Weekly, “Jay Electronica: Much Better Than His Name Would Suggest”, acknowledged that the rapper could be fairly described as “one of the most buzzed about rappers of 2008”, but attempted to temper the hype somewhat, describing Act 1… as “ambitious, wildly original, if not slightly pretentious”, while endorsing only to an extent the comparisons URB had made (referencing an “abstract rhyming style”) to rappers like Nas and Pharoahe Monch.Īccording to URB, Act II: Patents of Nobility will feature Nas, and will be the second of a putative trilogy. in 2008 called him “arguably…the most talked about new emcee last year … at times…more like a myth or urban legend than an actual rapper”, and URB ran a cover story on the artist under the banner “Jay Electronica: A Spotless Mind:: An MC’s mystery revealed”, which referred to his wanderings as his being “like some sort of hip-hop Jack Kerouac”. In January 2008, Gilles Peterson’s 90-minute Gilles Peterson Worldwide was devoted to the rapper. Songs circulating online as the Style Wars EP gained wider circulation, and other songs, such as the dream-inspired “Dimethyltryptamine”, soon appeared. The nature of the piece of music, along with the nature of its appearance, led to a slow build-up of interest in Electronica as an enigmatic figure. The first segment is spoken word by Just Blaze and Erykah Badu describing the artist over piano music.
There are five segments or movements, marked by changes in music and mood, raps by Electronica, and occasional snippets of sampled dialogue (children arguing in Kurdish, Gene Wilder as Willy Wonka). It is 9:13 continuous minutes of music, without drums, built from Jon Brion’s soundtrack to the film Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. Jay Electronica first gained significant attention through Act 1: Eternal Sunshine (The Pledge), made available on a MySpace page in 2007. Porter, and who is now a regular collaborator. Detroit is where Electronica met producer/engineer Mike “Chav” Chavarria, who introduced him to both J Dilla and Mr. From New Orleans, LA he has lived in Baltimore, Philadelphia, Washington, D.C., Denver, and Detroit, where he recorded his Style Wars-era music with several J Dilla beats, meeting the producer subsequently to ask for permission to use the recordings as a demo. Erykah Badu has questioned whether he ever will release, in her words, “actual albums”. His music so far has been made available through the internet, either through being leaked to what URB magazine describes as “obscure web forums”, or through an appearing and disappearing MySpace page (currently two seem to be in existence, at /jayelect and at /jayelectronica).
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Jay Electronica has yet to release a full-length album but has released two official singles to date, “Exhibit A” and “Exhibit C,” which won a Sucker Free Summit Award for Instant Classic. Announced Friday, November 12, 2010, Jay is an official member of Jay-Z’s Roc Nation. He was perhaps best known for the piece of music Act 1: Eternal Sunshine (The Pledge), until the release of the Just Blaze-produced track “Exhibit C” in late 2009.
The unconventional nature of much of his music, and the lack of conventional release methods for that music, has since 2007 made him the object of much attention. He produced the first track, “Queens Get the Money”, on the 2008 Nas album ‘Untitled’. He originates from from the Magnolia Projects in New Orleans, Louisiana. Timothy Elpadaro Thedford, better known by his fans as Jay Electronica, is an American rapper born on September 19, 1976.
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