According to Nas, interviewed above on BBC radio, Jay Electronica was supposed to produced the entire "Untitled" album. What? I remember reading that Jay Elec gave Nas his demo and Nas liked it, but never before has there been any mention of him as a producer of anything other than an intro, let alone enough of one to hold down an entire album for a major label MC. How has this never been talked about before now?
"I wanted to get him to do the entire Untitled album, the N-word album. He had ideas. He was pulling records from J Dilla… He was pulling records, and he was there with me while I was working on it, and he did the first record on there and it would have been so ahead of its time, because no one at that time, he wasn’t signed, he wasn’t out there like that," Nas said.
"It would have been great right now to go back and say this dude produced my whole album years ago. It would have been cool. He’s ahead of his time like that. Now, yeah, but everyone knows who he is now and some of the mystique would be gone if he did that but who knows how it would come out? It would probably be crazy still."
Among other mentions of wanting to spit over Dilla beats, but not knowing who he was (yeah right), Nas goes on to mention his DJ Premier album that has yet to be made and discusses the new Life is Good.
Between breaking up the Illuminati Rothschild's and meditating in ancient temples, Jay Elec continues to carry buzz despite putting out only Sprite commercials and no albums to show for his time signed to Roc Nation. If this dude doesn't put something out on par of "Exhibit C", he may go the Ma$e route and be a homeless, preachy has been before we ever see the light.
I will still check for new Jay Elec until the world explodes and hope that he can hold down an entire album with no features and not turn into the modern day compilation album with techno-house rap songs that seem to happen to everyone in 2012 and beyond.
UPDATE:
Not sure how legit this post is or if it will actually ever come out, but this teaser of the tracklist for Act II (the first official album) was posted by Jay Elec on his Twitter today. WTF! Note the Illuminati guest list.
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