Jay Electronica

In an interview with MTV a few months after “Exhibit C” dropped, Jay revealed that he and Just Blaze [who sampled Billy Stewart's "Cross My Heart'] spent 15 minutes cooking up the song, with the purpose of getting it played on Angela Yee’s Sirius Satellite radio show, where they were scheduled to appear. Jay Electronica: We never went on the show. We fell asleep in the studio. I forgot the song existed. I didn’t hear it again until I heard it on Tony Touch’s [satellite radio show]. I was mad. Even when he played it on the show, he said, ‘I’m gonna get in trouble for doing that.’ The next day [the song] was all over the Net and people were asking for the CD-quality version. It grew legs on its own. It’s amazing to see.: bit.ly

The title of the track refers to the chemical DMT which your body naturally produces when you dream. Jay Electronica admits he wrote this song after a crazy dream and after watching something on TV about the JFK assassination. -- Jay Electonica sampled Dilla's "Phantom of the Synths." That song featured a sample of Giorgio Moroder's "(Theme from) Midnight Express."

2010 song, released online, produced by Jay Electronica, who raps about advice given to him by Sean Combs. The song is Jay Electronica's first collaboration with Jay-Z, who sent in his verse by email as an effort to sign Jay Electronica to a record deal. The song later appeared on Jay Electronica's debut album, 'A Written Testimony', released in 2020, ten years later.

Jay Electronica mourns his mother's death and wrestles with the pain death brings him on "A.P.I.D.T.A.", an abbreviation for "all praise is due to Allah."

In an interview with MTV a few months after “Exhibit C” dropped, Jay revealed that he and Just Blaze [who sampled Billy Stewart's "Cross My Heart'] spent 15 minutes cooking up the song, with the purpose of getting it played on Angela Yee’s Sirius Satellite radio show, where they were scheduled to appear. Jay Electronica: We never went on the show. We fell asleep in the studio. I forgot the song existed. I didn’t hear it again until I heard it on Tony Touch’s [satellite radio show]. I was mad. Even when he played it on the show, he said, ‘I’m gonna get in trouble for doing that.’ The next day [the song] was all over the Net and people were asking for the CD-quality version. It grew legs on its own. It’s amazing to see.: bit.ly

"Better in Tune with the Infinite" used a sample from Ryuichi Sakamoto's "Bibo no Aozora." -- Jay Electronica grew up in the Magnolia Projects in New Orleans and started rapping at the age of 10 (inspired by L.L. Cool J). www.rocnation.com

Dimethyltryptamine, or DMT, is a drug that induces intense hallucinations and creates a dreamlike experience for the user. It is also secreted naturally by the body’s pineal gland in the brain before sleep (to induce dreaming) and before death. Jay Electronica has said in interviews that the imagery in this song actually came from a dream he had. He said that he saw a documentary about the JFK assassination and got high that night and afterwards went to sleep. So that’s why the song is all over the place just like a dream. That also explains the name of the song. --- Sampling Giorgio Moroder's "Midnight Express."

Critically acclaimed debut studio album from New Orleans-born Jay Electronica. 'A Written Testimony' is influenced by Nation of Islam doctrine, which made Jay Electronica feel empowered when he was young.

Jay Electronica grew up in the Magnolia Projects in New Orleans and started rapping at the age of 10 (inspired by L.L. Cool J). www.rocnation.com