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Hug your loved ones. Clear that bucket list. Shoot that shot. As if we needed any more signs that imminent doom is on the horizon, Jay Electronica, music\u2019s foremost harbinger of societal collapse, has reappeared with a fully loaded clip of new music that he\u2019s been dropping at a dizzying pace.<\/p>\n
Some context, for those not familiar with the joke: The New Orleans rapper first gained buzz around 2007-08, quickly becoming one of the most intriguing and highly revered wordsmiths in contemporary hip-hop. He\u2019s also regarded as one of rap\u2019s greatest What Ifs, because he never quite harnessed his buzz to become a truly active, consistent contributor to the game. Instead he chose mystique and reclusivity, emerging from a bidding war in 2010 with a plush deal at Jay-Z<\/a>\u2019s Roc Nation only to promptly disappear and only re-emerge for features, loosies, and freestyles when he feels like it. In the meantime, whispers about his strange and often random movements only boosted his mythology\u2014like that time he had an affair with Kate Rothschild that resulted in the end of her marriage<\/a>. He finally got around to dropping his debut album, A Written Testimony<\/em>, ten years later in March 2020 (which, honestly lived up)\u2026 about a week before the pandemic.<\/p>\n So, to recap: Jay Electronica first materialized right ahead of a historic financial crisis, then returned to give us new music to listen to during a global months-long quarantine. Now, he has once again unceremoniously returned, conspicuously as our current political climate approaches powder-keg levels of volatility.<\/p>\n At least we\u2019ll have an interesting soundtrack for it all. Jay presaged the flood of new music by officially adding an old staple in his discography, Act II: Patents of Nobility<\/em>, to streaming last Thursday. Since then he\u2019s dropped three EP-length projects that feature a random assortment of guests like Westside Gunn<\/a>, DRAM and Drake<\/a>\u2019s one-time \u201cghostwriter\u201d Quentin Miller, and content-wise, everything you\u2019d expect from Electronica music: bars about the Nation of Islam and [the honorable] Louis Farrakhan, mystical bon mots, casual affirmation of various conspiracy theories, and jaw-dropping blink-and-you\u2019ll-miss-it-lines such as \u201cI lived with Puff and Cassie<\/a> but never showed up in the affidavit.\u201d (My favorite on first-listen is probably Power at the Rate of My Dreams<\/em>.) Diddy also provides the opening monologue to one of the projects. Encouraging words from Sean Combs are on one hand a familiar recurring theme across Jay Elect songs and albums\u2014Combs very bitterly lost the bidding war to Jay-Z\u2014but in a post-trial context, hearing him here is kind of a jump scare.<\/p>\n Most of these songs have attention-baiting titles like, \u201c@RealCandeO Tell Us More\u201d or \u201cIs It Possible That The Honorable Elijah Muhammad Is Still Physically Alive???\u201d but the actual song content doesn\u2019t always deliver on that promise. That latter song has one of Jay\u2019s best verses across the new music but on first listen, has absolutely nothing to do with what the title implies, until it gives way to NOI minister Dr Wesley Muhammad running down the history of Elijah\u2019s life. \u201cRemember That One Time Trump Tweaked on Zelenski<\/a> In the White House\u201d is just an automated Siri-like voice reading a Jay Elect tweet. There are several other songs like that, and other minutes of runtime dedicated to clips from things like UFO press hearings. Which is all to say, it\u2019s every bit the heady listen most Jay Elect projects\u2014with the exception of A Written Testimony<\/em>\u2014usually are.<\/p>\n And there may be much more on the horizon. On one of the tracks, Jay Elect makes a public apology to Jay-Z, promising to pay Jigga back for his patience with 19 finished projects. So we\u2019ll have 16 new Jay Electronica albums to soundtrack the end of the world. Good deal?<\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.gq.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Hug your loved ones. Clear that bucket list. Shoot that shot. 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