{"id":245517,"date":"2020-06-20T05:44:33","date_gmt":"2020-06-20T12:44:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/?p=245517"},"modified":"2020-06-20T08:02:06","modified_gmt":"2020-06-20T15:02:06","slug":"a-written-testimony-by-jay-electronica-jay-z-review-the-greatest-album-of-all-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/20\/a-written-testimony-by-jay-electronica-jay-z-review-the-greatest-album-of-all-time\/","title":{"rendered":"A Written Testimony by JAY ELECTRONICA + JAY Z Review: The Greatest Album of All-Time?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I currently rate <a href=\"https:\/\/genius.com\/albums\/Jay-electronica\/A-written-testimony\">&#8216;A written testimony&#8217; by JAY ELECTRONICA<\/a> as the greatest rap album (of all time) thus far.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Why this album is the GOAT<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1308\" height=\"1144\" data-attachment-id=\"245521\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/20\/a-written-testimony-by-jay-electronica-jay-z-review-the-greatest-album-of-all-time\/screen-shot-2020-06-20-at-8-44-04-am\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Screen-Shot-2020-06-20-at-8.44.04-AM.jpg?fit=1308%2C1144&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1308,1144\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Screen-Shot-2020-06-20-at-8.44.04-AM\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Screen-Shot-2020-06-20-at-8.44.04-AM.jpg?fit=1308%2C1144&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Screen-Shot-2020-06-20-at-8.44.04-AM.jpg?resize=1308%2C1144&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-245521\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Screen-Shot-2020-06-20-at-8.44.04-AM.jpg?w=1308&amp;ssl=1 1308w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Screen-Shot-2020-06-20-at-8.44.04-AM.jpg?resize=768%2C672&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Screen-Shot-2020-06-20-at-8.44.04-AM.jpg?resize=1024%2C896&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Screen-Shot-2020-06-20-at-8.44.04-AM.jpg?resize=920%2C805&amp;ssl=1 920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><figcaption><a href=\"https:\/\/genius.com\/albums\/Jay-electronica\/A-written-testimony\">Tracklist in Arabic on Genius<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>A written testimony (<a href=\"https:\/\/tidal.com\/browse\/album\/134189334\">on Tidal<\/a>) or on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_nM6CLeGikzPxHn_WK262c4M9chZ1lTt3U\">YouTube<\/a> is the greatest. Why? My thought:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>It took 10+ years to make,, how can it <em>NOT<\/em> be good?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"A Written Testimony\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/videoseries?list=OLAK5uy_nM6CLeGikzPxHn_WK262c4M9chZ1lTt3U\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Jay Electronica as the best rapper of all time?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>I rate <a href=\"https:\/\/genius.com\/artists\/Jay-electronica\">JAY ELECTRONICA<\/a> as the best rapper of all time. JAY Z is the best business person + rapper of all time. Kanye West is the best multi-faceted artist of all time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Arabic, Islam in Rap Music?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>You remember when Americans were so anti Middle East, Islam, and Muslim people? JAY ELECTRONICA is re-writing that narrative. Same goes with Muhammad Ali. Ali was the original Muslim convert in the African American community &#8212; super dope.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Just good music<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>A written testimony is so good because it is just good music. It puts you in a good mood. It uplifts you. It has variety, soul, and flavor. The more you play it, the better it gets. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I currently rate &#8216;A written testimony&#8217; by JAY ELECTRONICA as the greatest rap album (of all time) thus far.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":245519,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-245517","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-posts"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Screen-Shot-2020-06-20-at-8.43.59-AM.jpg?fit=1536%2C1532&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245517","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=245517"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245517\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":245527,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245517\/revisions\/245527"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/245519"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=245517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=245517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=245517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}