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Jay Electronica – Exhibit C
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Produced by Just Blaze, "Exhibit C" is the sequel to Exhibit A.
Jay does the meme "what’s going on in my career right now" trope that is really popular with his peers (c.f. Drake’
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Jay Electronica – Exhibit C (Clean)
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[Intro: Just Blaze] / Hey! / It's coming / Ladies and gentlemen; this time around / The revolution will not be televised / Woo! As we proceed! / To give you what you need! / '09
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Jay Electronica – Exhibit A (Transformations)
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“Exhibit A” is the breakthrough track from New Orleans-via-Brooklyn MC Jay Electronica, also Erykah Badu’s baby daddy.
The beat is a Just Blaze production, peppered with samples
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Childish Gambino – (?)
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A heated verse spit over Jay Electronica’s “Exhibit C,” “(?)” is the eighth and final track on Childish Gambino’s mixtape “I AM JUST A RAPPER 2.” The untitled track is an alternate
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King Los – Exhibit C
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[Los] / And I could paint the whole world with these words / I speak life like earth, sky, trees, birds / Fly, land, water, dry land, breath, lungs, heart, eyes, hands / Progress
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Check The Rhyme: Deconstructing Jay Electronica's "Exhibit C ...
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Jay Electronica didn't even need a hook to drop an all-time rap purists' favorite track. His 2009 song “Exhibit C” helped the elusive rapper build his ...
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Lil B – Exhibit Based
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This is the fifth track off of Lil B’s second installment of his ‘Flame’ mixtape collection, Red Flame. A foremost example of Lil B showing off lyrical prowess. He raps over Jay
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Lil B – Exhibit 6
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A sequel to Lil B’s Exhibit Based – both are homages to Jay Electronica’s Exhibit C and it’s predecessor Exhibit A
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Kill Bill: The Rapper – QUARANTINE [Exhibit C Freestyle]
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[Intro] / Oh Lord hear me / God please send her to me yeah / God please send her to me yeah... / Can't escape from crossing fate / Don't give up / Cross my heart that I love
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Jay Electronica – Twitter Q&A
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The ever elusive Jay Electronica answers twitter users questions about his album, Kanye West, Lil B and much more.
h/t Pigeons and Planes and hiphopwired
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Tobe Nwigwe – Exhibit C Tribute
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[Intro] / Legendary, look / [Verse] / I ain't gon' wait 'til the beat drop / I'ma get it while it's warm and start to form this heat rock / I spit classic complex progressions, my
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Jay Electronica (Ft. Yasiin Bey) – Exhibit B (Holiday)
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This song was intended for Jay Electronica and Yasiin Bey’s fabled collaboration album, Simpatico, which never seemed to grow into fruition.
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Jay Electronica (Ft. Yasiin Bey) – Exhibit A (Remix)
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o3msiuefFdI
Yasiin Bey and Jay Electronica make it very clear in this clip that there IS no Exhibit B and that what people are calling Exhibit B is
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Big K.R.I.T. – Exhibit K (Freestyle)
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Big KRIT freestyles over Jay Electronica’s “Exhibit A”. Call it “Exhibit K”
Some of the lyric from this song was also used in Big K.R.I.T’s freestyle at the XXL freshman edition
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Jay Electronica – Exhibit G (Submission)
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[Intro] / Don't you make me do wrong, do wrong / No, don't you make me do wrong, do wrong / Yeah / [Verse 1] / This ain't the end, but we justifying the means / Closet full of
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Dissecting Kendrick Lamar’s Disses On His New Song “ELEMENT.”
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“Niggas wanna flex on me and be in L.A. for free, huh?”
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Playboi Carti Pays Homage To An Infamous New Orleans Housing Project On “Magnolia”
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It’s the birthplace of Birdman, Juvenile, Jay Electronica, and Soulja Slim.
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Jay Electronica (Ft. Prodigy of Mobb Deep) – Call of Duty
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Jay discusses the song on his Tumblr:
i wouldn’t have believed it myself if i hadn’t experienced it.
within just 24 hours, i wrote a record to give away online, summoned the
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Lupe Fiasco – Carrera Luis Hamilton Jr.
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[Intro] / Night work / Another one from Mama Electronica / Peace and blessings! / Yeah / [Verse 1] / Existential crisis / Hip-hop treat him like a Christian at ISIS / Eat his
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Billy Stewart – Cross My Heart
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Cross my heart that I love her / Place no one up above her / Ooh, ooh / I want a girl that's true / (I want a girl that's true) / To tell all my troubles to / (Tell all my troubles
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Jay Electronica – Call of Duty: Mw3
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Feat. Mobb Deep / "Centuries ago, words were written to be a call / And a spur to the faithful servants of Truth and Justice: / Arm yourselves, and be ye men of valor / And be in
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Jay Electronica – Exhibit A (Clean)
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[Intro] / And his own story was as curious as his narrative / The tale of his life is the tale of a writer of incredible vision / An astute analyst and pundit / A lyricist
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Dee-1 – Exhibit D
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[Intro] / I Hope They Hear Me! Uh / Dee-Uno / Shout out to Jay Electronica, man / That boy from the N.O. / Yeah, let's go / Put your hands up (Okay) / (Yeah, I got a chip on my
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Jay Electronica (Ft. Nneka) – Walking (J. Period Remix)
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[Intro: Nneka] / Black, blackness, yeah / The Black side of me / C'mon, listen up / [Chorus: Nneka] / In all things we commend ourselves / In much patience, in tribulations, in
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Kano – Rude Boy
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[Verse 1: Kano] / Look, I'm a rude boy, yeah, I don't give a fuck / Chicks call me python, yeah, Mr. Big Enough / Yeah, I can get it up / Red Bull, keep it up / Swimming pool, deep
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Top 10 Just Blaze Beats
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Yerr.
(This list is strictly opinion)
Dipset Anthem
PSA
I Really Mean It
Song Cry
Compton
Touch The Sky
Live Your Life
Exhibit C
Girls, Girls, Girls
Oh Boy
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AZ – Exhibit AZ
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[Intro] / Y'all know what it is / Almighty AZ, Brooklyn / Hahahahaha / [Verse] / I'm zig zag ziggin' it, I know niggas diggin' it / Life so legitimate, been nice since The Genesis
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Jay Electronica – Love Czars II
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[Verse 1 Jay Electronica] / Heavens to Murgatroyd / Who drop a bomb and roll out like Metroid / The Jedi master without a droid, Lounging in the void / You'll be talking shit when
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Superflyronald – Little Haiti: The Marginalization of Haitians in Rap
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Fugees fan seeks music 4 immigrant experience.
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Jay Electronica – Poetry (Interlude)
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Jay comments on the state of hip-hop and praises older hip-hop, such as Only Built 4 Cuban Linx…, for its poetry
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Jay Electronica (Ft. Naledge) – Cool, Relax
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[Verse One: Naledge] / Naledge your idol, The highest title, numero uno / Speakin' from my mind and I'm spittin' so that you know / I got a gift on the microphone / A blessin' up
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Jay Electronica – Departure
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This is Jay E’s story of how and why he went to NYC. This song details two departures; the obvious one is Jay’s self-exile to NYC, the (somewhat) more subtle one is Minnie’s
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Jay Electronica – Extra Extra
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This song is the third song off of Jay Electronica’s mixtape, “What the Fuck is a Jay Electronica?”. It features a Madlib beat off the Dudley Perkin’s album entitled “Dear God.”
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Jay Electronica (Ft. Che Grand) – Hagler
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A pretty awesome song from FWMJ and Jay. E’s Scratches & Demo tape.
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Jay Electronica – Googley Eyes
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This song can be heard/read two ways.
“She” is Hip Hop, a not uncommon personification that is only revivified here.
“She” is the average Hip Hop listener who has given up hope
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Fabolous – Exhibit F
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[Intro: Fabolous] / Its so sad / But I would like to thank everyone who came along, to the funeral service / Somehow, someway, we will find a way to move on / As we proceed, to
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King Los – Control (Freestyle)
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King Los hops on the remix of the controversial track Control
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Kendrick Lamar – ELEMENT. (Original)
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[Intro] / I don't give a fuck, I don't give a- / I don't give a-, I don't- / This will be an ugly motherfucker / [Verse 1] / I'm willin' to die for this shit / I done cried for
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Kanye West (Ft. Kid Cudi & Raekwon) – Gorgeous
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“Gorgeous” sees Kanye describing the ugly nature of social injustice in America, ironically calling the nation “gorgeous” because of it.
Recorded during his self-imposed exile in
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Jay Electronica – Suckas
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A song off the Victory tape. It uses the beat “Jackpot” by the legendary J Dilla and samples the 1967 The Robert Decormier Singers version of the Weavers Kisses Sweeter Then Wine.
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Jay Electronica – Swagger Jackson's Revenge
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Jay Electronica is an astute political and cultural commentator. In “Swagger Jackson’s Revenge,” Jay Elec offers commentary on the the state of the American inner-city and its
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Styles P – Exhibit A Freestyle A.K.A Ghostblaze
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Freestyle over this beat from Jay Electronica
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