Jay Electronica has returned with a brand new challenge referred to as A Written Testimony: Leaflets — take heed to it beneath.
Clocking in at simply seven songs, the shock challenge serves as a complement to the Roc Nation MC’s debut album A Written Testimony, which was launched in 2020 following a painfully lengthy look ahead to a full-length launch.
Leaflets options visitor appearances from Quentin Miller and DRAM, in addition to an intro from Diddy, marking the embattled mogul’s second on-wax cameo since his authorized ordeal following Kanye West‘s “Lonely Roads Nonetheless Go to Sunshine” earlier this 12 months.
In fact, Puff has been a longtime Jay Electronica supporter and unsuccessfully tried to lure him to Unhealthy Boy within the late 2000s after the breakout success of “Exhibit C.”
Regardless of the joy and frenzy {that a} new Jay Electronica challenge would usually create, Leaflets shouldn’t be a standard launch. An excellent chunk of its 29-minute working time is taken up by sampled audio clips rooted in Jay’s spiritual beliefs and conspiracy theories — starting from the existence of UFOs to skepticism over local weather change.
When he does grace the mic, nevertheless, it’s particular. On the bars-heavy “Abracadabra,” Jay Elec confidently declares: “Your complete trajectory of my profession screams ‘fuck the trade’ / But you’ll be able to’t have a debate in regards to the greats and never point out my title.” And “Japan Airline 1682,” which samples the indie rock band Holidays, finds Jay channeling his inside rock star — a curveball not even his day one followers would have anticipated.
One other memorable second comes on “4 Billion, 4 Hundred Million (4,400,000,000) / The Worst Is But To Come” when the New Orleans native hints at extra the place this got here from.
“Hov been such a brother to me and so affected person with me,” he spits, alluding to his irritating lack of normal output. “I gave him 19 albums in sooner or later and he ain’t even need to pay me.”
Does this imply extra new Jay Electronica is on the way in which?
Contemplating Act II: The Patents of The Aristocracy (The Flip), his legendary, long-lost album which leaked again in 2020, lastly hit streaming simply sooner or later in the past, it definitely looks like Jay Elec-Hanukkah is as much as one thing.
Stream A Written Testimony: Leaflets beneath.
