Jay Electronica

Jay Electronica is an up-and-coming emcee and producer from New Orleans. He is widely praised for his lyrical style and music which sometimes use samples from film soundtracks, such as “Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind”. Although he hasn’t released a full-length album, his library of songs is already growing, with some of his most popular songs being “Act 1: Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (The Pledge)”“, “Exhibit A” and “Exhibit C”. Active in large online communities, Jay somehow seems to stay below the radar while still staying on everyones minds. There are a number of projects with his name attached to them such as a 9th Wonder collabo called “Big Brother”, as well as music with Just Blaze, Guilty Simpson and more. If you are sleeping on this cat, you are missing out tremendously.

Here’s a little hip-hop quotable from the man himself, from the track Exibit A:

I spit that, wonder rhymer shit, me and my conglomerates /
shall remain anonymous, caught up in the finest shit /
get that type of media coverage Obama get /
spit that Kurt Vonnegut, that blow your brain, Kurt Cobain, that Nirvana shit/
who gone bring the game back? who gone spit that Remo on the train tracks?
that gold rope, that 5 finger ring rap/
runnin with my same pack, you can find the Christ
where the lepers and the lames at.

Look out for more from Jay Electronica coming very soon. Act II is due to drop any day!

RECAP:
Download:New Beginning (Forever) [I named this myself...]
Download: Victory (Mixtape)
Listen: Act 1: Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (The Pledge)
Listen: Exhibit A (Produced by Just Blaze)
Buy: Exhibit C EP (iTunes)
Check it out!: Jay Electronica’s Myspace, Twitter, Facebook

Homeboy Sandman

Meet Homeboy Sandman – the first Ivy League graduate ever to take the hip hop world by storm. His masterful rhymes combine playful humor with sophisticated wit, creating songs to engage your heart and your mind.

Here’s the first post of for the week, and it’s a little video that Subway sponsored about NYC emcee Homeboy Sandman. Check it out, I’ll hopefully get to some more posting today but news has been slow lately.

Homeboy Sandman – Not Pop / Arist Profile

If you frequent pretty much any hip hop blog on the internet, you’ve definitely come across some shots taken by TONE. Now he’s beginning to produce short video profiles on musicians he knows in and around NYC. Like the video above, which showcases Homeboy Sandman and his song Not Pop. Good stuff, I’m already looking forward to the next one.

Source: 2dopeboyz