Albums Jay Electronica - A Written Testimony (Discussion Thread)

[DoubleClutch]

I just wanna know how Travis Scott gets a feature but they couldn’t throw Nas on the last 40 secs of Universal Soldier

 

[Conscious Pilot]

Shiny Suit Theory fit in perfectly on this.

 

[SnowflakesByTheOZ]

You searching for daps bruh you ain't received one yet but I'm going to give you one

I posted it because it was an interesting take and it's good for dialogue.

But yeah you a weird nikka for going to his Twitter to post his picture because you disagree.

fukk that you is weird no Daps

Negged for posting nikkas pictures because you got in your feels over a take

shut up

 

[amare68]

god damn they shut it down

 

[WhoShotCha]

I keep saying that he’s the GOAT no joking

and I’m a head not a fly by night mumblerap fanboy.

He brings:
content

delivery

voice

lyricism

wit

hidden gems

Plus this album is deep af it’s like a manifesto for the future and his future career

and Jay Z is on it like a master working out with the student who will surpass the master

I really don't think it's a debate. Nas at his best is in the ballpark, but I honestly feel like no man in rap has been better with words than Elec. He's saying the most profound shyt in the most poetic ways possible. It's Shakespearean. I know multiple people who say they cry when they listen to some of his stuff, especially Better In tune W/ the Infinite.

 

[Billy Ocean]

I really don't think it's a debate. Nas at his best is in the ballpark, but I honestly feel like no man in rap has been better with words than Elec. He's saying the most profound shyt in the most poetic ways possible. It's Shakespearean. I know multiple people who say they cry when they listen to some of his stuff, especially Better In tune W/ the Infinite.

 

[FlyRy]

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[Waterproof]

shut up

Beat It Cocksucka! And those fakkits who dapped you

 

[CaughtInTWebb]

Any truth to them writing APITA after Kobe’s death?

 

[ThaEruditious]

Finishing off my 2nd playthrough...

APIDTA still got me like

Ghost of Soulja Slim, The Blinding (especially after the beat switch), Universal Soldier, Flux Capacitor, Ezekiel's Wheel, APIDTA are my fave tracks thus far.

 

[bigdaddy88]

after another full listen, GREAT LYRICAL HEAT but still flawed by "weak production" and some tracks were not mixed well a bit muddy......maybe that is what they were going for

 

[Stez]

Uh, I snap on the track like the fingers of Thanos
Como también nosotros perdonamos
A los que nos ofenden
It's all love, all Wimbledon with the pen, then
All I have in this world is my flag and my sword
I'm on a battlefield with the flag of my Lord
My shahāda is my cantada
My heart chakra light up when I make sajdah at fajr
Padre nuestro, que estás en El Cielo
Our heavenly father
Like Vince Staples said, we just wadin' in the water
My people out in Flint still bathin' in the slaughter
ICE out here rippin' families apart at the border
Satan struck Palestine with yet another mortar
Lies from the reporters
Ass shots and stripper poles for the eyes of my daughter, hm
Swing low sweet chariot, my train is on schedule
But I had to take the Underground Railroad like Harriet
Weave the whole industry, every jab I've parried it
My cross I carried it
My crown of thorns to cavalry from Nazareth
The orbit was too wide to calculate the azimuth
The journey was technically unexplainable, hazardous
Rise, young gods, all paths lead to Lazarus
The dry bones that lifted up from the valley dust
The prayers of the slaves are the wings that carry us
A field full of dreams is where they tried to bury us (Bury us)



I could leave this on repeat all year and not get bored of it

 

[tuckgod]

I was skeptical at first because "Jigga", but so far this shyt feels like OB4CL with gems being sold instead of drug tips. This is the album that we really NEED right now in the mist of junkie rappers, conscious rappers being on a revolutionary Twitter tip, and the entire community being all over the fukking place instead of forward

Shiny Suit Theory:

Repped

 

[tuckgod]

Khruangbin

 

[N711oir]

My thoughts.......


1st / off it's a given we live in a fast food culture

we used to as a people/ sit down and ear 4 course meals/ meaning it takes time to digest/ you spend time and bond/ this was a piece not for fast food minds/ but for the latter...

I really didn't know what to expect


I don't know if this was the actual intended goal/ peoples response/ of if they intended to just, for instance some games in NFL you didn't crush your opponent you just maintained the game and didn't loose

another apt analogy.... Although all-star games have multi all star players how many all star games you remember

they basically out there not trying to get hurt


Not hatting


it's a solid project


and to those questioning Hov on every song/ Forget the true meaning of Elohim in Hebrew....is plural for "Gods"


It's just the Gods talking


It was a mental / lyrical museum

It all explains Kanye's recent venture into the blue eyed christ

He's got a real Hov complex

but with Jay Elec's well publicized relationship with islam/ ye figured i'll side with the devil




But good first lap listen.....

will revisit again and again