Jay Electronica - Exhibit C
"My Uzi still weigh a ton check the barometer. I'm hotter than the motherfucking sun check the thermometer."
Album: Exhibit C EP
Genre: Hip Hop, Conscious Hip Hop, Southern Hip Hop
Release: December 22nd 2009
Length: 5.31
Producer: Just Blaze
Vocalist: Jay Electronica [age 33]
Label: Decon Records
Audio
Live in New York from 2010
Charts, Streams & Sales
Spotify: Over 26 million
YouTube Music: Over 10 million
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Details
- Jay Electronica said that Just Blaze made the beat in 15 minutes.
- The cover of the EP is a reused photograph of Nikola Tesla. Tesla is sitting calmly while one of his eponymous Tesla coils displays the awesome power of electricity by shooting lightning through the air around him. I think that Jay Electronica, by his choice of this photograph for the cover of his EP, in typically humble hip hop fashion, believes that the power of his record is on par with the power of electricity.
That is to equate his EP, which is comprised entirely of different versions of this one song, with one of the most important discoveries in human history. Pretty potent stuff. In the photograph, Tesla is staring at his notepad while he ignores an almost unignorable surrounding, so engrossed is he in the creation of something truly astonishing that he can barely bring himself to look at it.
Nikola Tesla, focusing on the input while ignoring the ouput - Despite been released directly to iTunes, in 2009, and having no record label of note to support it, this track managed to break into the Billboard Hot Hip Hop & R&B Chart.
- Benny the Butcher released a version in 2010.
- AZ released a version.
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