[00:12.12]It's coming
[00:20.47]Ladies and gentlemen
[00:21.52]This time around the revolution will not be televised
[00:29.36]As we proceed to give you what you need
[00:34.27]'09, mothafucka! Get live, mothafucka!
[00:40.12]Ladies and gentlemen of the court
[00:42.63]In the hearing against The State of Hip-Hop Vs. Jay Electronica
[00:47.64]I present: Exhibit C
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[00:50.99]When I was sleepin' on the train
[00:52.03]Sleepin' on Meserole Ave out in the rain
[00:54.96]Without even a single slice of pizza to my name
[00:57.99]Too proud to beg for change, mastering the pain
[01:00.91]When New York niggas was calling southern rappers lame
[01:03.84]But then jacking our slang
[01:05.30]I used to get dizzy spells, hear a little ring
[01:08.12]The voice of a angel telling me my name
[01:11.15]Telling me that one day I'mma be a great mane
[01:14.08]Transforming with the Megatron Don, spittin' out flames
[01:17.21]Eating wack rappers alive, shittin' out chains
[01:19.93]I ain't believe it then; nigga, I was homeless
[01:22.96]Fightin', shootin' dice, smokin' weed on the corners
[01:25.89]Trying to find the meaning of life in a Corona
[01:28.71]'Til the Five Percenters rolled up on a nigga and informed him:
[01:31.63]"You either build or destroy. Where you come from?"
[01:34.87]- "The Magnolia projects in the 3rd ward slum"
[01:37.59]"Hmmm… it's quite amazing that you rhyme how you do
[01:40.31]And that you shine like you grew up in a shrine in Peru."
[01:43.23]Question 14, Muslim Lesson two: dip diver, civilize a 85er
[01:49.50]I make the devil hit his knees and say the "Our Father"
[01:52.43]Abracadabra! - You rocking with the true and living
[01:55.35]Shout out to Lights Out, Joseph I, Chewy Bivens
[01:58.49]Shout out to Baltimore, Baton Rouge, my crew in Richmond
[02:01.62]While y'all debated who the truth was like Jews and Christians
[02:04.44]I was on Cecil B, Broad Street, Master
[02:07.16]North Philly, South Philly, 23rd, Tasker
[02:09.77]Six Mile, Seven Mile, Hartwell, Gratiot
[02:12.80]Where niggas really would pack a U-haul truck up
[02:15.62]Put the high beams on, drive up on the curb at a barbecue and hop out the back like "what's up?!"
[02:21.47]Kill a nigga, rob a nigga, take a nigga, bust up
[02:24.40]That's why when you talk the tough talk I never feel ya
[02:27.33]You sound real good and you play the part well
[02:30.04]But the energy you givin' off is so unfamiliar; I don't feel ya
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[02:35.27]We need somethin' realer!
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[02:38.30]Nas hit me up on the phone, said "What you waitin' on?"
[02:42.06]Tip hit me up with a tweet, said "What you waitin' on?"
[02:44.98]Diddy send a text every hour on the dot sayin':
[02:48.01]"When you gon drop that verse? Nigga, you taking long"
[02:51.04]So now I'm back spittin' that "he could pass a polygraph"
[02:53.76]That Reverend Run rockin' Adidas out on Hollis Ave
[02:56.79]That FOI, Marcus Garvey, Niki Tesla
[02:59.61]I shock you like an eel, electric feel, Jay Electra
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[03:03.17]Oh my God! Keep going!
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[03:05.88]They call me Jay Electronica – fuck that
[03:08.08]Call me Jay ElecHanukkah, Jay ElecYarmulke
[03:11.42]Jay ElecRamadaan, Muhammad A'salaamaleikum
[03:14.66]RasoulAllah Subhanahu wa ta'ala through your monitor
[03:17.27]My Uzi still weighs a ton; check the barometer
[03:19.99]I'm hotter than the muthafuckin' sun; check the thermometer
[03:22.91]I'm bringing ancient mathematics back to modern man
[03:25.84]My mama told me, 'never throw the stone and hide your hand'
[03:28.97]I got a lot of family, you got a lot of fans
[03:31.80]That's why the people got my back like the Verizon man
[03:34.83]I play the back and fade to black, and then devise a plan
[03:37.65]Out in London, smokin', vibin' while I ride the tram
[03:40.68]Giving out that raw food to lions disguised as lambs
[03:43.29]And, by the time they get they seats hot, and deploy all they henchmen to come at me from the treetops
[03:49.25]I'm chillin' out at Tweetstock
[03:50.71]Building by the millions, my light is brilliant
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[03:58.34]I rest my case
[03:59.28]'09, Act 3, first chapter of the end
[04:06.49]The last chapter of a new beginning
[04:09.93]If it's so? The things we doing we not even tryin'
[04:16.10]Be better than a lot of y'all records, don't get mad
[04:18.50]Morning after, world premier;
[04:21.64]Me? For real though – I ain't even gonna say nothing
[04:34.49]Matter of fact, I don't even why I'm saying this
[04:36.06]Jay, you should get Puff to do this over
[04:40.76]We moving out, onto the next record
[04:44.42]And um, I'mma let this just ride, ride, ride, ride… haha