Now Act II has leaked in its entirety online, and includes sixteen songs in. Act II: The Patents of Nobility never actually saw a release date even after it was initially announced in 2009. The album again seemed imminent in 2010 after Electronica signed to Jay-Z’s Roc Nation, and then again in 2012 after he shared the tracklist, but the project never materialized. Jay Electronica’s long-awaited, Act II: The Patents Of Nobility has finally surfaced online nearly a decade after it was first set to be released. Act I was released that July and the rapper initially said that Act II would be out by Christmas, per DJ Booth. Jay Electronicas long awaited album Act II: Patents Of Nobility will drop in 2014, according to the rapper, himself.

As Pitchfork notes, the decision to release Act II seems to have been prompted in part by a leak of the album that began circulating online in recent days.Īct II has essentially been in the works since Jay Electronica released his debut mixtape, Act I: Eternal Sunshine (The Pledge), on MySpace in 2007. Weve heard it all before.But this time its coming from the horses mouth.

Jay Electronica also collaborated with Charlotte Gainsbourg on one track (“Dinner at Tiffany’s”), while another song, “Bonnie and Clyde,” features her late father, Serge Gainsbourg, whose song of the same name is sampled heavily. If anything it seems like Jay Electronica wanted this album out, label people said to cut down the samples and as an artist he probably didn’t want to release a version of Act II he didn’t believe in. Act II was originally released on SoundCloud by Electronica’s manager in October 2020, but the album’s skeleton was officially released on TIDAL soon after. The album is available via Tidal and features contributions from Jay-Z, The-Dream, LaTonya Givens, and the Bullitts. Jay Electronica tells DJ Semtex during an interview that Act II is done and hes planning to release the project on Sept. Jay Electronica has finally released his album, Act II: The Patents of Nobility (The Turn), eight years after first revealing the tracklist and 13 years after first teasing the project.

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