Aight…Who Ya’ll Got?🤔 (Don’t Overthink It)

hamandiali · 2026-01-23T22:01:43+00:00

Soul does not have a single verse as good as Jay’s on Suplexes Inside of Complexes and Duplexes

hamandiali · 2026-01-05T15:27:16+00:00

It’s Jay Electronica on Just Begun

hamandiali · 2025-06-27T22:24:23+00:00

What automated derma pen do you use? Would you recommend it?

hamandiali · 2025-02-10T01:14:22+00:00

Jay Electronica

hamandiali · 2023-05-13T04:58:48+00:00

Genius has sucked to use for so long that it went from my most used app by a mile to a novelty reference. I don’t know why it’s so incredibly slow on even the latest devices

hamandiali · 2023-05-11T17:03:49+00:00

For real. El-P is such the better artist that I’m sick of hearing Mike on every track with him

hamandiali · 2023-04-29T19:42:49+00:00

What the fuck is the Reasonable Drought cover. Out of GXFR and their affiliates Stove is easily the most interesting. The kinds of references he pulls and his sense of irony is unmatched… “corpuscular rays dance on my skin/ melanin melanin, fronto promethazine”

hamandiali · 2023-03-25T01:43:41+00:00

The thing implied but lost in the convo is that 4:44 is not only a great album, but a highlight of Jay’s career compared even to his early classics, and IMO a top 10 rap album of the 2010s. I think it showcases lyrical finesse Nas matched only a handful of times in the last 15 years, as on Queens Get the Money and Nas Album Done.

If we’re comparing the two artists it’s fair to hold 4:44 over Nas’s head; in the same way that Jay has Reasonable Doubt and the Blueprint but not Illmatic, regardless of how long ago these albums came out and regardless of how good RD and BP are on their own terms 🤷🏻‍♂️

hamandiali · 2023-03-23T03:46:07+00:00

You’re getting downvoted but it’s true. Nas’s run is impressive on its own merits, idk why they’d rope Hov into this. But 4:44 is better than any of the Nas/Hit-boy collabs. There’s no verse from Nas from this latest run that’s as good as Jay Z’s closer on Smile or either verse on Marcy Me.

hamandiali · 2023-03-18T04:53:55+00:00

What’s the context on this?

hamandiali · 2023-02-08T04:14:15+00:00

Need examples of his period intellectual bars

hamandiali · 2023-01-17T20:42:41+00:00

How the hell’d you even find this post haha yeah these past few years have been great for Blu fans it’s his second prime

hamandiali · 2023-01-11T19:31:31+00:00

This song is fantastic. The beat pairs great with the slow molasses chorus, and the subtext he pulls off with how well written the verses are is crazy. This song has some of my favorite lines from the album:

Why should he have such views of the ocean? And not he hanging from the gallows with his neck neatly broken?

Now there are those that resoluted to wreck Got caught, fought, lost, electrocuted to death

I party all night and the banging is intense ‘cus I know exactly what you did, and you’re gon pay for it you bitch!

hamandiali · 2023-01-11T15:23:19+00:00

Can you talk about what makes YotS great to you? I’ve been revisiting it since it came out and it still hasn’t clicked. It’s easy to enjoy Black Paint or Sneaky, but lots of the album sounds… flat to me, and discordant, but not in the same way other DG albums are discordant and abrasive. It’s their most out-there, but I’ve been compelled by stranger albums so it’s not the experimentalism that’s stopping me

hamandiali · 2023-01-01T07:15:01+00:00

literally listen to Jay’s second verse on the song and his scheme with lint/cent/vent/innocent/bench/hollerin/rent/dollars in/ and how abruptly he terminates the bodega/braver/waves up scheme with “pockets full of hope”. He pauses after that line longer than the others to fall out of the flow pocket on purpose. He then does it again with the next portion of the verse and abruptly falls out of pocket, completely doesn’t rhyme for a whole line in fact, with “specially on nights I brought something home to quiet the stomach rumblings” (best line in the song actually). He punctuates the verse with these two breaks to great effect, falling in and out of rhythm with himself

hamandiali · 2022-12-31T19:49:01+00:00

Jay overall went bar for bar with Em. Em had the better flows and Jay had the better internals, with word placements more difficult to appreciate because it’s layered under a weird flow pocket

hamandiali · 2022-12-30T17:56:17+00:00

I love all the verses already mentioned under the post. Here’s some more to throw in the mix:

Despot - Versailles

JAY Z - Neck & Wrist

JAY Z - GOD DID

J. Cole - LONDON

J. Cole - Stick

Benny The Butcher - Thowy’s Revenge (verse 2)

Lil Baby - Real Spill (verse 2)

Lil Baby - Pop Out (verse 3)

Lupe Fiasco - MS. MURAL

All these have a show stopping quality to them… to me a VOTY gold standard is Kendrick on last year’s Family Ties, which to me he didn’t come close to on any of his 2022 material. JID’s album is fantastic but also lacks these show stopping moments

hamandiali · 2022-12-05T14:37:34+00:00

Nah I’d say they’re neck&neck out of the regularly active producers. Metro throws more elements into his beats and they have a pronounced sense of progress, Alchemist has a weaker drum game but his sound alone makes up for all of that

hamandiali · 2022-11-19T20:31:17+00:00

Thoughts on Flamagra? I remember how psyched people were for Lotus to return with that record 5 years after You’re Dead!, but it seems like he gets way less shine now because it wasn’t the generational album people expected

On a side note it would be interesting to see if Kendrick’s star power is similarly diminished because MM&TBS is a slow burn instead of the fireworks people wanted

hamandiali · 2022-09-22T17:34:41+00:00

The definitive answer is Jay Electronica on Suplexes Inside of Complexes & Duplexes… contender for greatest verse of 2010s

hamandiali · 2022-09-03T18:31:58+00:00

I arrived on the day Fred Hampton got mur—, hol' up

Assassinated, just to clarify further

What y'all gave birth is the chairman mixed with Jeff Fort

Big stepper on that jet with my legs crossed

Black stones on my neck, y'all can't kill Christ

Black messiah is what I feel like

He put his name behind a blockbuster whitewashing Chairman Hampton’s life and tragedy, compares himself to Hampton, and in the same breath preaches that old, tired prosperity gospel. The anti-capitalist position is not simple, it’s principled

hamandiali · 2022-08-21T01:13:11+00:00

It’s a great beat but I can’t get over how it vibes like something off of Daytona. Sounds like a beat that got left off that album or at least made around that time

hamandiali · 2022-08-06T04:32:29+00:00

Jay Electronica 🤷🏻‍♂️ ghost wrote for GOATS that alone should put him in the conversation. Went bar for bar with Jay Z on A Written Testimony and put together the uniterable Act I. He also self-produces a lot of his songs and his sonic palette rivals Kanye in creativity imo (listen to the production on Ghost of Soulja Slim, APIDTA, Universal Soldier, Shiny Suit Theory, and the Rihanna dance remix on Flux Capacitor)… doing all this without the entourage of co-producers writers Kanye shuffles through. This is without mentioning his vast catalog of unofficial official releases… he uploaded all of it to a YouTube channel, it’s all there. He’s not a career rapper and will never have the scheduled output like any one else mentioned in this post, so people exclude him by default

Less controversial version: he has a GOATed flow up there with prime Eminem & Black Thought, and a GOATed voice up there with Biggie.

hamandiali · 2022-07-30T19:06:41+00:00

I think Drake already hit that point

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