Albums Jay Electronica - A Written Testimony (Discussion Thread)

[T.he I.nformant]

Some ask me "Jay man
Why come for so many years you been exempt?"
'Cause familiarity don't bring gratitude just contempt
And the price of sanity is too damn high just like the rent
Hmm-hmm, hmm-hmm, hmm-hmm, uh, uh
Sometimes I was held down by the gravity of my pen (Pen)
Sometimes I was held down by the gravity of my sin (Sin)
Sometimes like Santiago, at crucial points of my novel
My only logical option was to transform into the wind

&


"Hov hit me up like, "What, you scared of heights?
Know you sister tired of workin', gotta do her something nice"
I'm like, "Don't he know I stay up for Fallon late nights?"
She need bread, she need rice, she need threads, she need ice
Either tell it to my bank account or say it to the dice
When I lay down in my bed it's like my head in the vice
When I look inside the mirror all I see is flaws
When I look inside the mural all I see is walls
And the wee hours of night, tryna squeeze out bars
Bismillah, just so y'all could pick me apart?"


the pressure must've been too much for jay elec but atleast we got it

I agree. He’s clearly been under pressure but where does that come from. One one hand, it seems to come from himself as he comes across as a perfectionist. On the other hand, I think he’s reflecting on the highly critical attitude of the rap community and I think you see that in here already with some of the critiques/takes of the album. It seems clear that having Jay-Z helped alleviate some of that pressure at least to the point where he felt comfortable releasing a project. Additionally it seemed they both inspired and motivated each other. I’ma keep spinning this and let it digest but I’m just grateful it’s here finally.

 

[L. Deezy]

Hold

 

[Mars]

People are giving Jay-Z credit for verses that Electronica probably wrote.

 

[THE MACHINE]

Nah Hov is just talking to his grandmother and mother in law


I'm a miracle born with imperial features
I'm a page turner, sage burner, Santeria
Chango, December baby, Mauritius
Saint Hov, story takes place in ancient Egypt
They'll cut off the nose to spite the face, they'll steal ya Jesus
I can't tell Hattie White that blue-eyed virgin is make believe stuff
She throw me out the house, say ye deliver us from this heathen
I say that to Ms. Tina she'll sneeze at son, her photic reflex
They both have straightening combs, little did they know
I hold the heat next
Neither tool, can be used to fix our defects
P.S. we born perfect, fukk all the B.S
Everybody wanna be us for real, we just gotta see us
Insha'Allah

Might be "Shango" vs Chango but yeah, he blacked out
"Shango is viewed as the most powerful and feared of the orisha pantheon. He casts a "thunderstone" to earth, which creates thunder and lightning, to anyone who offends him."

edit: youre right about Chango

 

[newworldafro]

That production.

I need some other high caliber to flex on this track. Lyrics are cool as hell, but it's even more in there to extract.

"I'm a motherfuuckin Universal Soldier" [Instrumental]

 

[904]

Eyes firey, cry tears to my diary
Sometimes a xanny bar can't help you fight back the anxiety
I go to my "love" quietly, teardrops on our faces
Teardrops on my face like teardrops become waterfalls by the time they reach my laces
My eyelids is like levees but my tear ducts is like glaciers
'Cause I contemplate creation, the salt that heals my wounds
Pour out my eyes it's it's like libations

 

[Spree At Last]

APIDTA

 

[Lyrically_N_Gaged]

Jay Elect writes 7 jay z verses and jay z gets called goat again

 

[L. Deezy]

People are giving Jay-Z credit for verses that Electronica probably wrote.

Damn...

I swear Im listening to Jay Z like...did this nygga take a crash course on Islam 101

 

[BEN23]

Of course this thread will be full of Jay-Z hate...I get it

 

[T.he I.nformant]

Shiny suit theory

That shyt sound lovely within the context of the album. Don’t sound dated at all. Maybe was ahead of its time for me.

 

[DoubleClutch]

You lied. He was rapping like this all over life is good and the lost tapes 2. You are just in the recency bias.

Yea you’re right about Los tapes 2 but I’m talking about recent nas. Lost tapes 2 is older songs

 

[Standing on business]

Hov really is the goat


Hey this rap shyt is just too easy

 

[NormanConnors]

Good lord Cats over hyping the hell out of this

Should have known with elect producing most of this there would be some subpar/lazy beats/samples that have been flipped better

No ID had the best beat and it was average for him.

Em picked a better alch beat

Jigga sounding lost/out of place trying to spit god body shyt.

Album was probably made in 3 days

2.5/ 3 mics

 

[Pimpdaddy]

this shyt dropped huh