Jay Electronica "better in tune w the infinite" ft. LaTonya

[Dap]

https://soundcloud.com/cracktracks504/jay-electronica-better-in-tune

[observe911]

Dope..love the Honorable Elijah Muhammad intro

[Philaflava]

this dude trying to make some new music? sup with the "album is done" shit from 3 years ago?

[blastmaster]

Masturbatory waste of everyone's time. Put out some music or disappear.

[Homer Simpson]

[Dusty Fingers]

2014 - Spit Gemz
2035 - Jay Electronica

[Dap]

this dude trying to make some new music? sup with the "album is done" shit from 3 years ago?

this is track 8 from the album.



i heard the album really is done, people have heard it, but jay-z is sitting on it. but i don't know. i just want the fucking music.

[EMCEE DARTH MALEK]

yeah this is that john blaze shit heads been waiting for

[B. Ware tha Siniq]

In the context of the album, this would be barely passable filler.

In the context of a random soundcloud loosie where I can't stop myself from reading the idiotic comments of mindless stans saying things like "GOD HAS SPOKEN," and "PRAISE DUH TA ALLAH" and "THIS IS THE MOST BEAUTIFUL SONGS I'VE EVER HEARD," I can't help but wish death upon this idiot. Jay-Z probably shelved his album because it's full of garbage like this.

[observe911]

In the context of the album, this would be barely passable filler.

In the context of a random soundcloud loosie where I can't stop myself from reading the idiotic comments of mindless stans saying things like "GOD HAS SPOKEN," and "PRAISE DUH TA ALLAH" and "THIS IS THE MOST BEAUTIFUL SONGS I'VE EVER HEARD," I can't help but wish death upon this idiot. Jay-Z probably shelved his album because it's full of garbage like this.

Fuck outta here

[DJCommunist]

In the context of the album, this would be barely passable filler.

In the context of a random soundcloud loosie where I can't stop myself from reading the idiotic comments of mindless stans saying things like "GOD HAS SPOKEN," and "PRAISE DUH TA ALLAH" and "THIS IS THE MOST BEAUTIFUL SONGS I'VE EVER HEARD," I can't help but wish death upon this idiot. Jay-Z probably shelved his album because it's full of garbage like this.

Fuck outta here

no u

[ric]

WHOA
peace....peace
amazing
nice
havent been able to listen to anything else since this song came out

freal though is a pretty sweet song if you get rid of the 2 minute intro

[Dap]

WHOA
peace....peace
amazing
nice
havent been able to listen to anything else since this song came out

freal though is a pretty sweet song if you get rid of the 2 minute intro

yup

[thebohdan252]

Fire

Throwaway track still shits on the other 99%

[observe911]

Fire

Throwaway track still shits on the other 99%

It's not a throwaway track,,it's track 8 on the actual album

[Kace]

Has anyone posted this here before?

THE PRESTIGE, THE FIVE PERCENTERS, AND WHY JAY ELECTRONICA HASN’T RELEASED HIS DEBUT ALBUM
By Ryan Bassil



Update: Jay Electronica put out a new song last night (14/03/14). The name of the song matches with the Act II: Patents of Nobility (The Turn) tracklist that Jay Electronica shared on Twitter in July 2012.



It’s 2007, and Jay Electronica has just put out Act I: Eternal Sunshine (The Pledge). The 15 continuous minutes of music, without drums, built from Jon Brion’s soundtrack to the film Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, is a timeless classic. Idiosyncratically beautiful, the tape interspersed used samples from Charlie and The Chocolate Factory, spoken word, and an abstract rhyming style over orchestrated keys of ivory white and charcoal black.

It was aural haute couture. If you believed it, Jay Electronica, call him Jay ElecHannukah, Jay ElecRammadan, Muhammad A'salaamaleikum, was the deity that hip-hop had been waiting for. Even if you were atheist to the idea of a biblical rap icon, Jay Electronica perpetuated any worthwhile rap blog, heralded under the words: The Best Thing To Happen To Hip-Hop. In other words, he was fucking brilliant.

It’s 2013, and five years later, Jay Electronica hasn’t released another full-length. He’s had several singles, “Exhibit A” and “Exhibit C”, signed to Roc Nation, and received props from JAY Z – “Him as a lyricist is almost scary. He's scary good” – to Q-Tip, Nas, Diddy, and Erkyah Badu, with whom he has a child. But, still no album.

Understandably, for anyone with more than a casual interest in hip-hop, Act II: Patents of Nobility (The Turn) is the Holy Grail. Jay has tweeted on two occasions that the album is complete, once in 2011, and again, with a purposed tracklist, in July 2012. But, with no fixed release date, and a half-decade wait, anticipation for the record has reached both a fever point, and dismissal. Rap fans who believe that artists owe them something, rather than the other way round, have been demanding Jay release his record. But they’re slightly missing the point. It is meant to be a Holy Grail.

Let’s take into account the two titles for both records – (The Pledge) and (The Turn) – and contextualise them next to this quote from the film, The Prestige. Let Michael Caine explain.

“Every great magic trick consists of three parts or acts. The first part is called "The Pledge". The magician shows you something ordinary: a deck of cards, a bird or a man. He shows you this object. Perhaps he asks you to inspect it to see if it is indeed real, unaltered, normal. But of course... it probably isn't. The second act is called "The Turn". The magician takes the ordinary something and makes it do something extraordinary. Now you're looking for the secret... but you won't find it, because of course you're not really looking. You don't really want to know. You want to be fooled. But you wouldn't clap yet. Because making something disappear isn't enough; you have to bring it back. That's why every magic trick has a third act, the hardest part, the part we call "The Prestige"."

Jay Electronica loves films – remember, his first mixtape was built entirely upon the Eternal Sunshine soundtrack and movie samples – therefore it wouldn’t be ridiculous to suggest that he has built his career upon The Prestige. It’s fact that the first two album titles directly correlate to the above quote, with a third, reportedly titled Act III: The Last Will & Testament of Timothy Elpadaro Thedford (The Prestige), cementing the theory.


If we take the The Prestige theory into account, then Jay Electronica has already released his Pledge. Act I seemed ordinary, built upon a cult film soundtrack, but it wasn’t. It was special. Now, with the disappearance of its follow up, he has made “the ordinary something… do something extraordinary”, by generating a truckload of hype for something that doesn’t exist. Because it’s all part of an elaborate magic trick, if we follow the theory, the only way that the record can come out is with the conclusion, The Prestige. Once Act III is released as the culmination of the trick, it is only then, that Act II will make sense, or be discovered.

If we delve further into the album titles, then the theory can be further built upon. Timothy Elpadaro Thedford is Jay Electronica’s real name, and the title of the third act. This act, The Prestige, which is the conclusion of the magic trick, needs to be released in order to make the second act, The Turn, make sense. In simple terms, a magician can hold a coin, make it disappear, and reappear behind your ear. The first part, the coin, is The Pledge, and the reappearance is The Prestige. Once those two are in place, then if he chooses, the magician can explain the second act, the disappearance of the coin, The Turn. The album titles follow this theory. Once Act III: The Last Will & Testament of Timothy Elpadaro Thedford is released, it will give purpose to Act II: Patents of Nobility. A Patent of Nobility is the appointment of an aristocrat, and in this case, would refer to the re-birthing of Jay Electronica as a member of hip-hop’s high society. If we take into account the coin theory, then without the third part of the trick, the second act, The Turn, will not be tangible, because it cannot exist without its former and latter parts.

It’s easy to argue that this idea is reaching harder than a tiptoe teetering five-year old for the cookie jar. Jay has had a few featured tracks out in the past few years, all of which seem to be touched with glaucoma, a sort of unfocused haze. Maybe the reason Act II isn’t out yet is because it’s just not good enough. But they’re featured artist tracks, and they’re very separate. If anything, they’re keeping Jay Electronica’s name in the spotlight, assuring us that a follow up is imminent.

The religious references to deities and Holy Grail’s aren’t just scattered in here because Jay Electronica is the musical equivalent of a Christ-like-figure. Alongside being married to a Rothschild, he’s also a member of the Five Percent Nation, the religious group formed by Clarence 13X, a former student of Malcolm X. It's a movement that's been affiliated with hip-hop from the very beginning, coining lexicon from “ciphers”, to “dropping science” and influencing everyone from Big Daddy Kane, Rakim, Wu-Tang Clan, Brand Nubian and Nas.

With these artists, and any others associated with the Five Percenters, music was more than just a message. It was a metamorphose of the base elements of the Nation of Gods and Earth into the wisdom of song writing. It’s the reason why no one else, except Jay Electronica, has managed to capture the essence of The Golden Era since. If Jay Electronica subscribes to the hip hop ideals of The Five Percenters, then he’s going to put out his record when he’s ready, and realise his next vision as much more than a piece of throwaway music uploaded to the internet.


Jay Electronica was first featured as an unsigned artist in The Source almost ten years ago, and it’s clear that he isn’t constrained by time. In an interview with URB in 2008, he stated: “Most people wake up everyday and are worried about doing stuff based on time. I used to feel like I gotta do this, this and that before this time, but I don’t feel that way anymore.” Regardless of the hungry hip-hop heads who are convinced they’re dying of thirst (despite this year being an all-you-can-eat buffet of great releases), Jay doesn’t need to release his record any time soon. Not if anything else he releases is as timeless as Act I: Eternal Sunshine (The Pledge).

But in the five years that we’ve waited, the features this year – on “Control” and “Suplexes Inside of Complexes & Duplexes” – and scattered festival appearances suggest he’s slowly building up to something. If The Prestige theory is to be believed, then maybe we’re waiting for Act III, and Act II is already out there, somewhere. Hidden.

Follow Ryan on Twitter @RyanBassil

[Philaflava]

Sounds like a True Detective conspiracy theory. Reason he hasn't dropped is because he doesn't need to. He is marrying into one of the richest most powerful family in the history of the world. He basically never has to worry about anything for the rest of his life.

[seagrams hotsauce]

Thank heavens this loon descended from the mountain to deign us with another energyless, unfinished song that nerds like the one who wrote the above article will fawn over. Shit or get off the pot already.

[step one]

please say that Welcome To Knightsbridge isn't a genuine song title.

[Career Over Like Mike(NJJ)]

Memories are for faggetz and all, but I'll always cherish the time a bunch of people on this forum declared this guy "the most important rapper since Wu-Tang!"

[Piff Tannen]

that was a long song for such little rapping.

nice to hear some jay elec bars, regardless of the infrequency.

if the album cuts are all like that tho, ill pass, just give me a mixtape with 12 exhibit c remixes and ill be happy

that was more intro talking and singing than rapping

[B. Ware tha Siniq]

no seriously. The song is terrible.

[Dap]

no seriously. The song is terrible.

cool. but no.

[seagrams hotsauce]

It is though. Morose, overbearing strings and piano with an intro that's more or less irrelevant to the rest of the song, that same dumb applause sample to into his verse that he's been using for 7 years, a limp verse with no energy, some dumb singer tacked on. The shit is sub par at best and reeks of pretense. Fuck this guy.

[pluto 88]

listened to this all weekend. very good song, imo.

[Dids]

It is though. Morose, overbearing strings and piano with an intro that's more or less irrelevant to the rest of the song, that same dumb applause sample to into his verse that he's been using for 7 years, a limp verse with no energy, some dumb singer tacked on. The shit is sub par at best and reeks of pretense. Fuck this guy.

Pretty much exactly this.

If this really is just a mid album track, how the fuck do you throw that intro in there?

[EMCEE DARTH MALEK]

act 2 has been out since 2010. are you watching closely, departure, not a disturbance, prayer for vick & TI, levee's broke, extra extra.

[ardamus]

no seriously. The song is terrible.

we get it, you're a siniq. stop reminding us.

anyways, song is actually pretty cool for what it is. doesn't blow me away but its refreshing to hear something from this dude.
i agree with Gloss, Electronica pimped the game and doesn't have to worry about money for a while.
only reason he'd do it now is to keep his promise to the fanbase he built/still has.

[Dusty Fingers]

<<<<<<<<<----- Not a cynic

Song is fucking AWFUL

Anybody that gives a fuck about a Jay Electronica album with the likes of Jay Z and Kanye West is a full blown queer

[Piff Tannen]

jay hasn't pimped the game until hes married to that chick with no prenup. until then, hes still normal jay elec hannukah, who we still want to hear raps from. i just hope this isn't all we hear until like, 2015

what does badu think