Vietbrah

6y

I was trying not to end up like Tony in the restaurant

CGod

6y

Damn, this mixing is terrible smh.

Palestinian Oozi

6y

I have listened a few times now....I must admit, I was listening with a very tough ear on Jay Elect. Just because a decade of anticipation for him to drop and the leaks over the years which I legitimately love.

This album was made and serves a different purpose than a lot of the previous Jay Elect music we've received before.

This album is more about being a celebration of dropping a project and the accomplishment of being where he is.

"Act 2 is just the memoirs with no omissions."

This is entirely different. It's more of a celebration of being where he is and who he is and finally dropping. It does have the classic Jay Elect introspection sprinkled thoughout.

I really like the album. I think there's more to come. Idk why but I do.

Palestinian Oozi

6y

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"Eyes fiery, cry tears to my diary
Sometimes a Xanny bar can't help you fight back the anxiety
I go to my Lord quietly, teardrops on our faces
Teardrops on my face, it's like teardrops become waterfalls by the time they reach my laces
My eyelids is like levees but my tear ducts is like glaciers
As I contemplate creation, the salt that heals my wounds pour out my eyes just like libations. I can't stop my mind from racing."

vs you

6y

after thinking overnight and listening a few times... whole album seems like a shot at Ye tbh . Now, not directly but the whole allah noi theme about god and jay basically siding with the muslim side instead of the christian side of what ye is doing ... i dunno i could be way off but thats what comes to mind..

vs you

6y

after thinking overnight and listening a few times... whole album seems like a shot at Ye tbh . Now, not directly but the whole allah noi theme about god and jay basically siding with the muslim side instead of the christian side of what ye is doing ... i dunno i could be way off but thats what comes to mind..

YoungNastyShawty

6y

I honestly don’t think this album woulda been made with out all them jay z features. I think he needed jay z on there to give him a confidence boost. I think he was too insecure to put out out with just him scared of the backlash it may get

The Retiring Mane

6y

^ 2/2

Another thing I aint like is how f***ing pleased of himself this nigga seems to be on this Jay Z album like he doing us a favor. Like...everytime you mention (and ezekiel's wheel was where it really got me pissed off) why you left and you say lines like "And the wee hours of night, tryna squeeze out bars
Bismillah, just so y'all could pick me apart?" or s*** like "Why come for so many years you been exempt?"
'Cause familiarity don't breed gratitude just contempt" ) and it's like...

B**** nigga welcome to Hip Hop. You aint the first rapper to deal with this nor the last. What makes you so f***ing different besides other gifted lyricists that have been there and done that? This would not be an issue, if you had not put anything out between 2010 and now. Y'know what f*** it yo, this would not be an issue, if you had just did your features like Andre and that was IT. But you was taking SHOTS at niggas, other niggas that have been deadass providing the rap game with music for years while you was busy going viral for f***ing ugly billionaire p**** my g. Throwing random shots at a Kendrick Lamar (who yall KNOW I been critical of forever) is ok and won't do anything to breed contempt....but following through on an album will?

And NOW the only way you're coming back is on an 8 track Jay Z album BRAGGING about it ("this a highway robbery") that you keep son's name in your mouth like a groupie my guy?

while you slept, niggas like Mach Hommy, Navy Blue, Mavi (really the whole sLUms crew but those 2 just stick out the most), and Griselda woke tf up and filled a void that honest to god you wasn't doing for years. Star Wars metaphors and New Orleans imagery aint gonna impress us the same way it did back in 2009. Plus, it sounds like son has become mad light on the pen. Almost like @mashallahwallahi said, like he's become a parody of himself.

Until the outro. Let me just say that s*** was f***ing beautiful son. I'm not gonna lie and say that s*** didn't make me shed a tear. But THAT was the Jay Electronica that I was missing for this entire album. The nigga that made words move and painted a picture that made you feel s***. Not the nigga that's the rapper spokesperson for the Final Call (and I know son always been NOI but he was way more smooth/subtle about it back in the days than now). It's because of that outro that makes me mad at this Jay Z featuring Jay E album.

Cause why is the 50 year old nigga spitting with more hunger on majority of this album than the 42 year old that ACTUALLY has something to prove?

And niggas not acknowledging this or keeping it real, is why yall gotta stop moving the goalposts for certain niggas.

This was a cool collab album. Not a "classic." it was cool. No way I'm calling this a debut album when Jay Z's all over this from direction to the damn verses y'herd? It's cool to hear people just spitting but...it's not as impressive when we have so many new niggas out here in that same field now that are doing it...kinda better than son. It's not as empty and barren as it was in '09.

I'm out yo.

Oblivion X

6y

Nah bro ye has nothing to do with this album, other than the old ye bar