its locked in my country
any other source?

Accurate feeling tbh

NEED LANK

Piano Mane reviews (after multiple listens) and the art of moving goalposts.

So, it's by nowhere means a bad album. Not at all.

It's just...when you been tuned in to this new orleans nigga since Act 1 dropped on myspace and b****es were raving about it (and you know how shorties dont really care about lyrics like that my g), you get confused at what comes after 10 years being an 8 track (The shiny suit theory doesn't count. That s*** is 10 years old yo. Yall moving the goalposts right there for not being real about that.) Jay Z album featuring Electronica 'nahmean?

"Piano Mane why you say that?"
Because Hov was steering the ship on this b****. I wouldnt be suprised if son was the one pushing and made him do this album. He been on this spiritual s*** since...spiritual in 2016, 4:44 concreted that new direction for son. I'm glad this is how we're getting new music from him though.

Speaking of, this nigga Hov is the greatest rapper of all time. But this was established 3 years ago. It don't surprise me at this point anymore cause I just expect it. Niggas acting suprised he spazzed on Flux (which is a horrible beat btw. Yall can't create memes about how bad EAST is as a beat and then come back and say s*** like this s*** is god level yo. Stop moving the goalposts for the NOI's version of The Game.) you can give him a beat with just the sound of turtles f***ing each other with a waterfall in the background and he'll make that s*** rock y'herd?

Out of this album only 3-4 tracks give me a "this was a Jay E album" vibe: The Shiny Suit Theory, The outro, The Fruits Of The Spirit, and The Ghost Of Soulja Slim (but only if Jay Electronica was spitting like it was 2009 again...fuck that. If he was spitting like he did on Coloring Book)

How many times I gotta hear this nigga mention the honorable louis farrahkan and Jay Z and The Roc? Remember, we be deadass killing other rappers for name dropping niggas all the time. Stop moving goalposts cause you want this album to be great 'nahmean?

@benihana is kinda right that the first 3 tracks are kinda where the highs of this album are. At least that's what a Jay Electronica project in 2020 should sound like. Everything else before the outro are kinda dated, like this would've been great to have gotten....back in 2012 when we were actually waiting in mass for this nigga.

Also Ezekiel's Wheel is a boring track. Like so boring. Like. It should not be 6 minutes. That hook is so out of tune and they did my son Dream wrong by not letting him do another take on that my g. Also hearing you repeat "catching a body" over and over doesn't enthuse me yo. Not from you or Hov.

^ 2/2

Another thing I aint like is how f***ing pleased of himself this nigga seems to be on this Jay Z album like he doing us a favor. Like...everytime you mention (and ezekiel's wheel was where it really got me pissed off) why you left and you say lines like "And the wee hours of night, tryna squeeze out bars
Bismillah, just so y'all could pick me apart?" or s*** like "Why come for so many years you been exempt?"
'Cause familiarity don't breed gratitude just contempt" ) and it's like...

B**** nigga welcome to Hip Hop. You aint the first rapper to deal with this nor the last. What makes you so f***ing different besides other gifted lyricists that have been there and done that? This would not be an issue, if you had not put anything out between 2010 and now. Y'know what f*** it yo, this would not be an issue, if you had just did your features like Andre and that was IT. But you was taking SHOTS at niggas, other niggas that have been deadass providing the rap game with music for years while you was busy going viral for f***ing ugly billionaire p**** my g. Throwing random shots at a Kendrick Lamar (who yall KNOW I been critical of forever) is ok and won't do anything to breed contempt....but following through on an album will?

And NOW the only way you're coming back is on an 8 track Jay Z album BRAGGING about it ("this a highway robbery") that you keep son's name in your mouth like a groupie my guy?

while you slept, niggas like Mach Hommy, Navy Blue, Mavi (really the whole sLUms crew but those 2 just stick out the most), and Griselda woke tf up and filled a void that honest to god you wasn't doing for years. Star Wars metaphors and New Orleans imagery aint gonna impress us the same way it did back in 2009. Plus, it sounds like son has become mad light on the pen. Almost like @mashallahwallahi said, like he's become a parody of himself.

Until the outro. Let me just say that s*** was f***ing beautiful son. I'm not gonna lie and say that s*** didn't make me shed a tear. But THAT was the Jay Electronica that I was missing for this entire album. The nigga that made words move and painted a picture that made you feel s***. Not the nigga that's the rapper spokesperson for the Final Call (and I know son always been NOI but he was way more smooth/subtle about it back in the days than now). It's because of that outro that makes me mad at this Jay Z featuring Jay E album.

Cause why is the 50 year old nigga spitting with more hunger on majority of this album than the 42 year old that ACTUALLY has something to prove?

And niggas not acknowledging this or keeping it real, is why yall gotta stop moving the goalposts for certain niggas.

This was a cool collab album. Not a "classic." it was cool. No way I'm calling this a debut album when Jay Z's all over this from direction to the damn verses y'herd? It's cool to hear people just spitting but...it's not as impressive when we have so many new niggas out here in that same field now that are doing it...kinda better than son. It's not as empty and barren as it was in '09.

I'm out yo.

^ not reading that lol

I'm white but s*** got me like

He's a 5 percenter not traditional Muslim

Nigga did you even eat breakfast or brush your teeth?

Waking up with all these words

This is really a bar you could've seen in that "bar predictions" thread a few days back

stfu

nah, I grab the strap before I brush my teeth my g.

why is jay electronica on flux capacitor rn?

what strap u referring to?

where is the hov only link

PARTYNEXTDOOR is credited as a writer on ‘The Blinding’

Fact

Huh wtf

sampling Louis Farrakhan is already an instant yikes

Wrong

Fruits of the spirit

hiphop-n-more.com/2020/03/jay-electronica-jay-z-a-written-testimony-album-production-credits