#i got SO hyped when i saw a lil number on my activity bar and then saw the words WIP GAME right after

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WIP Game ✍️

Rules: make a new post and share 1-2 sentences from your most recent unposted WIP(s) with zero context – Let your followers guess!

thank you @esorydoolb for the tag~ I love stuff like this!

both of these are recent things i started for my OC Cobalt! Because I'm insane about him <3

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“If either of those Keepers find you in here or just not in your room, they’re gonna kick us out!” “They gotta find me first, don’t they?”

I heard two people gasp and every other hand vanished from the planchette, followed closely by my own. “Phone, phone, where is my phone-” Ellie’s muttering cut off into a yelp of fear as something in front of us moved through the pitch blackness and a loud clatter echoed from some distant corner of the room.

literally no pressure ever from me besties, prommy, but...

gamers? @captains-price @floralpascal ?

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Jay Electronica - A Written Testimony ALBUM REVIEW

I never thought that I’d ever get to write this review. During my last radio show of 2019, the very last question I asked my friend was if he thought that Jay Electronica would put out an album in the 2020s and we laughed and said absolutely not. This is because we have waited so damn long for one album. The very first words said on Exhibit C (one of the best songs ever) are “it’s coming.” Nothing came. On Road To Perdition, Jay Electronica finishes one of his verses with “I been patient.” His fans have def been more patient. Since 2009, the incredible songs Exhibit A and Exhibit C have been the only official Jay Electronica releases. However, there are a handful of fantastic songs that he’s put out on Soundcloud randomly. If you haven’t heard songs like Jazzmatazz, The Announcement, Dear Moleskine, Dimethyltriptamine, and Victory Is In My Clutches, do yourself a favor. All we’ve ever wanted from Jay Electronica was an album and because it took so fucking long for it to come out, all we wanted was more music. The last song we heard from Jay Electronica was in 2017. I understand that great art takes time to make and that you have to experience life in order to put it into the art but Jay Electronica has had plenty to say for a while. Plus he had been teasing it for so long. The highly-anticipated debut album, Act II: Patents Of Nobility (The Turn) was announced not very long after Jay Electronica signed with Roc Nation in 2010. I really want to know what that contract looked like because it was ten years ago and he hadn’t dropped anything at all. Ever since I started doing my most anticipated albums list every January, I have included Act II on every single list because I knew it wasn’t going to come out. Even when Dr. Dre and Lil Wayne released their long-anticipated albums I still knew that Jay Electronica wasn’t dropping. Making the fans wait a long time for an album can be both good and bad. A long wait can be rewarding because great music takes time to make but if you let the expectations build for such a long time, they might be so high that they can never be met or the fans could eventually just stop caring. Last year, I went to go see Jay Electronica live and yes, he did have enough songs to put on a full show. Of course, fans asked him about the album and he laughed it off, saying “my life is an album” and that people know him as “Erykah Badu’s baby daddy who only has two songs.” I was a little kid when Act II was announced and I had been looking forward to it ever since even though I didn’t think it would come out. Us fans were just constantly let down because he would tweet release dates and tease that the album was coming and we even saw the tracklist for it in 2012. We did eventually get to hear songs from this tracklist such as @FatBellyBella, Better In Tune With The Infinite, Run & Hide, Road To Perdition, Letter To Falon, and Shiny Suit Theory—which actually appears on A Written Testimony. I can see why it’s included: it features JAY-Z, and it’s mixed like the rest of the songs on this album. I have loved that song ever since it dropped in 2012 and I know all the words to it. So now that Jay Electronica finally dropped his debut album after 10 years of waiting, the question most people ask is if the album is as good as you hoped it would be. My answer to this question is fuck yeah. I love this album and it’s really everything I wanted from a Jay Electronica album. Before I get to talking about how much I love this album, I wanted to talk about some of the biggest issues I have. This album starts with some words from Louis Farrakan. He says that “black people of America are the real children of Israel.” This didn’t surprise me because I know that Jay Electronica is an active member of the Nation of Islam but as a Jewish person, I didn’t like the intro at all because 1. it’s just not true and 2. Farrakhan is a major anti-semite. I did feel some of the same sentiments that Peter Rosenberg had about the lines on this album about the “synagogue of satan” and when he said “satan struck Palestine with yet another mortar.” Those lines don’t sit well with me as a Jewish person. I don’t think Jay Electronica is anti-semite and when I saw him last year, he said something like he loves everyone no matter what religion they are which I appreciated a lot. Also, I’ll forever love Jay Elec not just because he’s a dope rapper, but because he said “They call me Jay Electronica—fuck that / Call me Jay Elec-Hanukkah, Jay Elec-Yarmulke.” I have seen people say that having JAY-Z featured on damn near every song is cheating and I sort of agree. I was hoping for a “debut album” of just Jay Electronica but JAY-Z is my favorite rapper. I love Hov but I really wanted just a Jay Electronica album. I love what I got but I think it’s fair of me to want just a Jay Elec album. Also, Raekwon’s first album was basically a Ghostface collab and Dr. Dre’s The Chronic heavily featured Snoop. It was odd to me that Hov had the first verse on the album but Lady Of Rage had the first verse on Doggystyle instead of Snoop. Even though he didn’t start the album, Jay Electronica came out the gate swinging. One of my favorite lines from him on this song is “And I bet you a Rothschild I get a bang for my dollar.” Chance The Rapper tweeted that this album is the reason Rap Genius was made and I totally agree because even though I’ve listened to this album so many times, I’m constantly catching new bars. This album doesn’t seem that personal but it can get introspective at times, especially towards the end. For the most part, this albums is just the two Jays rapping their asses off. The Blinding was a perfect mix of both. The first part of the song had me nodding my head so hard and I loved how they went back and forth. I really was not expecting Travis Scott on the album but his short hook sounded great and was a great way to transition into the next beat. I did like how Jay Elec started his second verse with “Extra, extra, it's Mr. Headlines / Who signed every contract and missed the deadlines” which references his song Extra Extra and missing the deadlines of his contracts to drop his albums. Even though this album took 10 years to drop he tweeted that the albums was recorded in 40 days so he had the line “40 days, 40 nights, tryna live up to the hype.” I also like how this line led into “Hov hit me up like, ‘What, you scared of heights?’” because the expectations for this album grew so high just to be recorded in 40 days and he had to take that jump to release it. It is about time we heard Hov over an Alchemist beat and The Neverending Story is just so fucking good. I liked Jay Elec’s line where he said “But if you want beef, I'll filet mignon ya.” The beat on Universal Soldier is so fucking good and it’s one of those loops that kind of left me in a trance. This song has one of my favorite JAY-Z verses on the album and I loved that lyric where he said “We done ducked them fed' charges, now we eatin' confit.” Flux Capacitor was an instant standout because that Rihanna sample is fucking bananas. It seems like a very hard beat to rap over but both JAY-Z and Jay Elec bodied it. This is probably my favorite beat on the album and the beat switch at the end was amazing where the Rihanna sample went crazy. I almost wish that switch led into another verse from them rapping over that beat. The production for this album was very interesting to me because Jay Electronica produced most of it. I was expecting a lot of Just Blaze production because he was so involved with all the hype surrounding Act II but he’s nowhere to be found in the credits of this album. I do love Jay Electronica’s production and I think it fits him  very well. Shiny Suit Theory was also produced by Jay Elec and I feel like it fits in the album very well because the way these songs are mixed which leads me to my other issue with this album. These songs are poorly mixed but it seems very intentional. The songs on SoundCloud that Jay Elec has dropped through the majority of his career aren’t very well mixed either so this is what I’ve come to expect from him. JAY-Z sounds good over these beats too because it’s not like 4:44 had the best mixing either. One of the only songs without JAY-Z on it is Fruits Of The Spirit which is produced by No ID. I do like the way Jay Elec raps on here but I have heard that loop flipped so many times (ex: Talib Kweli - Never Been In Love). The last song, A.P.I.D.T.A. makes the perfect closer to the album in my opinion because it is the most personal. When I heard the hook, “I got numbers in my phone that'll never ring again,” I really did feel it in my soul because it’s a really weird and sad feeling looking through your contacts in your phone and seeing the number and past messages that you’ve sent to someone that died. I feel like this song encapsulates that feeling perfectly. Apparently this song was written the night Kobe Bryant passed away (RIP) and it almost reminds me of Better In Tune With The Infinite because Jay Elec said at the show I went to that he wrote it after his mother or grandmother (I can’t totally remember) passed and that’s one of his most personal songs. The number one questions I see after the release of this album is if Jay Electronica kept up with Hov and if Hov bodied Jay Elec on his own albums. I think both of those questions are up for debate and I could argue either side and the fact that you can do that shows how good this album is. This is top tier lyricism and I’m very happy that Jay Electronica finally dropped his album. I hope this opens him up to putting out more music because I still would like to hear more from him and I would be interested in hearing some of those songs from the original Act II tracklist because I think Jay Electronica could eventually be put in the GOAT conversation but he needs to have a catalog first.

Fav Tracks: The Blinding, The Neverending Story, Shiny Suit Theory, Universal Soldier, Flux Capacitor, A.P.I.D.T.A.