Jay Electronica - Exhibit A

Oh my days. If you listen to one thing I post all year, make it this. This is the most exciting rap I've heard in weeks. It's Jay Electronica on top of a shweeeet Just Blaze production.

The lyrics are something else: he name-drops Harriet Tubman, mentions hurricane Katrina and Elohim (and rhymes the latter with Coretta Scott King).

Jay Electronica - A Million In The Morning

I knew I would love this from the moment the beat dropped. It's got this gorgeous G-funk sound (R.I.P. Warren G) that is simple, tuneful and memorable: the perfect vehicle for Jay's wordy verses. The drums on this are lush too: I love the bloopy bass at the start of every other bar, and the stuttering snares. An incredible instrumental for sure.

And those lyrics are something else - some of the best writing on insomnia since Kevin Young's Serenade (which you can read right at the bottom of this blog post)