The CONTROVERSIAL Story of Jay Electronica
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 8 ก.พ. 2025
- Jay Electronica has a very confusing legacy. For a time he seemed more like a myth instead of an actual person. At one point he was being propped up to be the savior of hip-hop. But after all that hype that was built, he didn’t manage to release an album for almost a decade.
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Link to videos used:
(Jay Electronica Roadside Freestyle in Nepal)
• Jay Electronica Roadsi...
(Jay Electronica in Nepal "Dimethyltryptamine" (final edit))
• Jay Electronica in Nep...
(Jay Electronica - Universal Soldier feat. Jay-Z (Music Video))
• Jay Electronica - Univ...
(Jay Electronica: Dear Moleskine. (prod. by Just Blaze))
• Jay Electronica: Dear ...
(Jay Electronica - Abracadabra (Official Video) Directed by Jason Goldwatch)
• Jay Electronica - Abra...
(Jay Electronica-Abracadabra Freestyle)
• Jay Electronica-Abraca...
(A Conversation with Jay Electronica)
• A Conversation with Ja...
(JAY ELECTRONICA X JASON GOLDWATCH - Into the light [Snippet] (DOCUMENTARY))
• JAY ELECTRONICA X JASO...
(Evolution of America 1917 - 2017 | 100 years of culture & politics)
• Evolution of America 1...
(Jay Z with Jay Electronica and Just Blaze - Exhibit C - Live at Terminal 5 in NYC May 17, 2015)
• Jay Z with Jay Electro...
(Jay Electronica Performs Exhibit C live at 2017 NBA All Star Weekend)
• Jay Electronica Perfor...
(Jay Electronica - A.P.I.D.T.A. - London (live performance))
• Jay Electronica - A.P....
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(JAY ELECTRONICA - ACT II - (16) 10,000 LOTUS PEDALS)
• JAY ELECTRONICA - ACT ...
(J A Y E L E C T R O N I C A - Dear Moleskine)
• J A Y E L E C T R O N...
(JAY ELECTRONICA - ACT II - (6) DINNER AT TIFFANY'S)
• JAY ELECTRONICA - ACT ...
(JAY ELECTRONICA ACT II -(2) NEW ILLUMINATI)
• JAY ELECTRONICA ACT II...
(JAY ELECTRONICA - ACT II - (15) RUN & HIDE FEAT.THE BULLITTS)
• JAY ELECTRONICA - ACT ...
(Jay Electronica - The Architect - The Awakening [2000] (Track 1))
• Jay Electronica - The ...
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I’m honestly still rooting for Jay Elec to this day. A Written Testimony got a lot of hate but that album is incredible.
incredible is a reach ...it was decent but not worth waiting over a decade for 😂
Its a solid album but Act II is so much betterand should've been dropped instead
The album is and was incredible
Both of those albums had a lot of "fluff" to pad out the unfinished ideas.
Grammy nominated
I remember the morning I found out Act II was leaked and equipped with a link. I neglected everything I had to do that morning to listen and I did not regret it. For it to not have been finished or cleaned up. One of the greatest pieces of music ever
Anyone asking the reasoning and lore around Jay Elec are not from the generation. He was super talented as a writer, wiser beyond his age, a culmination of his travels, and respected by hip hop heads. Jay was the guy that blew you away in your first listen and drew you in. 2000-2010 had a ton of hip hop babies. Remember these are the fans of 80s and 90s rappers which have tagged the “Golden Era”. You gotta be in the know to know
He wanted to be the black Indiana Jones from the NOI with Jungle Fever and that’s what he became. Let that man live!
Been hooked on him since Exhibit C. Only a genius can pen that.
“Hope one of y’all is feeling me/ Some of y’all gotta wait til the Final Act of the Trilogy to Get it…”🧐🔮✨
Great video. Still think the best is yet to come as far as Jay Elec.
In a decade from now, if he releases something, I what to be the first to hear it period.
Not too many knew that Jay Electronica and Killah Priest were supposed to do an album together years ago….. 🤷🏽
Great job on the video, very informative on the man, the myth, and the legend.
if you made that intro (first 3 1/2 minutes), BRAVO. that shit was dope asf. im not talking about the rap. I knw that was J Elec. im just saying the visuals with the genesis verse over it. It was really good
I have his “Victory” mixtape as one of my faves ever but you see it is his greatness that made that “The written testimony” album such a disappointment because it felt like a Jay Z featuring Jay Electronica album.
I didn’t want to hear Jay Z, I just wanted to hear Jay Electronica giving me bars over beats as good as or better than Exhibit A & C.
The mad thing is Just Blaze has tracks in the vault he did with him that we haven’t heard. Just Blaze said this himself!! A whole album’s worth! There are even unreleased tracks produced by Just Blaze with Yasiin Bey (fka Mos Def) they were thinking of being a group!! 😭😢
I'm convinced he is an anunnaki. Dude is waaay to ahead of his time
Exhibit c is still one of my top 5 rap songs ever
I remember everyone doing exhibit c freestyles and everyone sayin he was gonna be next …I waited for his first album and wasn’t disappointed
jus recently i was watching a lot about him and that exhibit c track was on repeatttt
Still is!!!🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾🥰🥰🥰🥰
@@Nothingatall1984exhibit b with mos def is the best one
@@idipped2521 never heard of it, I’m gonna go listen 🥰
Thank for covering this man in depth 🙏
Great video man. He’s a living legend in my eyes 🤲🏿💯
Great video as usual 🔥🔥
Exhibit C is still one of the greatest tracks to make it!!! Top 20 track for me 🤷🏽♂️
Still one of my favorite rappers. If I had to choose a rapper to spit the hardest verse to save my life I would choose him.
Facts 💯
Great vid thought I was tapped in but I learned hella shit, it's unreal that exhibit a got initially recorded for like a guitar center promo accordin to just blaze, the goat man
thanks man.this is dope
Can you do the story behind a classic of Lifestylez ov da poor and dangerouz
Where is the clipse video bro?
Real ones will remember Holiday ft Mos Def 🔥 too bad never officially released
He needs to officially drop Act 2. I’ll buy the vinyl. Act 3 would be great and he could retire and I’ll be satisfied
He was Five Percent Nation first and was converted by some brothers preaching on the street in Atlanta. He became NOI later on in life.
Need one on Capital Steeze
Yo! Can I make a request. Would love to see an in depth look at Dom Kennedy!!!!!
I like to say Nas at his best was the pinical but truth be told that's cause it was the 90's but it was probably least then 10 verses..Jay Elect never came short...blew my brain every time
Wild Magnolia, mother of many soldiers
He's awesome I'm from Monroe but I live in Arizona but every time I think a day and electronica and his talent I think Eric Badu and how she changes men, their daughter is a beautiful young lady
💯 🌟 Very informative Thank you
Moves to the beat of his own drum..like no other
Think we’ll ever get Act III?
Idk honestly. If Bismallah Boys is truly his next project name then I’m not sure
I have never ever heard his name brought up before during any music conversation ever.
Personally I never saw anything Jay Electronica ever did never listened to him do not know one classic song and can not see how all this happened around me doing music this entire time but hey to each his own. I have personally worked with 1000s of artists and nobody ever brought this guy up ever I wish though and man you got a lot of passion for this guy. So odd though not one radio or tv moment worth noting but all that hype.
Thank you for this documentation of a true Master, but any opinions about the what and why of who he is as a human being can not be fruitful and is irrelevant to his artistry. Someone with great skill can hit a bullseye every single time but a genius hits a target no one else can see.
"Who gon spit dat ramon on the train tracks....." - Jay Electronica 🔥 🔥 🔥
first minute of the video i already smashed the like button
Music for chapter 3intro?
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@@cloutcancunwhat joint starts around 2:14?
@@Paranormal718 new Illuminati
It’s not just a big 3 in hip hop. Jay Electronica makes it 4
No
no, but he could’ve
He doesn't drop enough.
Jay a Nomad. Rap is just a chick he smashes on when he lands back in America.
Im sorry but a man from the magnolia projects messing with a rothschild was hard asf !! Talk about sticking it to the wo(man) 😂😂😂 26:06
What is the name of the song that starts the video?
10,000 lotus petals
Act2 need to be on streaming services and vinyl
7:47 Tapping in from West Bmore if you can make it here you can make it anywhere
Very heavily underrated
It would be weird for Jay to do an album with his baby mama’s other baby daddy
Exhibit A and C are 2 of the illest joints ever. Always first up in my youtube mix. How a fumucka sample gene wilder and still be ill af?
Jay is an all round genius… and a lyricist. A scholar with the bars and subjects Mash’Allah
Been a Jay fan scenes 2007
Bro opened this video like he Ang Lee
What The F**K Is a Jay Electronica is one of the best mixtapes/albums , ever. His albums are cool too.
That Bonnie and Clyde is that ish.
December 22, 2009 = Exhibit C
I remember being a freshman in high school when I heard Exhibit A & C and thinking that this dude was THE FUTURE!
Insane to think that he not only squandered any opportunity he had to be in the KanYe West (don’t @ me)/Kendrick Lamar/ J. Cole GOAT conversation in terms of consistency & longevity…but at least he didn’t just drop after 12-13 years then go away forever 🤷🏽♂️
I was looking at another video when you said you shot up at the new and cameron, that might be true but you shut up because you're one of the best journalism, TH-cam as I've ever seen and I have to check youtubers with a million subscribers from using your voice and content and calling the reaction.
You ARE THE BUSINESS 💯 GOD BLESS YOU AND YOUR FAMILY AND KEEP THEM COMING
He's my favorite
Just came here to tell people that actually jay electronica has more music out than what biggie did release in his lifetime which fans regard him as the greatest of all time.
Yeah but biggie was also taken away from us early so I feel like a big part of the goat argument for biggie is hypothetical, even tho he does have 2 certified classics
Would it be the same case if 50 cent died after the massacre? Because his first two albums classics too. You got get rich or die trying and the massacre
31:12 youre right it was on TIDAL (thanks to law.. i think?) and it was soon taken off
You left out the part where Jay signed to Mr. Porter. He was his artist. He was a Shady Records affiliate. He was D-12s bag boy and would run errands go pick up weed or food for them. He was jealous of Eminem and his impatient ass left Detroit to side with Benzino smdh ruining his career. Here we’re in 2025. He’s a nobody with two horrible albums. One was basically a Rpe Z album. His only friends are Rpe Z and the Dids. He tried to threaten EEminem and Royce responded back with a tweet and Jay deleted his Twitter. His best songs are his snippets on TH-cam with Mr. Porter.
Jay Electronica = Rap Biggest Let Down(Honestly a great artist but sucks at consistency) its really sad
I came out the Magnolia like the beetle ⚡️⚡️
Jay Elec Iz Tapped In. He moves on his own time. Peace
Yo this dude lowkey sound like Jay electronica if he was way younger lol
This the same man who said kendrick wasnt nice?
You forgot the mos def x curren$y and jay collab 18:04
He looked right in that F.O.I suit
He was the only man who could battle lupe and might win
Jay Elec looks like the battle rapper DNA
If jay didnt have anxiety issues we probably wouldve got it sooner.. jay is really shy asf 31:19
Universal Soldier was the track.. love you bro
Jays the greatest artist ever in rap.. QUANTITY doesnt equal QUALITY.. And what Jay has is PURE quality, like even I remember when he said Dot want to be him and as a fan of both i said "nah".. But as I heard Dot say im not your savior on mister morale for some reason Jay popped up in my mind...
When the Drake and Dot beef was over i listen to all of Jays work and relized "Damn.. His old music better than most of thier new music"...
The message and just "aura" of EVERY SINGLE SONG from Jay just cant be matched.. The fact hes even has a little amount of music but in comparision to the others yet MANY will still make the debate is proof of how good that quality is..
why do you think he signed to jay-z, seemed like it all went down hill after
@@rajshah7984 He’s a great artist.. It doesn’t equate to a good businessman exactly though..
Tbh Jay also wasnt as good in anything outside of the music itself.. When speaking publicly he stammers a lot, and forgets his place with the topic.. He’s not able to speak publicly as well as he can on a song.. Tbh his interviews seemed almost like it was the reverse of himself on a beat.. Really uncomfortable..
So his lack of ability to connect with people outside of the music when interacting hurt him.. But I think hes an introvert so being social kinda just isn’t his thing imo..
I see all the things he missed at and admit it but again just if we sticking to him making music alone he’s probably the best..
@@KTdaLibertian i personally think the industry conspired behind the scenes to stop him dropping music, maybe he didnt want to participate in the rituals or something or the other
@@rajshah7984 I know to some effect that’s true especially after the Rothschild stuff.. But I think it’s an accumulation of things that allowed him to get put in that position.. If he would’ve done the smart move and stay independent and seized his opportunity he could’ve led us into revolution musically..
Maybe YOUR FAVORITE….but Nowhere near “greatest artist ever” in HipHop ”……that’s a wild exaggeration
Well.. it takes Billions of years to create a Diamond 🔹 Naturally so waiting a Decade for an Album is being generous
Exhibit A and exhibit C stay in my gym mix.
Intro fire. Rose pedals.
Legend 💯 ❤️🔥
Hehehe he said “put it in diddy’s hands himself” ayo😊
The first I heard about drugs
THE GOAT HERDER
Erykah be Bagging them rappers. Lol😂
I’m ngl I was about to turn it off at first that intro been mad long pause
The Exhibit trx are dope. But you need to go listen to MF Doom & then circle back to J. You'll see what I mean
Jay, Thought, Mos on a track!!!!
Idolatry is what he's committing
Wasted potential he could have competed with Lupe
I don't understand all the fuss. Like what's so special about his dude?
sorry i aint got the answer im thinking the same and want someone else to reply😂
I would say watch the video to see. Many people (including me) think he’s quite interesting. Has all the talent in the world but didn’t drop an album for almost a decade.
Basically drops a collab album with Jay-Z and then his album he was supposed to drop in 2011 gets leaked and it’s a masterpiece (IMO).
There’s a lot of other things I talk about in the video regarding his story but it’s really bizarre to say the least
He was the man that was suppose to save rap in the late 2000s until he got lazy and Kendrick took the throne
he jus mysterious in general too carrying that mythical ahh presence w hella wisdom and of course talent too
@@cloutcancun thanks for actually explaining im at work and cant watch😂🙏
Why do the best rappers always just lie for no reason and be annoying
Anunaki flow
First
Bismillah boys
nothing more sad then waisted talent smh
not your best intro bruh 🤦🏽♂️
U buggin
Hardest intro
@@TrapNextDoor just wanna go straight to the video 🙄
Tell this man to come back to Christ. The true living God.
That’s interesting! Shall we be friends?