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JAY ELECTRONICA Album REVIEW


Surprise, Surprise and Surprise? We've been expecting a Jay Electronica album sooner than later, but 10 years late? C'Mon Son! Well worth it though. And could we just call this a Duet Album with HOVA? Let's just do that, okay.

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JAY ELECTRONICA (Parental Advisory)
"A Written Testimony" (10 Tracks)
Release date: March, 13, 2020  Length: 39:34
EXPLICIT

1. The Overwhelming Event Ft. Louis Farrakhan/ Producer: Jay Electronica
2. *Ghost Of Soulja Slim Ft. Jay-Z/ Producer: Jay Electronica
3. The Blinding Ft. Jay-Z & Travis Scott/ Producer: Swizz Beatz, AraabMuzik, HIT-BOY & G. Ry
4. The Neverending Story Ft. Jay-Z/ Producer: The Alchemist
5. *Shiny Suit Theory Ft. Jay-Z & The-Dream/ Producer: Jay Electronica
6. *Universal Soldier Ft. Jay-Z/ Producer: Jay Electronica
7. Flux Capacitor Ft. Jay-Z/ Producer: Jay Electronica
8. *Fruits Of The Spirit/ Producer: No I.D.
9. Ezekiel's Wheel Ft. Jay-Z & The-Dream/ Producer: Jay Electronica 
10. *A.P.I.D.T.A/ Producer: Khruangbin


In Bold: Favorite Tracks
With Asterisk: Rotation Songs in My Playlist

 My Grade For Album (Rate: 1 Lowest and 5 Highest)
Beats: 4.0
Lyrical Content: 5
Album Structure/Theme: 4.0

#REVIEW: 

 This album has an incredible message and it was needed just as much as the Royce Da 5'9 album that came out on 2/11/20. Go check out that Blog and YouTube review as well. This is a mature and sophisticated album, not because the gentlemen are older, but because of the content. YBN Cordae's "The Lost Boy" album is mature and he's only 22. Check him out as well. 

The album is like one BIG hip-hop quotable. These lyrical GIANTS are trading bars like their lives depended on it. They trading verses like Jadakiss (Blog & Youtube Review) and Styles P. If their lyrics were FOOD, we'd be full by track FIVE. Some of my favorite bars below. I'll just show two, but the album is pretty much all quotable.

 If you didn't have no straps, you couldn't wear your necklace
Niggas hand around your throat, that's a choker reference
My ancestors took old food, made soul food
Jim Crow's a troll too, he stole the soul music
That's the blood that goes through me, so you assumin'
I could never sell my soul, they sold they soul to me
Peaceful teaching of Rumi, but don't confuse me
You mouth off for the cameras, I make a silent movie - Jay-Z on Ghost of Soulja Slim

 Uh, I snap on the track like the fingers of Thanos
Como también nosotros perdonamos
A los que nos ofenden
It's all love, all Wimbledon with the pen, then
All I have in this world is my flag and my sword
I'm on a battlefield with the flag of my Lord
My shahāda is my cantada
My heart chakra light up when I make sajdah at fajr
Padre nuestro, que estás en El Cielo
Our heavenly father
Like Vince Staples said, we just wadin' in the water
My people out in Flint still bathin' in the slaughter
ICE out here rippin' families apart at the border
Satan struck Palestine with yet another mortar
Lies from the reporters
Ass shots and stripper poles for the eyes of my daughter, hm
Swing low sweet chariot, my train is on schedule
But I had to take the Underground Railroad like Harriet - Jay-E on Fruits of the Spirit
The album starts off with a great message we ALL needed to here my the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan. And Mr. Farrakhan continues more knowledge on the beginning of one of my favorite joints the "Ghost Of Souja Slim. If you listen to the beat, it has a Griselda feel, especially with the gun sounds. Those same gun sounds reappear on track 6, "Universal Solder, which is another banger. And RIP Souja Slim. And RIP everyone who has lost someone recently, including our famous STARS. 

Speaking of Stars, it's rumored that Jay-Z and Jay-E (NEW NICK NAME ALERT!) wrote A.P.I.D.T.A (All Praise Is Due To Allah) the same day Kobe and Gianna and others had that tragic helicopter accident. It's a soothing track that is actually therapeutic. It sounds like a Royce beat, but Khruangbin produced this melodic tune. It's a great song to end a great record. It actually makes you want to re-re-wind or start over for the young bucks reading this. 

Yes, the album was released on Friday the 13th. And if you believe in Friday the 13th bad luck theories, this album will reverse your thought process. With Kobe (Jay-Z) and Lebron (Jay-E) on the court, coronavirus couldn't STOP their season (Flow). Shout out to the families that are effected by this terrible WORLD situation. Let's PRAY it gets better soon. We need more music like this to get us through these times. 

 I swear 2020's Hip-Hop catalog is on FIRE right now. Check out my other reviews. And I only review albums with spitters on them. That's people that can rhyme. SPITTERS ONLY!

I'm rating this album a 4.33 MICS. This is going off the 5 MIC system, "TheSource" Magazine use to do. I believe if I just listen just to the BARS on this album, it would be a FIVE mic #Classic. Not that the production wasn't killer. Jay Electronica produced most of the album and he is dope. If people are not already hitting him up for BEATS, they will now. Other producers were, No I.D., The Alchemist, Swizz Beatz, HIT-BOY, Araab Muzik, Khruangbin and G. Ry. They put some flavor on this album for sure, but I'd like to see Mr. Electronica produce his entire next project. I'm putting it into the existence. 

This project is Incredible. Still early to tell if it could be a #classic or a top TEN contender for my TOP 20 Hip-Hop albums of 2020, but it's gangsta leaning that way. This year there will be so much competition. You wait and see. 

The highlights of this project are it's needed right now and forever. The content is educational so lyrically incline, this will definitely be on repeat. And only having 10 tracks didn't make this album short in content, it made it just right like the porridge in Goldilocks and the Three Bears. 

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Marquis J. Walker
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