Jay Electronica

Jay Elec drops some new tunes during SXSW. Listen to "Better in Tune With the Infinite” below. Jay Electronica and director Jason Goldwatch sat down from the Mass Appeal showcase at SXSW and chopped it up. Jay spoke on his new record “Better in Tune With the Infinite,” listen below. ...

A story was reported in Dailymail that Jay Electronica is a bad influence to his girlfriend Kate Rothschild, a mother-of-three and heiress to one of the world’s most illustrious banking dynasties. The once married housewife in 2005 went through a total transformation since then, leaving her affluent husband Ben Goldsmith in 2012 after he found out of Kate and Jay's year long affair while reading h

Just Blaze chopped it up with Noisey and the super-producer listed his top pet peeves. While explaining what annoys him most as a musician, the Blueprint collaborator shared a funny story on the origin of him and Jay Electronica's lengthy friendship stemming from the Exhibit A rapper stealing his screen name...

It's been a hell of a year for hip-hop, with the big dogs all dropping albums, the underground bubbling like never before and a crop of up-and-comers putting out some of the best music in years. But with so much great music floating around, hip-hop fans were bound to miss some things...

You can’t recap the year in albums and mixtapes without songs. 2013 was packed with all kinds of records that everyone couldn’t get enough of. There were songs that stayed on repeat like Drake’s “Started From The Bottom,” street anthems that echoed through neighborhoods like Meek Mill’s “Levels” and Billboard Hot 100 scorchers like Eminem’s “The Monster” that dominated radio play. Just like every

Jay Electronica's long-delayed debut album, Act II: Patents Of Nobility, is almost completed, according to Jay Elect's producer, Just Blaze. Blaze claims in an interview with Vlad TV that the album is "pretty much done" except for a few, small additions and tweaks to the upcoming LP...

In an interview with Vibe.com, Jay Electronica revealed that he wanted to release Big Sean's "Control" on his upcoming album. Prior to the leak of the song a few weeks back, Jay Elect had expressed a desire to take the track for his himself after Big Sean told him that the song would not be coming out on Big Sean's Hall Of Game...

Rapsody blesses us with one more track before her DJ Drama-hosted mixtape, She Got Game, comes out tomorrow. Rap fans are treated to her collaboration with Little Brother’s Phonte and Jay Electronica on “Jedi Code.” Over choice samples and slick drums, Rapsody brings her exceptional rhymes alongside two of hip-hop decorated lyricists. This needs to be...

It has been four days since the release of Big Sean's "Control" on Monday Night and there have been a flood of responses to Kendrick Lamar's verse on the song. It is no exaggeration to say that the rap world has not been this abuzz with a song in years.  One of ...

All this talk about the king of NY has us wondering what the "up and coming" have to say about the matter. XXL would like to hear from the newbies with a reply to Kendrick's controversial "Control" verse. Send in your verses to XXL@XXLmag...

It has been a little more than 48 hours since the occupying force of Kendrick Lamar declared himself “King Of New York” on his monumental verse on Big Sean’s “Control.” Hip-Hop has been served notice that Kendrick has claimed superiority over his peers, putting himself on the pedestal of the greats. Newtonian physics tell us...

As the hip-hop community continues to digest the aftermath of Kendrick's corner-claiming guest verse on Big Sean's "Control," the other guest rapper on the track emerges from the shadows t0 offer his thoughts on this instant classic song. In ...