Dre scrapped the expectation-bogged Detox for Compton, Jay Elec (mostly) starts fresh here. “From a hard place and a rock to the Roc Nation of Islam/I emerged on the wave that Tidal made to drop bombs,” he raps on “Ghost of Soulja Slim.” From this well of deep faith, he summons rap performances that seem to defy space-time. In just under 40 minutes, Jay Electronica erects monuments to Allah, NOI founder Elijah Muhammad, and Roc Nation overseer JAY-Z, who is at his side for nearly the entire album serving as sergeant-at-arms. But it’s also a record about the scrutiny of an insatiable public, one that leans on higher powers amid self-doubt. First and foremost, it is a prayerful offering that expresses the many spiritual and communal virtues he has internalized. It is a mystical, distinctive work that nearly lives up to all the lore surrounding the rapper. The wait for his debut album has been so long that it became more of an ancient prophecy than a movable release date.īut the album, A Written Testimony, has finally materialized. The selection of songs Jay Electronica has released over his career has drawn from all of this, only he’s put out as many of them in 13 years as some prolific rappers put out in a few months. The ghostwriting claims were disputed, he has never released a song with an original Dilla beat, and many count him as a footnote left in Kendrick’s wake, but he did actually end up between two of the wealthiest families in England. What was real and what was fiction began to blur, and what was real mattered less than what was interesting. The couple, who were married in 2003 and have three children, separated briefly for three months after blazing rows over Goldsmith's closeness with Jay.īen Goldsmith is expected to file for divorce on the grounds of adultery.And so with time, the myth grew.
The truth is, it had been going on a lot longer than that." "She accused him of trying to block her career as a record producer and categorically denied they were anything more than friends. It emerged this week that Goldsmith had fiercely denied having an affair with a US rapper when initially confronted by her suspicious husband.Ī source told the Telegraph: "Kate accused Ben of being paranoid and claimed he was trying to control her. The heiress to the Rothschild banking dynasty also claimed that she had also been cheated "several times" in a message that she later deleted. She added that her marriage went "bad years ago and none of you have any idea what I went through along with my husband". "As for Jay Electronica, he saved my life in many ways and I am eternally grateful to him and I hope that I can repay him by helping him, as his manager and friend." She wrote: "I love my husband, he is a brilliant and incredible man, but relationships go wrong. In 14 revealing messages, she claimed that Electronica had "saved my life" and addressed the harsh criticism of supporters of her Eton-educated husband. Their marital rows have erupted online over the last few days after Goldsmith called her "appalling" for her extramarital relationship. The 29-year-old defended her relationship with the hip-hop star Electronica, who has signed to the Roc Nation label, in the latest twist in the saga of her bitter split from her husband, multimillionaire Ben Goldsmith.
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Kate Goldsmith has revealed in a series of Twitter posts that her affair with US rapper Jay Electronica saved her life. The estranged wife of Ben Goldsmith has defended her affair with US rapper Jay Electronica Reuters/MySpace
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