When Coachella first started in 1999, Coachella was a couple of stages and a dance tent. Tickets were $65. A couple stands sold hot dogs and Cokes. Now, tickets start at $375. Gourmet menus and VIP packages. Coachella seems to take over the music industry every year, at their Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival. Coachella have always gave us great music and unforgettable performances.
You may remember in 2011 Coachella brought back the west coast king Tupac via hologram to join Snoop Dogg and Dr.Dre on stage. Tupac also performed some of his classic's like "Hail Mary" and "Amerikaz Most Wanted". Even if you were fortunate enough to see Tupac live in concert while he was alive. Seeing Tupac even though it was a hologram I am sure it was a unbelievable feeling to see a legend along side his old label mates again. Coachella is also a good plateau for artist like Asap Ferg or groups like Blood Orange who performed at the 2014 Coachella, to expand their fan base. This allow for artist to get their music in a different market. It also help broaden listeners music horizons, listening to different artist and genres. This year at Coachella they once again flexed their power bringing out the some of the hottest artist like Pharrell Williams and bringing back one of the greatest rap duo's ever Outkast.
The legendary Outkast back together again on stage,my original post was gonna be "ATLiens", but i thought i should touch on Coachella as whole. The reunion of Outkast had everyone excited especially the hip-hop heads at this year Coachella. After a six-year hiatus Outkast finally took to the stage again. Giving us two great performances, at both cochella weekends performing their classic tracks like "B.O.B", "Ms.Jackson", and "So Fresh So Clean".
Jay Electronica is a rapper, but some my call him a Wizard, Poet, Activist, Philosopher, or a Preacher. I call him mysterious because you may know what most rappers are working on, or doing in their spare time but not with Jay Electronica. Jay Electronica first gained significant attention in the industry after the release of the musical composition Act I: Eternal Sunshine (The Pledge), which was made available on a MySpace page in 2007 and has been called a "timeless classic" by Vice Magazine. It is fifteen continuous minutes of music, without drums, built from Jon Brion's soundtrack to the film Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind where Jay showed his unorthodox style and deep revolutionary lyrics.
In 2009 he linked up with legendary producer Just Blaze and released two singles "Exhibit A" and "Exhibit C". "Exhibit C" which won a Sucker Free Summit Award for Instant Classic and was my first in counter with Jay Electronica's music. The beat was what first caught my ear, produced by legendary producer Just Blaze you would of thought he'll save a beat of this stature for a multi Platinum artist and not a underground rapper with one mix tape with four tracks. As I heard it more and more I realized he was the perfect artist to rap over this amazing instrumental mixed with a Billy Stewart sample. Just Blaze understood only a special artist could make you forget how great the beat was and only focus on the incredible lyrics.
Jay Electronica was born Timothy Elpadaro Thedfordon September 19, 1976, in the Magnolia Projects of New Orleans. Jay began rapping after hearing his nephew Akeem Pryor rhyme. By the age of 19 Jay Electronica left New Orleans to pursue his musical career. Living a mostly nomadic lifestyle, he found refuge in cities such as Philadelphia, Baltimore, Detroit, New York, and shortly in Atlanta. From club to club, and stage to stage, Electronica had gotten booed because of his Southern accent and slang. "In my earlier years when I first left home, I was embarrassed from being from the South," Jay said "not in general, but as a rapper because all of the negative things that people in the States put on the South."
Jay's career really took form in Detroit when he linked up with Detroit native Johnnie Last, a friend he had spent a lot of time with at Darp Studios in Atlanta. In Detroit, Electronica met producer/engineer Mike "Chav" Chavarria, who introduced him to both the late great J. Dilla, and Mr. Porter. It is here that he recorded his Style Wars-era music with several J.Dilla beats, meeting the producer subsequently to ask for permission to use the recordings as a demo. In November 2010, Jay-Z announced that Jay Electronica was officially the newest member of his Roc Nation imprint. Before signing to Roc Nation in 2010, Jay Electronica was a prospective signee of Bad Boy Records, a label owned by Sean “Diddy” Combs, with whom Jay is professionally close with.
Jay Electronica has yet to release a full-length album, but he keep teasing us with leaked singles. Recently he appeared with Big Sean and Kendrick Lamar on the "Control" track that had the rap game going crazy because Kendrick took shots at the upcoming artist including Jay Electronica. I still hold my ground saying that Electronica had the best verse on "Control" Kendrick verse was hot but if he didn't name drop it would of been another hot Kendrick verse. Jay leaked his first song in 2014 in March "Better In Tune With Infinite" Ft. LaTonya Givens. Giving us what he always do which is bars and knowledge combing the two so eloquently over a slow soulful beat with Ms. Givens harmonizing in the background. Now the rap game is just waiting on Jay Electronica to drop an album or another single anything to hold the fans off until he's ready to take the game over he has all the potential to, but will he capitalize from it do he want to?
You may remember in 2011 Coachella brought back the west coast king Tupac via hologram to join Snoop Dogg and Dr.Dre on stage. Tupac also performed some of his classic's like "Hail Mary" and "Amerikaz Most Wanted". Even if you were fortunate enough to see Tupac live in concert while he was alive. Seeing Tupac even though it was a hologram I am sure it was a unbelievable feeling to see a legend along side his old label mates again.
