Jay Electronica - A Written Testimony: (Multiple Albums release?)

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Amestafuu (Emeritus) said:
so how do you support artists?

i hear this argument all the time but it's usually an excuse old heads who don't fukk with streaming use. they don't support anything either or buy anything or go to shows but want more and more music
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Merch and nowadays half of these nikkas stream on something, you can donate directly to them.

I'm not an old nikka and I prefer downloading because like we've seen in this thread DSP's can take shyt down or change versions of songs instantly, and I like dropping shyt in ableton and making edits myself.

+ alot of the more interesting music can't even get released on there due to sample clearances (I heard this was a big reason Jay Elec projects have a hard time being released, you got beat samples AND he's sampling speeches from people and movies, costs the label alot of money they know he cant generate back)


Too many hands are in the artists pockets when it comes to album sales and we BEEN known it's like that. They are not getting the bulk of their personal bread from there. You really just helping them recoup to the label + interest, not funding their lifestyle.


Also if anyone cares Spotify is the one that pays artist the most
 
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Walt said:
Yes, none of this is news. My uncle is FOI. Nothing about being down with the Nation absolves anyone of being a bozo, and Jay is demonstrably that. Today's Mathematics don't align with him going on countless booze-fueled bozo twitter rants, breaking up a marriage to be with a literal Rothschild, and supporting and working with men of immoral character. Nor does his 18 millionth verse that blends musings about the holiness of the honey bee and ancient civilizations while decrying modern technology and rebuking the devil make for much other than repetitive ramblings of a hip hop conman who turned out to be a one-trick pony. Yet another sample of UFO testimony, this one even more recent and less compelling or thematic. An intro from a lifelong scumbag sociopath vile cuck from prison doesn't really enhance his mystique or clarify his purpose as an artist. Sampling Ronald Reagan for the intro to a song about the inherent and neglected beauty of life is, as the kids are fond of saying, a choice.

He's a hip hop used car salesman who is doing a negro superstition version of Chicken Soup for the Soul. And if people like it, cool. All I'm expressing - as someone who was listening to all his shyt from Day One and was genuinely intrigued by the mystery he'd built up and the sheen of spirituality that marked the early songs - is that we're nearly two decades in, and he's a fraud. He went from observing ceremonies outside of Nepalese temples to having puff ad libs on his first major single, to ghostwriting for pop rappers to doing collaborations with a self-hating fake Christian doofus. Back when he was first touting the prestige and the turn, we didn't realize the real magic trick was, as Keyser Söze said, the devil convincing us he didn't exist. Jay Elec was the devil he rebuked all along. He sells the teachings and the science like neat fortune cookies to a public starving for "meaningful rap." And even then, it's a an "album" with only like 4 new verses of the same old lame old rehashed gobbledygook. This time around with a lot more Juvie played up in his accent. He's a nikka with weird teeth and an alligator face who sells you on Jumu'ah, while his most obvious religion is staying in proximity to wealth and power. I never thought he'd be so fukkin boring.
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I only came in here to see if Drunktronica's EPs were worth listening (not listening to the ACT II cause I know that shyt is probably still unfinished as fukk) I was not expecting a short thesis ether on Scam Tronica

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Braman said:
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The content of this album is so rich man. I can’t take any ngga that don’t fw Jay elec serious.
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The magic of using Jays mystical hotep powers as background music for an 11 mile trail run is leaving my place with a small nug of weed to puff before heading out into the depths and coming back with a 2 gram fly agaric red cap mushroom :ahh:

Bring on the other 15 albums :blessed:
 
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summwunn said:
...Dad Did Better . . .

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I tacked this on to the beginning of my new JayElec playlist on Tidal...Dad paved the Yellow Brick Road for Jay to drunkenly stumble upon while we await Act 3

No sign of vinyl release, a signed CD which would've got me excited in 2002 :manny:
 
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