We and our partners use cookies to personalize your experience, to show you ads based on your interests, and for measurement and analytics purposes. By using our website and our services, you agree to our use of cookies as described in our Cookie Policy. The little material that did trickle out spread like wildfire, and his word-of-mouth popularity was matched by commercial opportunities and connections with established rap celebrities. When his debut album A Written Testimony finally surfaced in , it was easily one of the most highly anticipated debuts of its time. He left that city at age 19 and lived a nomadic lifestyle, moving back and forth between Atlanta, New York, Detroit, and Baltimore, among other cities. He adopted the Jay Electronica alias while living in Baltimore circa As a rapper, he distributed his recordings on the Internet, primarily on his MySpace page. His debut mixtape, Act I: Eternal Sunshine The Pledge was published on his MySpace page in as one continuous minute track that contained five individual songs. High profile co-signs followed, as Erykah Badu , Just Blaze , Nas , and others spoke highly of Electronica's work in the media. Eventually Badu and Electronica would enter a five-year relationship and have a child together.
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What is it with rappers and anti-Semitic rants on Twitter? The New Orleans rapper, 43, attacked a rabbi who was interviewed earlier this month by American television host Nick Cannon on his YouTube channel. Kate Rothschild, 38, pictured left with Jay Electronica in and right, at The Roundhouse in London, finds herself embroiled in a new storm thanks to her ex-boyfriend. Ask him does he stand behind the vile teachings of the [sacred Jewish text] Talmud? He then went on to recommend anti-Semitic passages from the Bible to his , followers. Kate, 38, has been conspicuous in her silence over the comments. Kate caused her family great embarrassment when she began an affair with Electronica which ended her marriage to first husband Ben Goldsmith. Kate and Ben split in after he found text messages on her phone from the American rapper.
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The myth of Jay Electronica has long outweighed the music—in part because there was so little of it. And so with time, the myth grew. What was real and what was fiction began to blur, and what was real mattered less than what was interesting. The wait for his debut album has been so long that it became more of an ancient prophecy than a movable release date. But the album, A Written Testimony , has finally materialized. It is a mystical, distinctive work that nearly lives up to all the lore surrounding the rapper.
Timothy Elpadaro Thedford; September 19, , known professionally as Jay Electronica , is an American rapper, and record producer who first received widespread attention after the release of his debut mixtape, Act I: Eternal Sunshine The Pledge , in , and was signed to Jay-Z 's record label Roc Nation in His debut studio album, A Written Testimony , was released in after years of speculation and delay. He grew up in the Magnolia Projects in New Orleans and attended the all-boys parochial high school St.
