With a gaudy no class chain and a fitted turned backwards Jay Electronica – Prelude to a Freestyle
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In today’s hip hop people glorify wack music and that most rappers of today are uncreative and don’t even belong in the game, but hide behind chains and hats. Jay’s gonna leave these people behind
I'll pop a hot slug in the back of a thug
My chrome rims is spin *blurts out*
Back to reality
These niggas gone mad with the fairy tale mentality Jay Electronica (Ft. Sinister Sam) – Not A Disturbance
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Change his family’s current situation, not only physically but mentally and psychologically too. The “caves” references hankers back to Plato’s “Allegory of the Cave”, which establishes a cave as ignorance
But I can slay a devil when I see one Jay Electronica – Annakin's Prayer
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She never lived long enough to see Jay grow up. But what she thought him did help him later in his life, as the faith she instilled in him inspired him to fight the Devil later in life
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Nigga, what you scared of?
Terrorize these artificial rap niggas and spread love, pollinate they earbuds
Like you supposed to, spit it for the culture Jay Electronica (Ft. JAY-Z & The-Dream) – Shiny Suit Theory
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With all the buzz Jay has garnered, particularly after “Exhibit C”, combined with his skill and vision, there should be no need for him to hold back and not rise to Puff’s challenge
Note the “pollinate”/ “ear buds” wordplay too, and the fact that this image suggests that Jay’s music brings life
Fighting artificiality in hip-hop is a very common motif throughout Jay’s music
And let 'em go, let 'em go, let 'em go, let 'em go Jay Electronica (Ft. JAY-Z & The-Dream) – Shiny Suit Theory
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In the world of no justice and black ladies on the back of buses
I'm the immaculate conception of rappers-slash-hustlers
My God, it's so hard to conceive
But it all falls perfect, I'm like autumn is to trees Jay Electronica (Ft. JAY-Z & The-Dream) – Shiny Suit Theory
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In this crazy, unfair world where Rosa Parks had to give up her seat, Hov is the child of rap and hustling – and it’s not luck that he made it this far; simple luck can’t raise you to the heights that he has reached
The immaculate conception is the doctrine of Mary’s freedom from original sin, thanks to the anticipation of Jesus. So Jay alludes to being the Jesus of hip-hop. Since “immaculate” also means perfect, he also suggests that he’s the perfect combination of rapper and hustler
Even though Jay’s success and his likening himself to Jesus is hard to believe, given his roots, he assures you that it’s all true – as surely as leaves fall in autumn
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Jay Electronica is a spiritual man known for his retreats to Hindu or Buddhist temples. His religiosity expands worldwide (Japan to Mexico!)
If this is in fact a brag, though, it seems to contradict his negative use of “shrine” above, so Jay could be referencing his own (and man’s) sheer imperfections by being in touch with those shrines
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Hitler ‘was who he was’ due to Germany’s defeat in WWI – it instilled in him a dangerously passionate nationalism. J is saying Channel 4 – representative of American media in general – also promotes nationalism excessively
If Hitler was who he was due to Germany’s Defeat then Jay is going through the same frustration due to the negative views of his people through mass media (channel 4 news)