What’s poppin yall, Jay Electronica will never drop Act II.
It’s never going to happen, and for anyone that is still somehow believing it will come,
it won’t.
For those of you that aren’t aware of who Jay Electronica is, you might be a bit younger
but you’ll get familiar with him in this video and I can guarantee you’ll enjoy something
out of his discography, as non-existent as it is.
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Jay Electronica got on everyone’s radar over ten years ago; in 2007 from the song/album/ep,
I don’t know what it’s called but it was one track that was 15 minutes long.
Eternal Sunshine (The Pledge) was posted to myspace and samples the soundtrack of the
movie Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind.
Jay Electronica loves film and their scores and frequently makes reference to them or
samples them.
This track is a masterpiece; the beginning it’s Erykah Badu and Just Blaze talking
and sharing a story, basically introducing Jay Electronica.
And then we get to him rapping; nothing but bars, with a quick flow, and story-telling
all without any drums.
The depth of the lyrical content on this is astounding and every single time you listen
to it there will be something new to find.
I know most of you won’t even take the time to search for the song after if you’ve never
listened to him so I put it in the description so all you have to do is click.
This is one of the greatest pieces of art in hip hop ever put out so you HAVE to listen
to it.
Another of the early songs released was Exhibit C, produced by Just Blaze once again with
storytelling transitioning from him being poor and almost homeless, to referencing different
religions and connecting them while also mentioning details about the ideologies he is known to
be associated with like the Nation of Islam and the 5%ers in some bars that likely go
over people’s heads, and how can we forget the most quoted and popular part of this song.
I could sit here all day talking about tracks he’s released, well… not all day since
he’s barely released anything new but there are over 100 songs out there in different
compilations, one being a secret youtube channel he made uploading tracks from 2004.
He announced Act II would be released in the Christmas of the next year and that’s what
set the ball rolling with all of the anticipation for an album that will never release.
In 2010 he was signed to Jay-Z’s Roc Nation and on March 8th, 2012 he announced that the
next day he would be turning in the album and it was completed.
Over 6 years later and we can clearly see that if this was true, then it never saw the
light of day.
It’s been a disappointment because back in 2010 everyone swore Jay Electronica was
going to be hip-hop’s next huge thing, its savior, and signing to Jay-Z’s label was
gonna solidify that all that was left was the album… and it never came.
It’s been hip hop fans biggest frustrations and they continuously give Jay Electronica
a pass and anticipate it while they would forget about any other rapper because they
just know it will be incredible.
He even said a year ago or so that he would be releasing his album whenever Louis Farakkhan
said he should, which is just trolling at this point.
Jay Electronica is a really mysterious person as well; he raps so smoothly but if you’ve
ever watched an interview of him he constantly stutters.
I was shocked at first, it’s like two entirely different people, one that’s rapping and
one that is talking to the rest of us.
But one of the biggest clouds of mystery surrounding Jay Electronica is his relationship or former
relationship with Kate Rothschild.
Now if you know anything about the Rothschild’s they are a conspiracy theorists obsession,
and while I usually clown on conspiracy theorists this is one that while I don’t believe,
I entertain it.
There are some really creepy photos from one of their parties back then where the biggest
artists and celebrities were all attending.
But to basically sum it up; they are an incredibly rich Jewish family of hundreds of generations
that made their money in banking.
They are the elites and for someone like Jay Electronica, someone from the projects of
New Orleans to have a relationship with one of them is crazy.
But it’s not even that simple; Kate Rothschild was married to another really rich multi-millionaire
or probably even billionaire if you count his family for nine years and they had three
kids.
She CHEATED on her husband with Jay Electronica; he straight up cucked a billionaire.
He’s gotta be doing voodoo or some kinda magic this is like something you see out of
a movie.
And there was another time someone asked about where she was in one of Jay Electronica’s
periscopes; and he said the Rothschild is where I tell her to be.
I mean not only did he get a billionaire heiress to abandon her husband with 3 kids but he
got her on a tight leash, he gotta keep his pimp hand strong.
There’s the question of the title; is Jay Electronica a failure?
From the perspective of the music business; yeah undoubtedly, he’s never even released
a full album and nobody knows how well he sells.
He got a lot of criticism when he went off on Kendrick Lamar a while back on one of his
drunken periscopes and people were saying he’s jealous that Kendrick is in the place
he feels he should have been in but he’s just a drug addicted alcoholic.
BUT; in terms of artistry and impact in such a small
discography than he’s the exact opposite and one of the biggest successes of all time.
He’s still headlining different festivals and the hype for him is still there, he’s
already amongst the legends, and more than anything else he knows how to keep the hype
alive.
I think him never releasing Act II is just a part of his mystery; whenever you finally
forget about him for just a little while he pops out with a song.
The last one was this year featuring with Justin Bieber on Poo Bear’s song Hard 2
Face Reality and before that in 2016 with Chance the Rapper
called How Great.
When it comes down to it; Jay Electronica is one of those once in a generation artists
that you can never really wrap your head around or put into some box that can be understood.
There’s times when he’s belligerent drunk and sounding like a crackhead, times when
he sounds like he’s enlightened and is legitimately speaking facts, and times where he just disappears
for months at a time, it’s almost like he’s on the borderline of not existing at all.
Everyone has a crazy story about interacting with or meeting him and maybe his love for
movies inspired him to make his own.
Except we’re all the actors and he’s both the director and the lead; taking both the
time to sit back and watch us and stepping in to provide his part.
But lemme know in the comments; how did you first find out about electronica if you knew
who he was before this and what was your FIRST reaction to him.
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