How Real Is the Hype Behind Jay Electronica?

Actually NOT the video for “Exhibit C” but for another Electronica track called, “Dear Moleskin”

This is an amended and expanded version of a couple things I wrote in my Google Shared Items in response to the start of producer, Just Blaze‘s “Buy ‘Exhibit C'” campaign at the end of last year. I was gonna leave well enough alone but then I saw that a blog post by Hot 97’s DJ Enuff entitled, “Why am I not playing J [sic] Electronica on Hot97?” had reignited the battery in Blaze and Questlove‘s backs to relaunch their “Save hip hip by supporting ‘Exhibit C'”, I figured I’d speak up and offer another take on matters.

Before I get into it though, I’ll start by saying I actually am a Jay Elec fan. But while I know a bunch of bloggers have gotten in lockstep to declare “Exhibit C” the best hip hop song of 2009, I’m gonna have to beg to differ. But whatever, taste is really all subjective anyway, right? What I am amazed at though is how what I have termed the ‘Jay Electronica Exception’, came to pass.

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