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Valentinez A. Kaiser said:
Quoted for emphasis.
For all these comments talking about how Jay-Z was really spitting on this album, let's not discount the influence Electronica had for him to be spitting this way.

In other words Jay E got Jay spitting and Jay got Jay E into album mode.
We not hearing this album without Jay-Z and equally we're not hearing Jay-Z spit the way he's spitting without Jay E
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Niggas saying anything again.
 
OGDirtyDee said:
Man wtf is this album??? Saw Ghost Of Soulja Slim and was like well shit if anything this shit about to slap....nah. referencing BG I Want It track was the only take away. Tried half the songs but this production wack and tf is Jay spitting random few seconds on multiple tracks like he got to hold Electronica's hand through it. Never was a fan of dude but this didnt help create a new eye on him at all.
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That's Soulja slim song. Not B.G.
 
5 Grand said:
Anyway, here's a link to my album, which was released this week






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Disc III by Mic Shabazz

Album · 2020 · 22 Songs
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..........Shenco & 5 Grand Present: The Unwritten Testimony
 
As a Jay Elect fan I'm slightly disappointed but as a fan of Hip Hop I'm happy and satisfied. My GOAT is Scarface but Hov makes it harder each day(pause) to not bump him up to that top spot. 4/5 for me and I HOPE this is what Jay Elect needed to elevate his horrible work ethic.
 
5 Grand said:
Well for the record, I also released an album this week. It has 22 tracks and I'm rapping solo on every song.

So if you have to be a rapper to judge another rapper's album, I'm a rapper and I released an album in the exact same week as Jay E.

It's beyond comprehension why he released so little so late. Just to compare and contrast,

Paid In Full - Eric B & Rakim

Eric B Is President and My Melody came out on the same 12" single in the summer of 1986. I Know You Got Soul came out in the spring of 87, with the album, Paid In Full coming out in the summer of 87. Those 3 songs were old by the time the album dropped. We skipped past them because we were sick of hearing them. There were also 3 instrumental tracks on Paid In Full; Chinese Arithmetic, Eric B Is On The Cut (which had the same beat as Chinese Arithmetic) and Extended Beat, which was the instrumental for one of the songs on the album (Move The Crowd). When it was all said and done, Paid In Full only had 4 new songs; I Ain't No Joke, Move The Crowd, As The Rhyme Goes On and Paid In Full. Think over that, the Paid In Full LP only had 4 new songs. But people still call it a 5 mic classic.


Illmatic - Nas

Illmatic was only 10 tracks, one of the songs was an intro (The Genesis) and another song (Halftime) was two years old when the album dropped. There was also a feature (AZ on Life's A B!tch) So it was really 8 new songs, with one of the songs having a feature. But Illmatic took 2 years from the time Halftime came out to when Illmatic dropped. We were satisfied but I would have appreciated a few more songs on the album.

A Written Testimony

A Written Testimony doesn't get the pass that Illmatic gets. Yeah there's 10 songs, but half of them contain features. The music is dope, the rapping is dope, but there's something fundamentally flawed about the finished product. I'd like to see him release a real album in 2021.

Anyway, I'll give him 4 mics all things considered. It's really a 5 mic album, but for the reasons I explained, I'm only giving him 4 mics.


Anyway, here's a link to my album, which was released this week






itunes.apple.com

Disc III by Mic Shabazz

Album · 2020 · 22 Songs
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Lol this nigga sound like Guru..........that's about it tho.

Also the beat for song 2>>>>>>>>>>>> every beat on A Written Testimony
 
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That verse in The Blinding exposed Jay Elect though. I don't think there's a job/profession on Earth that performance doesn't get critiqued or evaluated. Prostitutes, janitors, athletes, teachers, politicians, fast food workers, musicians, etc. We all go through it man.
 
The Hue said:
As a Jay Elect fam I’m slightly disappointed but as a fan of Hip Hop I’m happy and satisfied. My GOAT is Scarface but Hov makes it harder each day(pause) to not bump him up to that top spot. 4/5 for me and I HOPE this is what Jay Elect needed to elevate his horrible work ethic.
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Bolded is pretty much exactly how I feel...I’m a bigger hip hop fan than I am a Jay E fan so once I get past tha “slight disappointment” of bein’ a Jay E fan and wanting a real “debut” album I immediately feel pleased as a hip-hop fan that I got what in MY opinion is a pretty dope album...
 
The Hue said:
That verse in The Blinding exposed Jay Elect though. I don't think there's a job/profession on Earth that performance doesn't get critiqued or evaluated. Prostitutes, janitors, athletes, teachers, politicians, fast food workers, musicians, etc. We all go through it man.
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A nigga on who paying someone to have sex with them shouldn't be allowed to critique said person he had to pay to get laid
 
GOAT said:
Ezekiels Wheel bout put me to sleep
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Some ask me "Jay, man, why come for so many years you been exempt?"
'Cause familiarity don't breed gratitude, just contempt
And the price of sanity is too damn high, just like the rent
Mm-mm-mm, mm-mm-mm, uh, uh
Sometimes I was held down by the gravity of my pen (Pen)


My favourite bars on the entire joint



That was probably his truth as a musician
 
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