Jay Electronica is a New Orleans-bred rapper who, at least in my opinion, has some enormous amount of unwarranted hipster hype. I think the guy is talented and all, but really, remember when rappers had to actually make records for people to pay attention to them? This guy just got the coffee shop and internet nerd cosign and has been touted as the second coming of… of… well, I don’t know. He’s just got a hype that doesn’t match his creative output.
Anyway, Jay opened up for Mos Def at the Nokia Theater this weekend in New York, and according to post at Parlourmagazine.com, he bombed atomically,
“At the show, this fool was DETERMINED to tell us stories from his childhood in the ‘Nolia (aka New Orlean’s Magnolia Projects).
Telling the audience that his sister made him tell this story about some dude named Dirty Joe, Jay essentially got boo’d into rapping. Smh…then Erykah came onto the stage and the crowd went wild while she song some song I’d never heard. Then when Jay lost the crowd again with personal anecdotes, he screamed Do you wanna see Mos Def?’ like Mos was coming onto the stage. But Mos is notoriously late to all of his shows and he wasn’t popping up because I bet diamonds to apples, that man Mos wasn’t even in the building yet. Smh. Also, for a rapper to name drop on stage like that is the equivalent of a lazy club DJ playing that damn ‘Mixtrack! You gotta $50 bill put your hands up!’ Fatman Scoop record. Boo hiss.”
