J A Y E L E C T R O N I C A - Act 1: Eternal Sunshine 

I thought, "I'll just play this while I work." No. No. I'll sit silently and let it wash over me for the millionth time because I can't believe a human could imagine and deliver something like this. What an achievement. A Written Testimony is a worthy successor, however long it took for Jay to bring it to fruition.

I needed something to listen to, Instead I found something to listen to me…. Thanks Jay .

Voodoo man, tapdancing in the French quarter walking on water with a scroll in my hand.

I can't believe I lived to see Act II. All Praise To The Most High 🤲🏾🕋

i thank Jay for introducing me to one of my favorite films of all time.

Everything is connected Darkness vs Light No good No evil Just cause and effect. You choose your destiny in the infinite amount of universes we have. Every second counts, be yourself. Be free. Find truth, but never be afraid of it. Become the “god” you follow. The true nature of who you are. We are all one. And it takes one being to change the world.

I like to listen to this whenever I'm feeling depressed. It gets me going. Jay is such a talented artist.

I come to this song every time I need to get inspiration or get my creativity flowing.

When I first heard this track wayyy back when, it obliterated my soul, and this song has never left my head. I always come back to it over 10 years later. This is creative artistry on another level, it's someone who left a masterpiece to the world and doesn't have to leave us anything else.

never get tired of this one

This has been my favorite movie for over a decade. This song is amazing

“Cuz he makes us, realize who we reallly are”

Why have I been sleeping on this man for all this time 😩

Act 1 The Pledge is uniterable, a stroke of genius.

I hope live long enough to hear Act 2 😩

All time classic record right here

Literally just found out who jay electronica is and found this. I’m in awe. Masterpiece.

I feel like a fool for disregarding this man in the past

This was the first album 👏🏽👏🏽

this the catalyst. forever grateful. :)

This songs plays out like a film, amazing

[Just Blaze] I met Jay through, initially through Rashad Smith, a couple of nights. And he kept hitting me about this kid that hew knew who could rhyme crazy, but he just had, he just needed a break. But he felt like he was destined to be one of the great ones. So finally, he sent me some stuff, emailed me some music and I was instantly just like, wow One day I was on IM and he just IM'd me out of nowhere and we just started kickin' it and at first I'm like, you know. We would talk and I was just like, yo, what is with this dude? He was just so, tryin' to think of the right way to put it. He would basically just ask you the craziest questions like, what would be the best way to attack this or attack that. Cause he's so much of a planner and a tactician and I learned that later on. At the time I didn't realize why he was asking the kind of questions he was asking me. He just wanted to know his whole plan of attack and my thing was always just, yo, just make music I think once he got in that mindset and just started recording, it was like every other day he was sending me back something crazy. So we turned out to really develop a real type of relationship, almost like a brotherhood really So it was kinda like I consider him like my, even though this is a cliche saying, like a brother from another mother. Just on the, not so much on the physical, but on the spiritual level and on an artistic level definitely. We just kinda bonded like brothers real quick and I think that's just because we have a love for the music and we're both really good natured people at heart, we just really wanna continue the culture and expand it and stuff instead of doing the same thing over and over again I think, the reason I had kinda gotten, not necessarily discouraged, but just bored with hip hop in general is because people don't like to take risks, they don't like to try anything different. And in order to really make any kind of impact these days, not just sales-wise, but just on the artistry, you gotta be able to go to the left and try different things. Sometimes you'll get killed for it and sometimes you'll succeed But he was one of the few artists that was just willing to go all the way to the left with it. Like this Eternal Sunshine thing. I can't think of any other rapper that would even think to do something like this [Erykah Badu] I met Jay Electronica in Brooklyn. One obscure day, a friend of mine named SupaNova came over to the house and told me, this is the MC I've been telling you about. He let me hear him maybe a week prior to him coming into the apartment. I remember him coming into the apartment. I remember him taking off the shoes as everyone does. I remember him having on black socks, they were short socks, like Jordan socks or something like that. I remember him sitting on the futon and I was breast-feeding and I was very busy because I was also home-schooling and I was looking around for a place to sit my baby down, my 3, 4 month-old. I handed her to Jay and she rested comfortably there and that's how we initially met. And he and Seven, my son, became fast friends. They actually became friends before he and I became friends. That was the meeting and I remember after hearing his music I wanted to start a record label just on the strength of hearing him Jay Electronica the person. I wouldn't even call him a person cause he's a weird looking cat. His ears are kinda pointy, he's got a square head. He looks kinda like he's a alien from somewhere really. But in a rare beautiful way, like some kind of mythical creature who would have a bow and arrow on his back and wings under that bow and arrow. He also has spirit to his look. He's very unorthodox in the way he treats people. He's peculiarly intelligent and makes you very curious and draws you in and as he stated before his masculine energy really draws in the female, or the feminine energy. Which makes me happy and mad He's just very easy to fall in love with because he's such a protector. He's such a positive, in every kind of way if you will. He's a plus in this world. I think everyone he knows becomes dependent on him because he helps us to see who we really are

Damn..in 2019 this is still the greatest song I have ever heard.

This art is timeless, ill be an old man revisiting this masterpiece

Guys, ACT II leaked. It’s out

I came back here cuz im waiting for that damn album to drop right now

Top 5! 🙏🏻🧘🏻‍♂️🍵👣🎤✌🏼 Jay Electronica Black Thought Mos Def Andre 3000 Kanye West

i will never stop coming back to this masterpiece

Jay Elec at his finest!!! Pure ART 🎨

Classic!

A Written Testimony is such a beautiful ode to this track. Beautiful stuff from Jay.

Dope Emcee

Always coming back to this and living legends

Thanks for the amazing track

I was so excited for your show in vancouver B.C before covid! I'm so sad it was canceled. I really hope you come back again. I haven't looked forward to any show more in my entire life. you are one of the greatest of all time!

Amazing

The closing track so damn nice

This masterpiece is always relaxing

Man, does it get any better than this?

WTF my RU-vid glitching again. It says 63k views on this masterpiece of art when I know it means 63 mill

All I can say is thank you!!

I A M S T I L L I N A W E

Classic. #ACT1

Big up Jon Brion ✊🏽

[Sample: Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory] Grandpa Joe: Wh-When does he get it? Willy Wonka: He doesn't Grandpa Joe: Why not? Willy Wonka: Because he broke the rules Grandpa Joe: What rules? We didn't see any rules, did we, Charlie? [Charlie shakes his head briefly] Willy Wonka: [springs up from his chair, angrily] Wrong, sir! Wrong! Under section 37B of the contract signed by him, it states quite clearly that all offers shall become null and void if - and you can read it for yourself in this photostatic copy: [grabs a magnifying glass and reads] Willy Wonka: "I, the undersigned, shall forfeit all rights, privileges, and licenses herein and herein contained," et cetera, et cetera... "Fax mentis, incendium gloria cultum," et cetera, et cetera... Memo bis punitor delicatum! [slams the contract copy and the magnifying glass down, continues shouting] Willy Wonka: It's all there! Black and white, clear as crystal! You stole Fizzy-Lifting Drinks! You bumped into the ceiling, which now has to be washed and sterilized, so you GET... NOTHING! YOU LOSE! GOOD DAY, SIR!

if im correct the french part is about a little kid who is blind an his group of friends trying to guide him out of a dangerious situition with out him getting hurt an realizing they dont know how to

we lived to see act 2

Had to come back to this after act 2 leaked!

thank you, moondog, for sharing that with me.

Classic

I need more

But this room is made of glass! It'll shatter into a thousand pieces, we'll be cut to ribbons!!!!😵

I'm playing this before i die, Allah forgive me. I pray civilization will evolve to whats its supposed to be. I'm meant for that world, not this one we live in. Goodbye friends.

I literally had nothing else to say but wow about 20x and that never happens to me

Jay is the greatest emcee to come out of the boot. Yes, that’s including Wayne. Wayne can’t touch Jay on pure artistry, substance, or bars.

Thank you for changing my life jay

At the end of the song when willie wonka and grandpa joe were talking not kidding at ALL two knick knacks fell off a table in the room out of no fucking where. I swear I have listened to this song a million times and that shit never happened until today!

Love you dad 💘

ACT 2 MADE IT!

We have lived to see Act II

💙

peace to the god - Lil Vicente

I understand this tracks message but can't explain #Godsplan..... His name is truly Jesus

Peace fam - Lil Vicente

💯💥🌌

Found the samples Eerie but the lyrical capability of this man is unlimited

It's just the facts, jack. You may as well face it.

12:20 Come closer to the light man I went blind Woke up in front of a mic stand ... Voodoo man

Jay Electronica is proof of less is more because I keep drinking from this well.

🐐🐐🐐🐐🐐

All praise due to Allah, straight art with teachings of the Honorable Elijah Muhammad

Eternal sun sunshine drum major wit out a drum line..... when they say license & registration I yell in reparations; quote 'em from revelation den I peel off in dey faces.... peace... attack of the clones - Lil Vicente

cant believe this is 15 years old

Mr. Flowers, I'm hoping I got this right and Act 2 is you disappearing. I'm also hoping that you followed through with act 3.... The Prestige. It's almost time. Peace and Love, Jonathan.

Slept to this

Favourite song of mine. Thanks for the quality

“I don’t know any rapper that could even do something like this…”

On this

Ka type beat

It’s Jay Electronica coming through ya monitor

👀

So I realized we have gotten 7 out of 15 tracks off of Act 2, but where are the other 8 for the young brothers seeking answers through your memoirs?

Jay Elec Tesla.

BADUH

89k views…. Saw that about 6 years ago, the original had over a million. Love that he rereleased it but man. Y’all didn’t realize this actually had so many views and now it’s just sitting here. Love you jay, keep the race shit low key but you’re spitting GoD^_~s truth

WHAT IS HAPPENING

1 dislike......why?

Can someone give me some suggestions for some more artists like jay?

Honeslty should have just released this officially instead of the new album

12:06

Timestamp 👀

YOU LOSE!!....GOOD... DAY SIR!!

The computer's still a.l.

Inshallah

#JennyToomeyLawBOOKTVEdition ⚡️🕯🕯🕯⛩💖⛩🕯🕯🕯⚡️#TidallyBeautifulChaos #FutureOfMusicCoalition

"how inspiring" Lmao you just sat through this dude's compilation of people talking about his conceited ass. What a masterpiece.

he needs to overcome " oh, the guy that got obliterated on Control?"... needs a radio track that sticks.

Yeah this is a little odd, definitely creative but very odd sampling music score of an unpopular movie.

So overrated it’s unreal

This is boring and afraid. Like most music.