 2010 16:56 (3 years ago) Permalink

yeah, that was basically my point

― grady "cougar" mellencamp (The Reverend), Sunday, 21 March 2010 16:58 (3 years ago) Permalink

hip hop YOU identify with

― johnny crunch, Sunday, 21 March 2010 16:58 (3 years ago) Permalink

haha they sound like douches. that's their excuse, not his. think it's bullshit that he submitted the tracks too.

― triumph of the will the insult comic dog (zvookster), Sunday, 21 March 2010 16:59 (3 years ago) Permalink

like the mos def verse cut from a shade 45 exclusive snippet & google eyes live & some features were submitted by the artist? and after releasing everything for free for three years he puts "exhibit C" on itunes and then puts it on a mixtape while it's still troubling the itunes charts, with just blaze going ham on nahright for putting up the mp3? and for his first sanctioned mixtape ever he picks some no-marks and never mentions it anywhere?

― triumph of the will the insult comic dog (zvookster), Sunday, 21 March 2010 17:28 (3 years ago) Permalink

just blaze went ham on nahright? this changes everything

― grady "cougar" mellencamp (The Reverend), Sunday, 21 March 2010 17:32 (3 years ago) Permalink

whatever date it was never forget

― triumph of the will the insult comic dog (zvookster), Sunday, 21 March 2010 17:33 (3 years ago) Permalink

you know come to think of it, ghost and raekwon are a lot like dostoevsky

― facepalm death (samosa gibreel), Thursday, 25 March 2010 16:33 (3 years ago) Permalink

lol

― shite new answers (cutty), Thursday, 25 March 2010 16:34 (3 years ago) Permalink

i love that snippet.. "THE POETRY OF IT"

― shite new answers (cutty), Thursday, 25 March 2010 16:34 (3 years ago) Permalink

i'm getting into this tape in a very big way

― facepalm death (samosa gibreel), Thursday, 25 March 2010 16:35 (3 years ago) Permalink

link?

― And guess what? I think Pitchfork is going to give it a BM. (M@tt He1ges0n), Thursday, 25 March 2010 16:39 (3 years ago) Permalink

even tho "exhibit c" is one of the dopest rap songs i've heard in a long time, i refuse to manually tag 27 tracks -- stop being an asshole, jay

― J0rdan S., Thursday, 25 March 2010 16:56 (3 years ago) Permalink

new freddie gibbs :)

http://www.xxlmag.com/online/?p=74300

― And guess what? I think Pitchfork is going to give it a BM. (M@tt He1ges0n), Thursday, 25 March 2010 17:07 (3 years ago) Permalink

beat almost sounds like pete rock or something

― And guess what? I think Pitchfork is going to give it a BM. (M@tt He1ges0n), Thursday, 25 March 2010 17:10 (3 years ago) Permalink

yeah, i've been it to that victory mix tape for awhile. these are all older tracks tho,right? some grown man rap lol

― Aerosol, Thursday, 25 March 2010 17:51 (3 years ago) Permalink

Jay needs to do a decent full length or tape man

Cannot wait for the new Gibbs - all the leaks are awesome !!!

Am interested in seeing what Jay does but am hammering miles more pill and gibbs at the minute

― out comes stanley, Thursday, 25 March 2010 18:01 (3 years ago) Permalink

i don't make a huge distinction between mixtapes and albums in rap these days, especially ones like 'victory,' (no dj drops, from what i can tell nearly all original beats, high quality throughout). doesn't bug me that it isn't tagged or the tracks don't have names, either.

― facepalm death (samosa gibreel), Thursday, 25 March 2010 18:52 (3 years ago) Permalink

so yeah... roc nation... shiny suit theory...etc.

― The Brainwasher² = (The Brainwasher) X (The Brainwasher), Monday, 15 November 2010 16:41 (2 years ago) Permalink

i haven't really followed this whole 'controversy' but just vaguely hearing about it indirectly is kind of hilarious, like people are pissed about this?

― deej otm (some dude), Monday, 15 November 2010 16:54 (2 years ago) Permalink

Does this mean he might finally put a fucking album out?

― Matt DC, Monday, 15 November 2010 16:56 (2 years ago) Permalink

yeah some people are pissed, joined the "darkside"/"illumunati"/he "abandoned" the "underground"/reactionary bs - plus Diddy feels "betrayed" or some shit

and yeah I think the album is on the way - he just dropped 2 new songs which is like a record for him

― The Brainwasher² = (The Brainwasher) X (The Brainwasher), Monday, 15 November 2010 16:58 (2 years ago) Permalink

The fact that Shiny Suit Theory features The-Dream, Jay-Z and, erm, Charlotte Gainsbourg is instructive enough.

― Matt DC, Monday, 15 November 2010 17:09 (2 years ago) Permalink

Late on this, but love both Eternal Sunshine and Victory.

― mandatorily joined parties (Hurting 2), Monday, 13 December 2010 01:01 (2 years ago) Permalink

Love this, even though it's kind of pretentious:

The Christ told me come closer to the light man
went blind and woke up in front of a mic stand

― mandatorily joined parties (Hurting 2), Thursday, 16 December 2010 03:00 (2 years ago) Permalink

http://www.factmag.com/2012/07/30/cult-rap-hero-jay-electronica-announces-tracklist-for-new-album-serge-and-charlotte-gainsbourg-to-feature/

01 Real Magic [ft. Ronald Regan]
02 New Illuminati [ft. Kanye West]
03 Patents of Nobility
04 Life on Mars (@FatBellyBella)
05 Bonnie & Clyde guest starring Serge Gainsbourg
06 Dinner at Tiffanys (The Shiny Suit Theory) [ft. Charlotte Gainsbourg, Jay-Z & The-Dream]
07 Memories & Merlot
08 Better in Tune with the Infinite [ft. Latonya Givens]
09 A Letter to Falon
10 Road to Perdition [ft. Jay-Z]
11 Welcome to Knightsbridge [ft. Sean Diddy Combs]
12 Rough Love [ft. Kanye West]
13 Run & Hide guest starring The Bullitts
14 Nights of the Roundtable (first draft skeleton)
15 10,000 Lotus Petals

So unsurprisingly this is the sort of subject matter you go for when you're boffing a Rothschild.

― Matt DC, Monday, 30 July 2012 09:04 (9 months ago) Permalink

11 Welcome to Knightsbridge [ft. Sean Diddy Combs]
11 Welcome to Knightsbridge [ft. Sean Diddy Combs]
11 Welcome to Knightsbridge [ft. Sean Diddy Combs]
11 Welcome to Knightsbridge [ft. Sean Diddy Combs]
11 Welcome to Knightsbridge [ft. Sean Diddy Combs]
11 Welcome to Knightsbridge [ft. Sean Diddy Combs]

― r|t|c, Monday, 30 July 2012 09:18 (9 months ago) Permalink

16 Scrambled Eggs at Claridges [ft. Françoiz Breut and Soulja Boy]

― Matt DC, Monday, 30 July 2012 09:23 (9 months ago) Permalink

14 Nights of the Roundtable (first draft skeleton)

this didn't instil me w/hope that this lp is raring to go fwiw

― , Blogger (schlump), Monday, 30 July 2012 10:46 (9 months ago) Permalink

it's too bad that he dropped the tracklist before announcing the album... this was really ripe for a fake

― buzzafeed (J0rdan S.), Monday, 30 July 2012 13:51 (9 months ago) Permalink

disappointing that this thread was bumped for the album track listing but not for the rothschild/goldsmith gossip

― lex pretend, Monday, 30 July 2012 13:53 (9 months ago) Permalink

lmao @ this guy announcing that his next single will feature chris brown

― cute, banned, alert (some dude), Monday, 3 September 2012 00:12 (8 months ago) Permalink

Speaking of lmao how did I miss that tracklist

― Jandek at the Disco (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 3 September 2012 01:13 (8 months ago) Permalink

you need to be better in tune with the infinite obviously

― cute, banned, alert (some dude), Monday, 3 September 2012 01:18 (8 months ago) Permalink