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Jay Electronica, who for years pissed off followers together with his lack of output, is out of the blue dropping music left and proper.
Quickly after releasing his long-lost album Act II: Act II: The Patents of The Aristocracy (The Flip) and A Written Testimony: Leaflets late final week, the Roc Nation rapper continued the flood over the weekend with two additional tasks.
A Written Testimony: Energy on the Price of My Goals options 5 new songs — together with a collaboration with Westside Gunn and Hit-Boy that’s positive to pique the eye of even probably the most detached Jay Elec fan.
Mars, The Inhabited Planet — which can be falls underneath Jay’s A Written Testimony collection — clocks in at a barely extra beneficiant eight tracks, with a sole visitor look coming from singer PYT Joyce.
Very similar to his aforementioned tasks, these newest efforts are affected by audio samples and dialogue that mirror Jay Electronica’s non secular, politic and conspiracy theorist beliefs. Some may say they take up too a lot of the airtime.
A few of the tune titles are fairly explosive, too, like “CNN & BBC Are Liars,” whereas it’s laborious to inform if “@RealCandaceO… Inform Us Extra!” is in help of or opposition to the controversial right-wing pundit Candace Owens (who shall be acquainted to Kanye West followers).
Both manner, Jay Electronica dropping 4 tasks in a single week is likely one of the biggests surprises of the yr — and having rapped about giving his label boss JAY-Z “19 albums in sooner or later,” who is aware of what number of extra he may need up his sleeve.
Stream A Written Testimony: Energy on the Price of My Goals and A Written Testimony: Mars, The Inhabited Planet under.
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