At some point, he joined the Nation of Islam at another, he signed with JAY-Z. New York, Philadelphia, the Mid-Atlantic, Colorado, Atlanta, Detroit. But most of the time Jay just seemed content to play it with a depth others hadn’t-or couldn’t-consider, then duck back into his life.īorn Timothy Elpadaro Thedford in New Orleans in 1976, his biography is scattershot, more collage than big picture. But Jay’s course never quite seemed clear, even to him: years between tracks, more than a decade before his first album (2020’s A Written Testimony)-who does that unless he thinks he’s really worth the wait? And yet, the music bore out: dense, lyrical, imaginative, and deeply earnest. The talent was obvious: When your first singles are “Exhibit A” and “Exhibit C,” you don’t have to fight for a seat at the table. When Jay Electronica broke in the late 2000s, it felt like a little bit of prophecy fulfilled.
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