Perhaps he asks you to inspect it to see if it is indeed real, unaltered, normal. The magician shows you something ordinary: a deck of cards, a bird or a man. “Every great magic trick consists of three parts or acts. Let’s take into account the two titles for both records – (The Pledge) and (The Turn) – and contextualise them next to this quote from the film, The Prestige. Rap fans who believe that artists owe them something, rather than the other way round, have been demanding Jay release his record.
But, with no fixed release date, and a half-decade wait, anticipation for the record has reached both a fever point, and dismissal. Jay has tweeted on two occasions that the album is complete, once in 2011, and again, with a purposed tracklist, in July 2012. Understandably, for anyone with more than a casual interest in hip-hop, Act II: Patents of Nobility (The Turn) is the Holy Grail. He's scary good” – to Q-Tip, Nas, Diddy, and Erkyah Badu, with whom he has a child. He’s had several singles, “ Exhibit A” and “Exhibit C”, signed to Roc Nation, and received props from JAY Z – “Him as a lyricist is almost scary. It’s 2013, and five years later, Jay Electronica hasn’t released another full-length. In other words, he was fucking brilliant. Even if you were atheist to the idea of a biblical rap icon, Jay Electronica perpetuated any worthwhile rap blog, heralded under the words: The Best Thing To Happen To Hip-Hop. If you believed it, Jay Electronica, call him Jay ElecHannukah, Jay ElecRammadan, Muhammad A'salaamaleikum, was the deity that hip-hop had been waiting for.
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