Jay Electronica surprise-released his new album A Written Testimony: Leaflets on September 19th. The project opens up with an appearance from Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs.
Combs appears at the beginning of the song ‘Abracadabra’, hyping up the project and wondering if his vocals will even see the light of day.
The Bad Boy boss says, “They want me to talk some shit/ Talk some shit about my n*gga Jay Electronica/ I hope he put out this motherfuckin’ album/ And you ain’t bullshitting, for real, man/ ‘Cause people gotta feel that real soul, you know what I’m sayin’?”
He adds, “Hip-hop is in a very, very dangerous place, you know/ Give them that shit, you know I’m sayin’?/ Liven up they souls, lift up they vibration/ That’s what God sent you here to do, you know?”
Combs is currently behind bars at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn. He was found guilty of two counts of transportation to engage in prostitution earlier this summer.
He will be sentenced on October 3rd and faces up to 20 years behind bars, with each charge carrying a maximum 10-year sentence.
On another track on the album, “Four Billion, Four Hundred Million 4,400,000,000 / The Worst Is Yet To Come’, Jay talks about living with Combs.
He raps, “I was living with puff and cash and never showed up in the affidavit/ I’m a smoother criminal than Michael Jackson maybe.”
Electronica almost signed to Combs’ Bad Boy Records in the early days of his career, but ended up inking a deal with Jay-Z’s Roc Nation.
He re-released his 2020 album Act II: The Patents of Nobility (The Turn) on September 19th, as well as A Written Testimony: Leaflets. Then, on September 21st, he shared another project titled A Written Testimony: Mars, the Inhabited Planet.
