Definitely. Lmfao i personally love the auto tune “i say YEEAAAAEeeaaaeeaaEEAAAEEEYYYEEAAAAHHHHHHH”

ok just listened to the mastered version

life on mars went into a different stratosphere, where did these vocals even come from?

Act II,even in a slightly unfinished state,is really something special.

This is great, but if we ever get it finished

Also, I want to hear Jay score a movie because he’s heavily influenced by soundtracks

Not denial, just a fan theory

He always wanted to put out lo fi unconventional s***, it was part of his aesthetic – a commercial label doesn’t allow that, not in 2012

I think Act 2 is spectacular, quintessential JE in some parts, and mid at others

Looking back, it’s a shame how much pressure was on him

He quoted Jay
“He said it has no singles on it, though, but it’s his favorite record.”

Don't think Quest had even heard it himself (or that he'd even talk that way tbh lol)

Wondering which songs from Act 2 were made when

LoM dropped 2010, and you can hear in the first second of the OG the bleed in from Patents of Nobility - so that was made <2010 as well

Nights: “34 trips around the hot sun” - 2010-2011

Bonnie & Clyde sounds 2011 (any mention of Roc Nation is post 2010 probably)

New Illuminati has the WTT line, so late 2011-2012

How can an album exist but sounds like it doesn’t exist at the same time?

mysterious music

Very mysterious but very good at the same time

where an i get the mastered version

Can’t lie tho,this whole album is really unmarketable. Closest thing I can compare with Act II to is early 2000’s MF Doom albums.

Tidal Master Quality

Dj Khalil really had to deal with one of his hardest beats ever just sitting in a vault for 10 years...

Some of these lyrics though, imagine if this did come out in 2012? I genuinely think it could have been a classic that year, and Jay would have spent the decade in rivalry with kendrick

Yeah that doesnt mean that jay said he wants a single on it though just that he recognised there isnt a single.

Wow

Tbh I think New Illuminati might turn out a "feature" just like Hov on Perdition and Ronald Reagan, maybe he just did a short skit, or an interview was sampled, etc. Rough Love was definitely meant to be a verse tho

I dunno. I think coming from Hov that could def be voicing dissatisfaction on some level, or be an issue to him as a labelhead. I mean why would he specifically point it out? But yea it's not a lot to go on

I dont think so, or it probably would already be in the song, and scarves said it's a verse

This was good.
Felt like a mad scientist hidden manifesto

FAX

something so f***in calm bout hearing the ronald reagan sample