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Rising DJ and freestyle dynamo Jay Electronica kicked enough ass at Club Haze in Las Vegas last February to earn him a welcome back March 8th. As per usual, he tore up the show up in his traditional fashion, driving the crowd wild and (especially) making the girls go crazy. Performing excerpts from his limited release of LPs, the hip-hop equivalent of a progressive rock album in the form of Act 1: Eternal Sunshine (The Pledge), which is, in the man’s own biography, “laced with movie samples and Beatles film soundtracks.” Shorter compositions like “Hard to Get” served as a bit of a break from the longer ones, with the crowd moving to every groove they could.

It makes for more than a captivating album apparently, and an equally riveting live performance; the crowd stood in awe of his on-stage stream-of-consciousness prose and filled in on what often seemed like the more difficult to memorize verses, when Jay’s wordplay was at its wittiest: “I got the rap game singing “At Last” like Etta James/Lames they got planes shot down like John McCain/It’s a dream, it’s a dream/ The flow is elegant like Miss Coretta Scott King/A lot of kings seen death and turned queen/Crack they 24 inch rims in the ravine.”

 

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