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Remember When Jay Electronica Was the Best Rapper Alive?

With the New Orleans rapper making appearance on the new Ransom & Dave East tape, we take a look back at some of his best early songs.

I’m not sure why they didn’t go with the album art Fake Shore Drive ‘s Andrew Barber tweeted when he announced the tape because it made too much sense to fashion after the Nation of Islam’s newspaper. “Have you ever ever ever been depressed so bad, it was a struggle every day not to regret your past?/ Feeling cursed like you never ever get your swag/ And you was speeding down the highway when your threshold passed/ When you cried all your tears out/ And one page of your diary can tell you what your year ’bout/ That’s a lonely place.” Both times were memorable, too — I saw him at the Knitting Factory in Brooklyn for a Phife Dawg benefit concert, and then again at a Yasiin Bey show on Martin Luther King Day when Elect was piping hot.

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