Recently, Hip Hop hermit Jay Electronica hit the tweets with a slew of messages announcing a new song he would be releasing which would change the game and bring him back to the light in a style similar to his 2009 modern classic “Exhibit C.” For 12 hours, Jay Elec would tweets out small messages detailing what exactly was going down in an unknown studio somewhere in the New York City area. Appearances by the Mobb Deep duo and Roc Nation engineer Young Guru kept the internet on it’s toes as to what new song what would released.

After a small eternity, the track was finally released;

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As many of you are already aware, Jay Electronica is the 2nd signee to Jay-Z’s label Roc Nation. His first artist, the lyrical monster J Cole, recently released his debut album “Cole World: The Sideline Story” which garnered an impressive 215,000 sales amid a slew of less lyrically inclined artists. We’ve also seen the newly crown King of the West Coast Kendrick Lamar spit rhymes of deep thought and emotion and how he’s also gained a large following. Now comes to bat the next rap swordsman who is promising to bring the “real rap” back. So, I have to ask, although its already almost 2 years in; is this new decade promising to bring back the real rhymers, and not those who are more defined by their ad-libs than their actual lines? Assuming Jay Electronica manages to gain the attention of the same crowd Cole won over, his success should only be inevitable, seeing as this is the very same man who 2 years prior was considered the 2nd Nas and the 3rd Rakim. He’s already been given co-signs from some of the greatest to ever do it including; LL Cool J, Mos Def, Talib Kweli, Bun B, Jay-Z, Nas, and more. If he does come through, will this spark others to follow suit?