I used to listen to this in middle school then revisited years later and it sounded totally different because I lived some life and could relate and understand to it. I don’t even know how I found this when I was a kid
"They call me Jay EleAnnotatectronica - fuck that Call me Jay ElecHanukkah, Jay ElecYarmulke Jay ElecRamadaan, Muhammad A'salaamaleikum RasoulAllah Subhanahu wa ta'ala through your monitor"
I love the song... I especially love that part of the song... but if you read Arabic... you will know that it rhymes... all you need to do is fit the english words to the surah or ayat of your choice and you got bars on top of bars... he had great placement though... Jay Electronica rules!!!! But that line wasn't magic... If he had finish the surah he would've hit you with about 10 more bars of pure truth....all rhyming and on beat.... Jay Elec is a beast....
James Crawley yea u ritee.. i do speak arabic but that was a good move, he didnt wana put the surah in the song along with curse words or his other bars. He get respect for that and even that part alone in his verse is respectable. Two birds one stone
One of the greatest songs ever. Any era, any genre. Lyrics are just on a completely different level, and of course, Just Blaze blesses us with another timeless beat.
this is what I hate.. there are so many great songs I do t think about at all or that I have forgotten. sometimes a gem pops up in my recommended here and there but still
I don't get the hype, it sounds like a bunch of Sean Price songs and there's some good lines, def better than 95% of hip hop now, but why is it a top 10 song? Am I missing something here?
@@keanecarlin3890 its every line. Dude spoke about being homeless...not just homeless dude was a nomad coming from the south to the midwest and north east. It's more than just lines, Jay elect is literally spitting science, religion and mathematics here. Also the constant references to his name and the tying it to Nikola Tesla. When I first heard this song I felt like I never heard anything like it before. different....its the energy this joint is gospel. Jay Electronica is a special life form.
Unfuckwitable that's the problem with hip hop if you play throwback shit niggas get emotional when they play trap music and I'm a fan of trap music too I dnt complain about them niggas "content"smh bro these aint rookie Jordan basketball cards you talking hip hop fuck release dates sales and comparisons
"Call me Jay Elec-Hanukkah, Jay Elec-Yarmulke Jay Elect-Ramadan, Muhammad as-salaam-alaikum RasoulAllah Subhanahu wa ta'ala through your monitor' VERY POWERFUL!!! 🔥 🔥 🔥
I remember exactly where I was when I heard this song. I was at work browsing a hip-hop forum and everyone was talking about the song. I remember having that shit on repeat for like a month straight. Probably one of the dopest tracks I ever heard.
100 my peeps, we gone just gone crown Jay elct as a timeless MC! Hes that dope. I was going over all his discography..and MAN.....what he spits really will transcend through time as a MC up there wit Pac and BiG and Jay Z..
1. “The Omnipotent Event” 2. “The Ghost of Soulja Selim” 3. “Blinding” featuring Travis Scott 4. “The Eternal Tale” 5. “The Cosmic Soldier” 6. “The Brilliant Suit Theory” featuring The-Dream 7. “Intensive Flowing” 8. “The Fruits of the Soul” 9. “The Wheel of Ezekiel” featuring The-Dream 10. “Praise Be to God”
No doubt.... I was just listening and figured this one song can destroy any song that came out in the past 5 years from the most popular artists out there. J. Cole, Kendrick and Hov being the only exceptions. just my opinion. Don't bark on a brotha.
Same here bro I'm 20 aswell. Was that same age when I heard it. It was crazy the lyrics and the beats. Just loved it. It sounds like it could have been a hit in the 90's feh real.
Just Blaze blew it out of the f*cking water with this beat, one of the all time great hiphop songs. I will always get goosebumps when I hear Jay say "When I was sleeping train".
Yo I know it's stunning and cunning also now ya like wow how a nicca spit shiot yo so fly and glow like a rainbow just by the way they flow plus bust also aim ya know though no lie gals and pals as if I came from the high temple, busting, and crushing pimples plain and simple.
Jay Electronica made me go and look up his lyrics, not because I didn’t understand anything, but because I wanna see how he structured his verse, his rhymes and punchlines. First artist in a long ass time to make me do so. This man is the goat
My Little Dicky ignorant you need an album to be solidified jay got tracks 3 of them lol but he needs to really prove it some day that he can drop a tape
track better then most albums out ijs. Dude made his imprint in hiphop. maybe it's best he never releases the album. sometimes mfs not ready for the truth. shit might make nigga head explode. Jay saved someone life. ok. horrible excuse. fuq it. enjoy the song n be happy
Lyrics : : When I was sleepin' on the train Sleepin' on Meserole Ave out in the rain Without even a single slice of pizza to my name Too proud to beg for change, mastering the pain When New York niggas were calling southern rappers lame But then jacking our slang I used to get dizzy spells, and hear a little ring The voice of a angel telling me my name Telling me that one day I'mma be a great mane Transforming with the Megatron Don spittin out flames Eatin' wack rappers alive, shittin' out chains I ain't believe it then, nigga I was homeless Fightin', shootin dice, smokin weed on the corners Tryna find the meaning of life in a corona Till the 5 percenters rolled up on a nigga and informed him You either build or destroy, where you come from? The Magnolia projects in the 3rd ward slum Its quite amazing that you rhyme how you do And how you shine like you grew up in a shrine in Peru Question 14, Muslim Lesson 2, dip diver, civilize a 85er I make the devil hit his knees and say the "Our Father" Abracadabra! You rockin with the true and living Shot out to Lights Out, Joseph I, Chewy Bivens Shout out to Baltimore, Baton Rouge, my crew in Richmond While y'all debated who the truth was like Jews and Christians I was on Cecil B, Broad Street, Master, North Philly, South Philly, 23rd Tasker, 6 mile, 7 mile, Hartwell, Gratiot Where niggas really would pack a U-haul truck up Put the high beams on Drive up on the curb at a barbecue and hop out the back like what's up Kill a nigga, rob a nigga, take a nigga, bust up That's why when you talk the tough talk I never feel ya You sound real good and you play the part well But the energy you givin off is so unfamiliar I don't feel ya Nas hit me up on the phone, said what you waitin on? Tip hit me up with a tweet, said what you waitin on? Diddy send a text every hour on the dot sayin When you gon drop that verse nigga you taking long So now I'm back spittin that he could pass a polygraph That Reverend Run rockin Adidas out on Hollis Ave That FOI, Marcus Garvey, Niki Tesla I shock you like an eel, electric feel, Jay Electra They call me Jay Electronica Fuck that Call me Jay ElecHannukah Jay ElecYarmulke Jay ElectRamadaan Muhammad Asalaamica RasoulAllah Subhanahu wa ta'ala through your monitor My uzi still weighs a ton, check the barometer I'm hotter than the muthafuckin' sun, check the thermometer I'm bringing ancient mathematics back to modern man My momma told me never throw a stone and hide your hand I got a lot of family, you got a lot of fans That's why the people got my back like the Verizon man I play the back and fade to black and then devise a plan Out in London, smoking, vibin' while I ride the tram Givin' out that raw food to lions disguised as lambs And, by the time they get they seats hot And deploy all they henchmen to come at me from the treetops I'm chillin out at Tweetstock Building by the millions My light is brilliant.
"I make the devil hit his knees and say the our father" am I the only person who thinks that's one of the greatest lines in hip hop. So much fire Jesus
I will break and make the Devil repent and real ill bold and cold then put Lucifer The Cruefixer alone on chill like a A/C vent then say God it's kinda odd that I bulled and pulled this clown biotch card in his own yard down Hell's boulevard swelled with a swell barred and scarred ya can tell the he-she unusual unisexual weirdo ox figga snot got roughed and stuffed in a box.
I come back and listen to it once a year. A moment in hip hop history when the beat and the rhyme elope and produce a superhuman baby that cures cancer while winning the 100 yard dash at the Olympics. This is what hunger sounds like. Y'all need to go check Exhibit A
transformer spitting out chains, then speaking on addiction etc. man has that imagination and fluidity in his words, makes all words into living dreams man is straight walking art.
The juxtaposition of such a bittersweet, forlornly beat with one of the most inspirational raps I can ever recall, makes for truly an all time classic song. I can’t hear this song without feeling something deep.
I beginning to think Jay Elec never dropped an album because it would fall short of the expectations that are being put on him because of how he snapped on this song. If he doesn’t put out at least 7 songs where he goes nuts, people will call it trash.
Heard this song when I was 15. Now I'm 53 and still hot fire.
hahahahaha
hahahahaha
Haha
😭😭😭😭😭 im dyin
Lol
The best to never do it
LMAOOOO
Fr lol
THAT is an underrated post. LMAO.
fuckin underrated comment
I think he talkin bout Just Blaze
Still 1 of the greatest hip hop tracks EVER recorded!!! still BOPPING IN 2022!!!!
Fire🔥🔥🔥🔥
Facts 💯
Fax
Solidified forever 🔥
Facts
This song needs to be kept in a museum or vault or something like that. It needs to be preserved for future generations to analyze and enjoy
Lmfao 😂 literally so spot on. This shit is unbelievable. Wow
Facts
This song doesn’t even have a good line in it
@@jerrylanes8354"hmm, it’s quite amazing that you rhyme how you do, and that you shine like you grew in up a shrine in Peru"
@@quasimotoz no that’s not it like that’s subpar as hell
by the time Jay drops something the revolution is gonna be hologramed
CptKosher 😂😂😂😂😂😂
funniest comment i seen in a minute
wow thats actually fukkin hilarious I applaud you sir
bruuhhh
loooool
You heard his album was coming out in 40 days and then you came here. You a real one
yessir
Yup
Fam....I really hope it comes out in 40 days cause we been damn near waiting 40 years smh
It's been so long, I forgot about this bum and needed a reminder . I'll keep it real for u.
Were here
this might be one of the greatest rap instrumentals of all time
its a top 20 beat.
but like 15-20.
Along with one of the greatest verses of all time
Come Clean... Jeru Da Damaja...Beat by Preemo
This is pure unadulterated urine boiled on a open flame 🔥
This song is honestly one of the greatest songs ever created dawg. I’m not exaggerating.
It really is, you know it’s special when you don’t know what’s better the beat or lyrics
Jay electronica fans are the most patient ever
Facts
Jay Electronica / Tool fan here ... Sigh..
@@brettdusek Rip lmao, same here
Yes we are! The new album is dope!
@@brettdusek Same 😂 Both are the best at what they do, and I'd rather have quality over quantity. 🤘 I like your diverse taste in music.
I keep coming back to this song like it's a tombstone and I'm placing flowers on it and pouring out a 40 for Jay Elec.
Haha same
#woooord
+Thuro F.A.R. I just let out the ugliest laugh but im right there with you smh *pours out cap*
word
i hear you fam
2024 still jamming. Heard a cat blasting this in traffic and looked it up from the lyrics.. 🔥🔥🔥🔥
Yes
I remember hearing this on the Boondocks Season 3 trailer, it was mindblowing then and I still come back to this track so many years later!
I used to listen to this in middle school then revisited years later and it sounded totally different because I lived some life and could relate and understand to it. I don’t even know how I found this when I was a kid
Soon as I heard it I went to uploading smash banger frfr
Pretty sure that was a fan edit, but it slapped so much I thought it was official too. A classic
"They call me Jay EleAnnotatectronica - fuck that
Call me Jay ElecHanukkah, Jay ElecYarmulke
Jay ElecRamadaan, Muhammad A'salaamaleikum
RasoulAllah Subhanahu wa ta'ala through your monitor"
HUH?????
XD
Word toughest part of the song I salamalakum to that
I love the song... I especially love that part of the song... but if you read Arabic... you will know that it rhymes... all you need to do is fit the english words to the surah or ayat of your choice and you got bars on top of bars... he had great placement though... Jay Electronica rules!!!! But that line wasn't magic... If he had finish the surah he would've hit you with about 10 more bars of pure truth....all rhyming and on beat.... Jay Elec is a beast....
James Crawley yea u ritee.. i do speak arabic but that was a good move, he didnt wana put the surah in the song along with curse words or his other bars. He get respect for that and even that part alone in his verse is respectable. Two birds one stone
One of the greatest songs ever. Any era, any genre. Lyrics are just on a completely different level, and of course, Just Blaze blesses us with another timeless beat.
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yessuh.!
same
This is one of the greatest hip hop records ever recorded.
Alex Mathew Mendoza 😢ery time I hear dis shit
No way, it’s a very good track but I have many tunes what sit above this from the 80s early 90s
@@Rosco-P.Coldchainnot possible.
No it’s not this shit trash
Man, I forgot about this gem of a track. So refreshing
this is what I hate.. there are so many great songs I do t think about at all or that I have forgotten. sometimes a gem pops up in my recommended here and there but still
I follow Josh Otusanya, Haha 🤣
oh shit josh here
My F@@kin word son!....Damn.
This shit is hot garbage highly overrated not one single line was good this basic ass shit
Did this nigga just say "I'll make the devil hit his knees and say the 'our father"?
I'm amazed. Truly.
Even if the album never materializes, let it be known: "Ex C" is one of the top 10 rap songs ever recorded.
I COULDNT AGREE MORE YESSSSS!!!!!!!!
I don't get the hype, it sounds like a bunch of Sean Price songs and there's some good lines, def better than 95% of hip hop now, but why is it a top 10 song? Am I missing something here?
@@keanecarlin3890 its every line. Dude spoke about being homeless...not just homeless dude was a nomad coming from the south to the midwest and north east. It's more than just lines, Jay elect is literally spitting science, religion and mathematics here. Also the constant references to his name and the tying it to Nikola Tesla.
When I first heard this song I felt like I never heard anything like it before. different....its the energy this joint is gospel.
Jay Electronica is a special life form.
Truth!
Exhibit A tho
Still bumpin this in 2018 because it's timeless
AestheticVibe yeah man
Same here, bro. A timeless classic.
nigga dropped one of the greatest songs ever and dipped
he had some great feature verses recently
Lol
This shit garbage frfr
😂
😂😂😂 ayo I was wondering what happened to him!
Song will literally never get old
2014 i still bump this
LivingOnAudio me to
release dates tell you nothing about the quality of the music kid ...
not impressed that you "still bump this in 2014"
OriginalSliz Okay lol gtfo "kid"
Unfuckwitable that's the problem with hip hop if you play throwback shit niggas get emotional when they play trap music and I'm a fan of trap music too I dnt complain about them niggas "content"smh bro these aint rookie Jordan basketball cards you talking hip hop fuck release dates sales and comparisons
"Too proud to beg for change masterin the pain..." so many hip hop quotables in this 🔥
Yeah, that line gets me everytime
I shock you like an ill electric field, Jay Electra!
That line is fckn Hard
2019 and I'm still wishing for more new HipHop like this....a brother can dream right???
Tony Goins
Where tf u been at ?
It’s been here, never left...
Don’t tap on the Fox this kinda of stuff was considered trash for a while now smh probably why he never bothered dropping an album. It’s sad
I'm finna bring it back.
Mark my words.
Tony Goins always gotta come back to get the feel
Not happening .. this era has came and went. Mumble rappers took over and it's mindless rap that get airplay now
“Giving out raw food to lions disguised as lambs” the greatest line I’ve ever heard
Never throw a stone n hide your hand
You're truly gifted.
Real talk player!!!!
That and "make the devil hit his knees with the our father"
@@donovansweet142 word that line was hard
"Call me Jay Elec-Hanukkah,
Jay Elec-Yarmulke Jay Elect-Ramadan,
Muhammad as-salaam-alaikum
RasoulAllah Subhanahu wa ta'ala through your monitor' VERY POWERFUL!!! 🔥 🔥 🔥
Translation tho?
Yamaka*
@@proudson3409 No, "yarmulke" is the correct spelling
@@justtense9598 “Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala” means "the most glorified. the most high"
If it was only so simple to explain
If Detox was an artist...
Lmao
Seriously. 😂
Trung Le 😂😂😂😩✊🏿
funny
lol the realest shit I read in all these comments
18 years from now he gonna come out with Exhibit Y....and still no album.
+justin williams haha nice one
😂😂😂
justin williams yiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiite!
not at this rate
Exhibit G tho.
I remember exactly where I was when I heard this song. I was at work browsing a hip-hop forum and everyone was talking about the song. I remember having that shit on repeat for like a month straight. Probably one of the dopest tracks I ever heard.
I would have loved to see a Dilla and Jay Electronica album. The genius of that album would have melted 85% of the average listeners brains.
He spit on that dillia beat he gave for Nas. (The season)
Two geniuses would have def exploded our eyes
Infact the whole universe
Trinidad Onassis I see what you did with that 85% line
Facts
The biggest “what if” I’m hip hop history
David Tibbs Capital Steez
iSay Hi true
apparently not anymore
Big L, Pun and The D.O.C.
Albums out
Who still bumping this in 2019? Jawn is a classic! 👏🏾
Prince Shamach every time listen I feel so proud to be a Muslim
Rndmusr Nme ayyeee
I am
@@benicioperez6801 leave pride alone... but i feel you
My fist held high✊
One of the best songs EVER. Hip Hop wise and actual wise
Still to this day one of the best rap songs I've ever heard. Clever rhyme after clever rhyme. Not one trash filler bar on this beat
Jay Electronica's debut album will be titled 'Detox'
Who still pushin' this in 2018???? I AM....
No More Rat Race it’s timeless bro
Classico! 2018 and forever!!!
PRESENT
🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
I just had 2
Literally one of the best rap songs of all time.
Just Blaze is one of the goats of hip hop producers dont hear him mentioned enough in that discussion
Dizzy Day This statement is an absolute fact!!
Idk man i hear him pop up in producer top 5s on the regular.
Dizzy Day daaamn riiiight kiiid he's a dope producer
I think it's because Kanye left him in the dust after 2004.
Trudat
50 years from now this song will still enlighten rappers to think before they speak.... epitome of a classic
One of the greatest hip-hop tracks ever
100 my peeps, we gone just gone crown Jay elct as a timeless MC! Hes that dope. I was going over all his discography..and MAN.....what he spits really will transcend through time as a MC up there wit Pac and BiG and Jay Z..
The stuff hes be saying ...the intellect and knowledge of it all and the insightful depth...is soooo TRUE MC stuff.Real Talk!😀
No he's not even in their league. To me he's a wanna be Nas Type nicca rapping. That's who he sounds like to me. I can take it to this guy.
Best verse he ever did, shout out to just blaze to for creating this legendary beat and all the others
Call me Jay ElecHanukkah, Jay ElecYarmulke
Jay ElecRamadaan, Muhammad A'salaamaleikum
RasoulAllah Subhanahu wa ta'ala through your monitor
OTF Mexican 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
OTF Mexican SUPER DOPE!
OTF Mexican I never heard a artist spit in Arabic... I say halleluyah and Baruch hashem... All praises to the Most High our Father ❤❤❤❤
translate please
EFH Jay elecramadan Muhammad peace be upon him prophet of god in gods name I’m coming through your monitor.
still Bumping this in 2016😩
I'll be bumping this in 2026!
Hell Yeahh!
TMAC13reloaded 2017
TMAC13reloaded still bumping this in 2017 😭😭😭
still bumping this in 2018 😩
one of the most legendary tracks to ever exist
Its so wild listening to something when youre younger, then coming back when youre older/more understanding.. man this record a road map forreal
10 years later & still 🔥🔥🔥🔥💯💯💯💯
Herd this song when I was 10. I'm 16 now STILL fire...
I'm fucking 32 and I'll probably die before he'll drop that goddamn album.
let us join hands in prayer... in hopes of an end to the drought.. 🙏
***** haaaahah
Rip capital STEEZ
MrFALLENHER0 This isn't Jay Steez. This is Jay Electronica. Even tho King Capital is. THE best
Quality over quantity...I ain't even mad. I can listen to this joint all day, every day.
Too bad that's not the reason there isn't any quantity.
@@chriswellz5993
1. “The Omnipotent Event”
2. “The Ghost of Soulja Selim”
3. “Blinding” featuring Travis Scott
4. “The Eternal Tale”
5. “The Cosmic Soldier”
6. “The Brilliant Suit Theory” featuring The-Dream
7. “Intensive Flowing”
8. “The Fruits of the Soul”
9. “The Wheel of Ezekiel” featuring The-Dream
10. “Praise Be to God”
This better live up to the hype
@@jean522 10 years of hype.. man we patient af
Ghouls of soulja slim go hard hard d
@@CarlosMartinez-ou9gt my favorite joint
Check out my open letter to Jay Electronica ruclips.net/video/mfXzXnDmUTo/видео.html
That third verse - 3:04 to 3:54 - may be the finest fifty seconds in the history of hip hop. Holy shit.
I've heard better...
No doubt.... I was just listening and figured this one song can destroy any song that came out in the past 5 years from the most popular artists out there. J. Cole, Kendrick and Hov being the only exceptions. just my opinion. Don't bark on a brotha.
+Signl2noizFL J. Cole is corny as fuck and how are you gonna put Hov in the elite level in the last 5 years? Sorry to bark on a brotha but bruh
+Trevor Plays you must be new to hip-hop then.
I don't see the big deal with dat 50sec
Lmao im still hoping this nigga drops something.
Lol
+msapryl J lmao
+Sharp WHX
Right! This nigga's songs come in like leap years! lmao
Dia Akin rs hes talented af to.
Oh he's a ridiculous artist! I haven't heard anything from him that wasn't dope! We just need more. The game needs lyricists like him.
Heard this when i was 14 lol im 20 now and its stilll flamez🔥🔥🔥👌
One of the best raps I ever heard
KickingitSolo hell yea
He went off on this shit. Heard this when I was in 9th grade now I'm in college crazy how fast time goes by
John Rhimes same bro
Same here bro I'm 20 aswell. Was that same age when I heard it. It was crazy the lyrics and the beats. Just loved it. It sounds like it could have been a hit in the 90's feh real.
Just Blaze blew it out of the f*cking water with this beat, one of the all time great hiphop songs. I will always get goosebumps when I hear Jay say "When I was sleeping train".
I’ve been waiting on this album since I was ten years old I’m nineteen now. Smh. 😤
I've been waiting since 23. I'm 32 now
IT MIGHT BE HAPPENING
Evander Holyfield he does? Lmao
My mother was a virgin when this came out and now I am 52 and Jay still hasn't dropped this damn album, that its how long I have been waiting.
Just grow old bruh lol. I've been waiting and it ain't happening 😣😣
It's quite amazing that you rhyme how you do and that you shine like you grew up in a shrine in Peru! (this kills 90% of the rap game)
Yo I know it's stunning and cunning also now ya like wow how a nicca spit shiot yo so fly and glow like a rainbow just by the way they flow plus bust also aim ya know though no lie gals and pals as if I came from the high temple, busting, and crushing pimples plain and simple.
He can only kill and make or take weak geek kinda emcees
Nigga you aint lying
It gets more layered, as in the 80s, there was a rebel group in Peru called "Shining path"
@@dondaddan also the Palestine prophecy book where the manuscript is found in peru
Wild to think people spent months debating Kendrick and drake when this just exists on the internet to be found. Glad I was there for interesting rap
That diddy hit me up every hour bar ain’t age well 😂
😅
😮💨
HAHAHA I KEEP THINKIN THAT
The baŕ was understood clearly through a lyrical prophet.
“ you either build or destroy where you come from “ hard
Little Auld 🔥
8
"The name of the song doesn't matter, you're still gonna feel empty inside" Miller, Noel
What?
"You posted up here 3am depressed. We out here"
Jazz59107
ruclips.net/video/ABfFgs0ylUI/видео.html
This is what he’s talking about
I WAS LOOKING FOR A NOEL COMMENT #sadinternethoehour
11 years later, this is still his greatest track! 🔥🔥🔥
Nigga this shit weak lmao
13 years later? And still better than all the music presently in 2023!!!!!!
First heard this shit on Boondocks and fell in love with it. Never gets old. #Classic
Where was this in the boondocks!?
The season 3 trailer and I think in a fight scene for the hateocracy episode
Co sign! One of the best trailers ever. Labeled Patti LaBelle. Boondocks and Jay!! CLASSIC!!!
Jay Electronica made me go and look up his lyrics, not because I didn’t understand anything, but because I wanna see how he structured his verse, his rhymes and punchlines. First artist in a long ass time to make me do so. This man is the goat
Top 100 greatest Hip Hop Records of all time...With no album...this is Light Work! Light Years ahead of it's time.
Top 10 bruh...easily
Legend says Diddy is still texting him every hour
2019 Jan 1st still on this masterpiece. Blessings to all.
It’s been about 2 decades and this song is still crazy🔥🔥🔥 timeless music
Him and Lupe have to be the most underrated underappreciated lyrical talents
Lupe platinum
“I’ll make the devil hit his knees n say the Our Father” 🤦🏾♂️💪🏾
Rite 👍✅ 💯 💯💯💯💯
🔥🔥🔥
Power🔥💪🏿
He don't need no album , Just drop another song like this.
Amen
no. every rapper needs an album... especially if your this good...
😂
Word up yo....that's what the truth is
My Little Dicky ignorant you need an album to be solidified jay got tracks 3 of them lol but he needs to really prove it some day that he can drop a tape
Fuck if he don't drop an album this shit here is enough
nah
+akhim abdullah how u gone say nah to my opinion? LOL
Sometimes you just gotta disagree lol.
track better then most albums out ijs. Dude made his imprint in hiphop. maybe it's best he never releases the album. sometimes mfs not ready for the truth. shit might make nigga head explode. Jay saved someone life. ok. horrible excuse. fuq it. enjoy the song n be happy
+akhim abdullah true facts
9 years later, still top 10 hip hop songs ever made
life has never been the same since i heard this. possibly some of the best audio ever created.
Lyrics : :
When I was sleepin' on the train
Sleepin' on Meserole Ave out in the rain
Without even a single slice of pizza to my name
Too proud to beg for change, mastering the pain
When New York niggas were calling southern rappers lame
But then jacking our slang
I used to get dizzy spells, and hear a little ring
The voice of a angel telling me my name
Telling me that one day I'mma be a great mane
Transforming with the Megatron Don spittin out flames
Eatin' wack rappers alive, shittin' out chains
I ain't believe it then, nigga I was homeless
Fightin', shootin dice, smokin weed on the corners
Tryna find the meaning of life in a corona
Till the 5 percenters rolled up on a nigga and informed him
You either build or destroy, where you come from?
The Magnolia projects in the 3rd ward slum
Its quite amazing that you rhyme how you do
And how you shine like you grew up in a shrine in Peru
Question 14, Muslim Lesson 2, dip diver, civilize a 85er
I make the devil hit his knees and say the "Our Father"
Abracadabra!
You rockin with the true and living
Shot out to Lights Out, Joseph I, Chewy Bivens
Shout out to Baltimore, Baton Rouge, my crew in Richmond
While y'all debated who the truth was like Jews and Christians
I was on Cecil B, Broad Street, Master, North Philly, South Philly, 23rd
Tasker, 6 mile, 7 mile, Hartwell, Gratiot
Where niggas really would pack a U-haul truck up
Put the high beams on
Drive up on the curb at a barbecue and hop out the back like what's up
Kill a nigga, rob a nigga, take a nigga, bust up
That's why when you talk the tough talk I never feel ya
You sound real good and you play the part well
But the energy you givin off is so unfamiliar
I don't feel ya
Nas hit me up on the phone, said what you waitin on?
Tip hit me up with a tweet, said what you waitin on?
Diddy send a text every hour on the dot sayin
When you gon drop that verse nigga you taking long
So now I'm back spittin that he could pass a polygraph
That Reverend Run rockin Adidas out on Hollis Ave
That FOI, Marcus Garvey, Niki Tesla
I shock you like an eel, electric feel, Jay Electra
They call me Jay Electronica
Fuck that
Call me Jay ElecHannukah
Jay ElecYarmulke
Jay ElectRamadaan
Muhammad Asalaamica RasoulAllah
Subhanahu wa ta'ala through your monitor
My uzi still weighs a ton, check the barometer
I'm hotter than the muthafuckin' sun, check the thermometer
I'm bringing ancient mathematics back to modern man
My momma told me never throw a stone and hide your hand
I got a lot of family, you got a lot of fans
That's why the people got my back like the Verizon man
I play the back and fade to black and then devise a plan
Out in London, smoking, vibin' while I ride the tram
Givin' out that raw food to lions disguised as lambs
And, by the time they get they seats hot
And deploy all they henchmen to come at me from the treetops
I'm chillin out at Tweetstock
Building by the millions
My light is brilliant.
thank you good sir
Yerp
Still bumping this in 2019!! I'm from 3rd ward NEW ORLEANS, 6th street count Magnolia Projects... La Salle Street!!
Every now and then I come back to this song to remind myself to keep pushing.....dreams do come true 🔥🔥🔥✊✊✊
That's a fact!!
It would for me, except for the fact that’s the exact opposite of what electronica did.
@@fettywapsmissingeye that's what makes his rise more iconic....
"Dip diver
Civilize an 85-er
I make the devil hit his knees and say the our father"
Jesus christ....
They call me Jay Electronica, fuck that, call me Jay Elec-Hanukkah, Jay Elec-Yamaka, Jay Elec-apusahmmomatmathua mashikadghska matataaa.
he kills that verse jay elec yamaka verse
Breaking Cycles if you were Muslim you would know what that meant.
Word to Allah thru ya monitor*
Jay Elect-Hannukah, Jay Elect-yarmulke, Jay Elect-Ramadan-Muhammad AlSalamika*
@@martintraphagen3698 hotter than the motherfucking sun, check the thermometer
"I make the devil hit his knees and say the our father" am I the only person who thinks that's one of the greatest lines in hip hop. So much fire Jesus
Lol if you're a theist, I can see how it's a powerful line.
+MortalMan dont need to be a theist to resonate with good writing
Yes it is one great line I can't stop listening to
That's supposed to be a classic rhyme bar. I can do better than that.
I will break and make the Devil repent and real ill bold and cold then put Lucifer The Cruefixer alone on chill like a A/C vent then say God it's kinda odd that I bulled and pulled this clown biotch card in his own yard down Hell's boulevard swelled with a swell barred and scarred ya can tell the he-she unusual unisexual weirdo ox figga snot got roughed and stuffed in a box.
Almost 8 fucking years later. This boy had MF doom level potential, why would you throw that away.
fr tho.
MF DOOM >>>
@@MarkanVaran7 hence MF DOOM “potential”
This song is still amazing as it was in the winter of 2009 when I heard it the first time driving back with my friend after snowboarding lol
shout out to anyone who is still listening to this classic song till this day.
And you know this
Brooklyn Luxe hell yea this A, lupe food and liquor, pharaoh monch, Lalib kweli and more.
Has to be one of the illest songs I’ve ever heard PERIOD
All these years and I still ain't hear a line that goes as good as "I make the devil hit his knees and say the Our Father"
What the fuck that's hard bro
Imagine writing a line like that and being able to to spit it and deliver it like that man that'd be a whole different feeling man...
"while yous still debating who's the truth like Jews and Christians"
I come back and listen to it once a year. A moment in hip hop history when the beat and the rhyme elope and produce a superhuman baby that cures cancer while winning the 100 yard dash at the Olympics. This is what hunger sounds like. Y'all need to go check Exhibit A
Wtf!! I feel like a caveman finding fire. This that heat!
Prometheus
g m old
Lmao
Lol!!!
That's actually a good bar pimp
transformer spitting out chains, then speaking on addiction etc. man has that imagination and fluidity in his words, makes all words into living dreams man is straight walking art.
imma be tight when its February 47th and the album still hasn't dropped
It's out
donjosue1000 and it’s trash
The juxtaposition of such a bittersweet, forlornly beat with one of the most inspirational raps I can ever recall, makes for truly an all time classic song. I can’t hear this song without feeling something deep.
I beginning to think Jay Elec never dropped an album because it would fall short of the expectations that are being put on him because of how he snapped on this song. If he doesn’t put out at least 7 songs where he goes nuts, people will call it trash.
He's long over due
gotta thank blueprint for starting the careers of 2 of the greatest producers of all time
Kanye blessed us for decade know haha
people sleep on Jus
Kanye been producing since Ma$e was down with Harlem World though.
"Too proud to beg for change, Mastering The Pain" 2009 - 2019 n Beyond.
Words can't truly express the mastery of this timeless classic.
jay electronica album coming out with detox, (DOUBLE DISC)
That's funny bruh!!
like shit boi
Lmao!!
LOL
demetris harris lol that’s some shit.
"I'm out in London, smokin', vibing while I ride the tram. Giving that raw food out to lions disguised as lambs."
There are no trams in London.
London does have trams.
@@SilverSnark Where?
@@Rufusdos Croydon and few other places
Jonathan Holleb 🤦🏾♂️
Killing em softly
"Trying to find the meaning in life in a corona"
Drops his album during the coronavirus pandemic, it is fate indeed Jay Elec
🤧 yea a little strange.
oh my god
"till the 5 percenters (Jay elec and Jay z) rolled up on a nigga and informed em"
Is this now a triple entendre ? Lmao
I guess line is in reference of corona meaning crown in Spanish (Crown/Jesus)
"It's quite amazing that you rhyme how you do, and that you shine like you grew up in a shrine in Peru." Pure 🔥
Everyone waiting on Frank Ocean and I'm still stuck on this man
lmao, same
Me too
We got Frank, now I need new Jay Elec and a 3 stacks album, and life will be whole
Yes! Never listened to the Ocean, just being Frank! Jay Elec is the best!
I wish mainstream was underground and vice versa. Id like to wake up or get off work to this...
With cd's and mp3 players you now can! Radio doesn't determine what we listen to anymore! Freedom!
There are these new things called iPods...
nigga you got an ipod
Who doesn't?
Nicky Hunter Took 5 years to get that amount of views tho..
"I got alot of family, you got alot of fans. Thats why the people got my back like the Verizon man!"....Hip Hop quotable right there!
Now the Verizon man switch to Sprint lol (on commerical )
I hear this when I was about 15 and I’m 29 rn and he literally murdered this track