{"id":136530,"date":"2025-02-21T15:11:09","date_gmt":"2025-02-21T20:11:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/2025\/02\/21\/remember-when-jay-electronica-was-the-best-rapper-alive-2\/"},"modified":"2025-02-21T15:11:09","modified_gmt":"2025-02-21T20:11:09","slug":"remember-when-jay-electronica-was-the-best-rapper-alive-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/2025\/02\/21\/remember-when-jay-electronica-was-the-best-rapper-alive-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Remember When Jay Electronica Was the Best Rapper\u00a0Alive?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!-- no image --><\/p>\n<div><!-- do not apply CSS styles to this element! --><\/p>\n<div class=\"pmc-not-a-paywall\">\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\t<a data-id=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/artist\/jay-electronica\/\" data-type=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/artist\/jay-electronica\/\">Jay Electronica<\/a> has a guest verse on Ransom and <a data-id=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/artist\/dave-east\/\" data-type=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/artist\/dave-east\/\">Dave East<\/a>\u2019s project entitled <em><a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" data-id=\"https:\/\/orcd.co\/finalcall\" data-type=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/orcd.co\/finalcall\" target=\"_blank\">Final Call<\/a><\/em> on a song called \u201cFinal Call\u201d and that synergy is so perfect, it reminded me of the spellbinding, mind-blowing verses the Jay Man first came in the game with. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tI\u2019m not sure why they didn\u2019t go with the album art <em>Fake Shore Drive<\/em>\u2018s Andrew Barber tweeted when he announced the tape because it made too much sense to fashion after the Nation of Islam\u2019s newspaper. The only thing that would\u2019ve made it better is if it came with a bean pie, or at least a good recipe.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Dave East &amp; Ransom<\/p>\n<p>\u2013 The Final Call \u2013 <\/p>\n<p>Album available everywhere this Friday (2\/21) feat. Jay Electronica, Method Man, 22Gz &amp; Abby Jasmine\u2026<\/p>\n<p>Art by <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PAPE908?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">@PAPE908<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/EDw18Y07b1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/EDw18Y07b1<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Andrew Barber (@fakeshoredrive) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/fakeshoredrive\/status\/1891897933915705761?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">February 18, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tThe track features a soulful loop and all three rappers come correct, but this feature and the artwork I first peeped on X also got me to thinking about the time Electronica was perhaps the best rapper on the planet.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"embed-youtube\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"THE FINAL CALL (feat. Jay Electronica)\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/dCACC1qC0Rs?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tLet me take you back to the Blog Era, a time of growth for rap music, as hip-hop was dealing with its mainstream success and worldwide appeal that was predictably watering the genre and culture down. Rappers young and old were using the Internet to their advantage, shunning the traditional label system for a more renegade approach to releasing music. They also were using social media more freely than they do these days and weren\u2019t going viral for every little thing now that everyone and their moms has an X or IG account.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tAnd then Jay Elect appears almost like a magician. There was word that <a data-id=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/artist\/j-dilla\/\" data-type=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/artist\/j-dilla\/\">J Dilla<\/a> gave him a pack of beats before his untimely passing in 2006, he was having a child with the one and only <a data-id=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/artist\/erykah-badu\/\" data-type=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/artist\/erykah-badu\/\">Erykah Badu<\/a>, his music would pop up randomly out of the ether. You didn\u2019t exactly know what he looked like and he repped New Orleans, yet didn\u2019t sound like he was from there. He was an anomaly. He was theatre, something that the game has been missing in this fanatical social media landscape.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tSo, in honor of a very rare Jay Electronica verse, here\u2019s a list of his 15 most brain-melting songs from the time when he was \u201cthe lion, the savior, the messiah, the lamb.\u201d<\/p>\n<div id=\"pmc-gallery-vertical\">\n<div class=\"c-gallery-vertical-loader u-gallery-app-shell-loader\">\n<div class=\"u-gallery-app-shell__figure u-gallery-app-shell u-gallery-react-placeholder-shimmer\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"u-gallery-app-shell__text u-gallery-app-shell u-gallery-react-placeholder-shimmer\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"u-gallery-app-shell__text-small u-gallery-app-shell u-gallery-react-placeholder-shimmer\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"u-gallery-app-shell__content u-gallery-app-shell__content-1 u-gallery-app-shell u-gallery-react-placeholder-shimmer\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"u-gallery-app-shell__content u-gallery-app-shell__content-2 u-gallery-app-shell u-gallery-react-placeholder-shimmer\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"u-gallery-app-shell__content u-gallery-app-shell__content-3 u-gallery-app-shell u-gallery-react-placeholder-shimmer\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"u-gallery-app-shell__content u-gallery-app-shell__content-4 u-gallery-app-shell u-gallery-react-placeholder-shimmer\"><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/lists\/best-jay-electronica-songs-ransom-dave-east\/\">Aller \u00e0 la source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jay Electronica has a guest verse on Ransom and Dave East\u2019s project entitled Final Call on a song called \u201cFinal Call\u201d and that synergy is so perfect, it reminded me of the spellbinding, mind-blowing verses the Jay Man first came in the game with. I\u2019m not sure why they didn\u2019t go with the album art [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-136530","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-musique","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136530","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=136530"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136530\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=136530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=136530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=136530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}