#JAY ELECTRONICA

[canmking]

E r y k a h B a d u x J a y E l e c t r o n i c a

[surra-de-bunda]

Erykah Badu during Millions More Movement Launch at Streets of Washington DC photographed by Johnny Nunez (October 2005).

[soweirdsonormal]

[chroniclesofnadia111]

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[freshthoughts2020]

[genderick-lamar]

Btw happy control day for those who celebrate !!! 🙏💜

[canmking]

J a y E l e c t r o n i c a / J a y - Z

[underground-hip-hop-affiliated]

"Now, either you with me or you with me Cuz even if you against me, running with my enemies They ain't nothing but mini-mes That I created long, long ago."

Jay Electronica

[jacobwren]

“She's not trying to be a martyr to unreasonable levels of decency in the face of adversaries, nor is she aimlessly skipping into combativeness for attention. You can feel her deliberating, even about how to follow the advice of Sun Ra — to make a mistake and do something right. On the third track, "Balloons," there's some consensus that she does exactly this by collaborating with controversial rapper Jay Electronica. The song holds the album's swingingest hook and mourns the risk in advance. "Why everybody love a good sad song?" It's a ballad against ballads, and it makes sense that she hosts a tragic hero. "She's just another artist selling trauma to her fanbase." The offended might miss how meta this is, how invested in the impossible wish of rehabilitation. Electronica enters as Lazarus, a risen corpse, as self-aware as he is full of hubris and attack. Neither rapper comes to redeem the other but the foiling that ensues makes for one of the most gorgeous duets in recent memory. It's OK to be unapologetic, I want to say, and to refuse to negotiate trauma through hate, for the span of the song. This is a performance. It's Revolutionary Theater, in the sense Amiri Baraka, also a fount of controversy at times, declares in his poem "Black Art": "Put it on him, poem. Strip him naked to the world! ... Clean out the world for virtue and love, Let there be no love poems written until love can exist freely and cleanly." We can't expect a universe that comes into being through the black mirror to be coded for the sensibilities of white liberals and conformists. This is the prevailing controversy within our expectations of Black music, and especially hip-hop in this middle age: It's not considered offensive when it's denigrating Black life, but any other offenses are egregious.” - Harmony Holiday, Noname's 'Sundial' pursues a hip-hop revolution

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