His most recent music as of November 2008 is the Just Blaze-produced track "Exhibit A (Transformations)". URB also reported that digital EPs with both Guilty Simpson and producer 9th Wonder were planned.
#JAY ELECTRONICA WIFE SERIES#
He toured North America with Nas, and was part of the Rock The Bells International Festival Series in 2008.Īccording to URB, Act II: Patents of Nobility will feature Nas, and will be the second of a putative trilogy. Nas describes him as having provided "the Jay Electronica sound". Jay Electronica provides the music for the album's opening track, "Queens Get the Money". He gave Nas a CD of his recordings, causing Nas to invite him to produce for the album. 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.Įlectronica met Nas during the recording of Nas' Untitled, through Badu's friendship with Nas' wife, Kelis. 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. 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 2008 called him "arguably.the most talked about new emcee last year. In January 2008, Giles Peterson's 90-minute Giles Peterson Worldwide was devoted to the rapper. Style Wars gained wider circulation, and other tracks, such as the dream-inspired "Dimethyltryptamine", 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 15 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. Originally from the Magnolia Projects in New Orleans, Louisiana, U.S.A., he has lived in Atlanta, Baltimore, Philadelphia, Washington DC, Denver, and Detroit, where he recorded his Style Wars EP with several J Dilla beats, meeting the producer subsequently to ask for permission to use the recordings as a demo. 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). Signed to Badu's Control Freaq Records, Electronica is yet to release an album or single. He is perhaps best known for the piece of music Act 1: Eternal Sunshine (The Pledge). The unconventional nature of much of his music, and the lack of conventional release methods for that music, have since 2007 made him the object of much attention.
He produced the first track, "Queens Get the Money", on the 2008 Nas album Untitled.
circa 1977) is a rapper and producer known for his use of percussionless film soundtracks as a background for his abstract lyrical style, and his associations with Erykah Badu, Just Blaze and Nas.
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