At that moment I wanted to do something that I felt was more aggressive and he He was playing the synth chords and I didn’t like it at first. We were in the studio inĭetroit with my brother DJ TJ the King and he started laying theįoundation. So it wasn’t like we set out to do music. This one, we actually stumbled on this, we actually made this one in 15 Let’s get a window into your creative process of how you go about doing things. Tell us a little bit about the process of making this particular record, how long it took you to write. That’s a song called “Exhibit A: Transformations.” ( music: Jay Electronica – “Exhibit A (Transformations)” / applause) “Official” being a kind of weird term these days, but we thought that we might play something just to get things started, and this isīy request from Jay Electronica himself. Ironically enough, he has many songs but only a couple of official songs. Would you say that is accurate or not? I’ll say that that’sĪccurate. But anyway, this gentleman is probably the most talked about hip-hop artist to emerge in the Wanted to come for two weeks, but he told me I couldn’t. But I really like the feel of what’s going here, I was walking around thinking this is the shit. I asked him if I could apply, but he said I couldn’t. Here for two weeks to be creative and think about only creative things. I’m trying to explain to him that it is a project where we have folks from all over the world working on music, like-minded, and they’re basically Jay just walked into the building and he knows really nothing about this whole thing or what we’reĭoing. Well, why be nervous? Everybody’s friendly here. You are here for shows, obviously, and it is very exciting for you, right? Are you alright? Don’t be nervous. In his 2010 Red Bull Music Academy lecture, Jay joined us to talk about his New Orleans upbringing, his sporadic releases, his mystique and more. The MySpace leak of “Act 1: Eternal Sunshine (The Pledge),” a 15-minute opus laced with movie samples and beatless film soundtracks, represented the beginning of an astounding surge of interest in both the man and his music back in 2007. Since then, the New Orleans-born MC and producer has garnered heavy support from everybody from Nas to Gilles Peterson, and has worked heavily with soulslinger Just Blaze, dropping two instant neo-backpack classics, “Exhibit A” and “Exhibit C.” He also partnered with New York-based “idea studio” Decon, working on his debut album as well as a video project with label founder Jason Goldwatch, and built more anticipation around his “Act II” track than the rest of hip-hop's class of ’10 combined. The effect of his quirky, emotional sound was compounded by the erratic methods of its release, drifting out unannounced via the internet. When I was sleepin' on the train Sleepin' on Meserole Ave out in the rain Without even a single slice of pizza to my name Too proud to beg for change, mastering the pain When New York ****** was calling southern rappers lame But then jacking our slang I used to get dizzy spells, hear a little ring The voice of a angel telling me my name Telling me that one day I'ma be a great mane Transforming with the Megatron Don, spittin' out flames Eating wack rappers alive, shittin' out chains ( Woo!) I ain't believe it then *****, I was homeless ( Uh huh) Fightin', shootin' dice, smokin' **** on the corner Trying to find the meaning of life in a Corona 'Til the Five Percenters rolled up on a ***** and informed him: "You either build or destroy, where you come from?" "The Magnolia projects in the 3rd Ward slum" "Hmm, it's quite amazing that you rhyme how you do And that you shine like you grew up in a shrine in Peru" ( Ooh!) Question Fourteen, Muslim Lesson Two: Dip-dive-uh, civilize a eighty-five-uh I make the devil hit his knees and say the "Our Father" Abracadabra, you rocking with the true and living Shout out to Lights Out, Joseph I, Chewy Bivens Shout out to Baltimore, Baton Rouge, my crew in Richmond While y'all debated who the truth was like Jews and Christians I was on Cecil B.Jay Electronica swept onto the hip-hop scene in a wave of enigma.
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