Я подумал, раз это мой сайт и я могу публиковать здесь помимо собственных эссе и новелл все, что мне интересно, что меня вдохновляет, то почему бы не быть здесь музыке, которую в разное время я открыл для себя и которая сопровождает меня по жизни? Это правильное место, чтобы вы тоже услышали эту музыку и узнали о тех людях, которые ее создали.
Сегодня я хочу предложить вам сложную, многослойную вещь, постмодернистскую вещь, в которой хипхоп-поэзия пронизана сильным влиянием Джека Керуака, использованы сэмплы саундтрэка Ларса Даниелссона к небезызвестному фильму «Вавилон» Инъярриту, религиозной проповеди, монолога Профессора Марвела из «Волшебника Страны Оз» 1939 года и стопроцентный детройтский соул. Вряд ли вас удивит и имя продюсера этого сингла — Рюиши Сакамото. Я выложил здесь полный текст трэка, включая сэмплы, а также био Jay Electronica, без особых усилий отыскав все это в сети.
Я не хотел бы давать рецензию тому, что вы услышите. Лично, персонально я слышу госпел, гимн крайней степени самоценному, глубокому индивидуализму, что придает этой вещи значение, вес в моем восприятии.
[Elijah Muhammad]
If one would open up truth, such as the truth of God to the people, I do think that He’s within his rights to stay out of the sight of the people until He has won everything to Himself; as the Bible refers to it like this: He’s something like a king looking for a kingdom. And that He goes and he visits the people, then He leaves the people, goes away and waits until the time when that He can secure the kingdom. Then He returns to the people that He had made Himself manifest to. So I think that’s a pretty good answer
[Professor Marvel]
Well, I can’t do anything without consulting my crystal first. Let’s go inside here, just come along, I’ll show you, that’s right, here. Sit down right here, that’s it. This, this is the same genuine, magic, authentic crystal used by the priest of Isis and Osiris in the days of the pharaohs of Egypt. In which, Cleopatra first saw the approach of Julius Caesar and Mark Antony and so on and so on. Now you better close your eyes, my child, for a moment, in order to be better in tune with the infinite
[Verse: Jay Electronica]
It’s frustratin’ when you just can’t express yourself
And it’s hard to trust enough to undress yourself
To stand exposed and naked, in a world full of hatred
Where the sick thoughts of mankind control all the sacred
I pause, take a step back, record all the setbacks
Fast forward towards the stars and the jetpack
My feet might fail me, my heart might ail me
The synagogues of Satan might accuse or jail me
Strip, crown, nail me, brimstone hail me
They might defeat the flesh but they could never ever kill me
They might can feel the music but could never ever feel me
To the lawyers, to the sheriffs, to the judges
To the debt holders and the law makers
Fuck you, sue me, bill me
That name on that birth certificate, that ain’t the real me
The lies can’t conceal me
The sun rise and the moon tides and the sky’s gon’ reveal me
My brain pours water out my tear ducts to heal me
My Lord’s too beneficent
The message grab a hold to every ear it get whispered in
The waters in the bayous of New Orleans still glistenin’
The universe is listenin’, be careful what you say in it
My grandma told me every bed a nigga make, he lay in it
The church you go to pray in it, the work is on the outside
Staring out the windows is for love songs and house flies
[Bridge: Latonya Givens]
I’ve got somethin’ to say
I, I’ve got somethin’ to say
[Outro: Latonya Givens]
Yesterday, yesterday is gone
Tomorrow, tomorrow is on the way
You don’t have time to waste
Gotta get it right
Yesterday, yesterday is gone
Tomorrow, tomorrow is on the way
You don’t have time to waste
Gotta get it right
Yesterday, yesterday is gone
Tomorrow, tomorrow is on the way
You don’t have time to waste
Gotta get it right.
Jay Electronica was born on September 19, 1976, in the Magnolia Projects of New Orleans, renowned for having some of the highest crime rates in the country before being flooded during Hurricane Katrina. He began rapping after hearing his uncle rhyme. By the age of 19 Jay Electronica left New Orleans to pursue his musical career. Living a mostly nomadic lifestyle, he found refuge in cities such as Philadelphia, Denver, Baltimore, Detroit, New York, and briefly in Atlanta. From club to club, and stage to stage, Electronica had gotten booed off and denied because of his Southern accent and slang. «In my earlier years from when I first left home, I was embarrassed from being from the South,» Thedford stated. «Not in general, but as a rapper because all of the negative things that people in the States put on the South.»Electronica’s career really took off in the city of Detroit when he linked up with Detroit native Johnnie Last. In Detroit, Electronica met producer/engineer Mike «Chav» Chavarria, now a regular collaborator, who introduced him to both J. Dilla and Mr. Porter. It is here that he recorded his Style Wars-era music with several J. Dilla beats, meeting the producer subsequently to ask for permission to use the recordings as a demo. Jay Electronica first gained significant attention through Act 1: Eternal Sunshine (The Pledge), made available on a MySpace page in 2007. It is fifteen continuous minutes of music, without drums, built from Jon Brion’s soundtrack to the film Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. There are five segments or movements marked by changes in music and mood, raps by Electronica, and occasional snippets of sampled dialogue including scenes from Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory. The first segment is a spoken word piece by Just Blaze and Erykah Badu describing Electronica over piano music. The nature of the piece of music, along with the nature of its appearance, led to a slow build-up of interest in Electronica as an enigmatic figure. Songs circulating online as the Style Wars EP gained wider circulation, and other songs, such as the dream-inspired «Dimethyltryptamine», appeared. In January 2008, Giles Peterson’s 90-minute Gilles Peterson Worldwide podcast was devoted to the rapper. Hiphopdx.com in 2008 called him «arguably…the most talked about new emcee last year … at times…more like a myth or urban legend than an actual rapper», and URB ran a cover story on the artist under the banner «Jay Electronica: A Spotless Mind :: An MC’s mystery revealed», which referred to his wanderings as his being «like some sort of hip-hop Jack Kerouac». Jeff Weiss’ piece for the L.A. Weekly, «Jay Electronica: Much Better Than His Name Would Suggest», acknowledged that the rapper could be fairly described as «one of the most buzzed about rappers of 2008», but attempted to temper the hype somewhat, describing Act 1… as «ambitious, wildly original, if not slightly pretentious», while endorsing only to an extent the comparisons URB had made (referencing an «abstract rhyming style») to rappers like Nas and Pharoahe Monch. Jay Electronica has yet to release a full-length album, but he has released two official singles to date, «Exhibit A (Transformations)» and «Exhibit C» According to URB, Act II: Patents of Nobility will feature Nas, and will be the second of a putative trilogy. URB also reported that digital EPs with both Guilty Simpson and producer 9th Wonder were planned. According to a Filter TV interview, Jay Electronica has partnered with Decon to release his debut project. It is being described as a multi-media release and footage from the project which was partially shot in Nepal and Dubai has begun to surface online. The first clip to leak is titled «Dear Moleskine» and can be found on YouTube, the track was produced by Just Blaze and the clip was directed by Jason Goldwatch from Decon. In June 2009, Decon and Jay’s «The Dogon Society» released «Exhibit A (Transformations)» digitally. «Exhibit C» was released on iTunes December 16, 2009 and quickly shot to the top 10 of the iTunes Hip-Hop charts. Jay Electronica appeared at the 2010 Bonnaroo Music Festival. Jay Electronica continued his scattered release practice, releasing «A Million in the Morning» on April 4, 2010. The song features a weary Electronica trying to keep himself awake to escape his nightmares. On April 30, Jay Electronica debuted «The Ghost of Christopher Wallace» via his Twitter. The song features P Diddy and is produced by London beatsmith Quincey Tones, who is known for producing such acts as Young Jeezy and Royce da 5’9″.On November 12, 2010, Jay-Z announced that Jay Electronica had signed with his Roc Nation imprint. In late 2010, Electronica and actress Lucy Liu were featured on The Bullitts’ song «Close Your Eyes» that was featured on the album They Die By Dawn & Other Short Stories released in July 2013. In July 2011, Jay Electronica posted via his Twitter that his debut album, Act II: Patents of Nobility (The Turn), was complete. On October 10, 2011, Jay Electronica released the song «Call of Duty» featuring Prodigy from Mobb Deep. On March 15, 2014, Jay Electronica released the song «Better In Tune With The Infinite» featuring LaTonya Givens. The song features an excerpt of Professor Marvel’s monologue from The Wizard of Oz (1939 film) and will reportedly be included on the long delayed «Act II,» according to a track list that Jay Electronica leaked in 2012. Later, on March 22, 2014, he released a remix to Soulja Boy’s «We Made It», featuring Jay-Z. On March 6, 2015, Jay Electronica released «Road to Perdition» featuring Jay-Z. The song uses an audio sample from Ronald Reagan’s «A Time For Choosing» 1964 speech. In 2016, after much anticipation, he hinted that he would be dropping new music (The Turn) by going to his Twitter and writing, «To all those who have been patient with me and supported me over the years, thank you. And get #Tidal#AreYouWatchingClosely?». In 2016 also he released the «Curse of the Mayweather».
Jay Electronica and Erykah Badu have one child together, Mars Merkaba Allah, born in 2009. On June 2, 2012, it was revealed that Electronica had been having an affair with Ben Goldsmith’s music manager wife, Kate Rothschild, for a year. Electronica is affiliated with the Five Percent Nation and the Nation of Islam. He was based in London for some time.
