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Jay Electronica has returned with a brand new challenge known as A Written Testimony: Leaflets — take heed to it under.
Clocking in at simply seven songs, the shock challenge serves as a complement to the Roc Nation MC’s debut album A Written Testimony, which was launched in 2020 following a painfully lengthy watch for a full-length launch.
Leaflets options visitor appearances from Quentin Miller and DRAM, in addition to an intro from Diddy, marking the embattled mogul’s second on-wax cameo since his authorized ordeal following Kanye West‘s “Lonely Roads Nonetheless Go to Sunshine” earlier this 12 months.
In fact, Puff has been a longtime Jay Electronica supporter and unsuccessfully tried to lure him to Dangerous Boy within the late 2000s after the breakout success of “Exhibit C.”
Regardless of the thrill and frenzy {that a} new Jay Electronica challenge would usually create, Leaflets will not be a standard launch. A superb chunk of its 29-minute working time is taken up by sampled audio clips rooted in Jay’s non secular beliefs and conspiracy theories — starting from the existence of UFOs to skepticism over local weather change.
When he does grace the mic, nevertheless, it’s particular. On the bars-heavy “Abracadabra,” Jay Elec confidently declares: “The complete trajectory of my profession screams ‘fuck the business’ / But you’ll be able to’t have a debate concerning the greats and never point out my title.” And “Japan Airline 1682,” which samples the indie rock band Holidays, finds Jay channeling his interior rock star — a curveball not even his day one followers would have anticipated.
One other memorable second comes on “4 Billion, 4 Hundred Million (4,400,000,000) / The Worst Is But To Come” when the New Orleans native hints at extra the place this got here from.
“Hov been such a brother to me and so affected person with me,” he spits, alluding to his irritating lack of standard output. “I gave him 19 albums in at some point and he ain’t even need to pay me.”
Does this imply extra new Jay Electronica is on the way in which?
Contemplating Act II: The Patents of The Aristocracy (The Flip), his legendary, long-lost album which leaked again in 2020, lastly hit streaming simply at some point in the past, it definitely looks like Jay Elec-Hanukkah is as much as one thing.
Stream A Written Testimony: Leaflets under.
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