"HARD TO GET" FT. MR. PORTER by JAY ELECTRONICA // soul | hip-hop
 | Artist: Jay Electronica Album: What The F*_k Is a Jay Electronica Release: March 29, 2011 Label: Indie Europe/Zoom PRESS*PLAY>> |
JAY ELECTRONICA x JAY-Z "WE MADE IT" (REMIX) | PRESS*PLAY>>
"We Made It" began as a Soulja Boy track produced by the Spaceghostpurrp-affiliated Purp Dogg (who also put together Miami Vice on a budget for rapper Cashy's Platinum Plus). But then Drake jumped on it, which gave the song something like an Internet mini-moment. And now, Jay Z and Jay Electronica have hopped on this blaxploitation score-sounding banger. Jay Z zings Drake — while celebrating black excellence by way of 12 Years A Slave's Oscar wins — and Electronica, to provide a plainspoken Mother Plane history lesson. All of this must be maddening for Soulja Boy — whose voice still howls on the track — and frustrating for anybody who cares about rap music that lets any outsider air in because, well, it's kind of effed up when a song this victorious, from a notable rap hit-maker from the mid-2000s, still needs rap hit-makers of right now to get people to pay attention. - SPIN.com
