Jahlil Beats Signs To Roc Nation.

CHRIS LIVE AKA SHAKER SAYS: Aaaaaaaaaand, another 1 bites the dust! LOL. Nahh, lemme chill. Big S/O to Jahlil Beats on signing to Jay-Z's burgeoning(?) Roc Nation empire. So what J. Cole STILL can't get a respectable photo op with his boss!? So what Jay Electronica makes 2 songs a year and - aside from notoriously out-of-touch with reality message board shut-ins - his seriously over hyped buzz has dwindled to weak signal/low battery status!? Jahlil Beats is different! Hopefully the collect-a-check-execs that comprise the nuts-and-bolts of this label's day-to-day operation do right by the young production wizard behind what was arguably the song of Summer 2011, Meek Mill's "I'ma Boss".

Message To Roc Nation: Please try not to ruin this little nigga's life before he even hits 25 years old b. Have a fucking heart.

Anyway, press play and watch as contracts get signed and Jay-Z, Ty-Ty, et. al. toast some of the home team's very own Armand de Brignac "Ace Of Spades" bubbly to this Akai® MPC3000 prodigy on the rise. Cheers!

Jay ElecLeBronica @ ItsTheReal.Com = Hilarious! x A Special LiveStyle Commentary On Not Believing The Hype.

CHRIS LIVE AKA SHAKER SAYS: No, I have NOT made any posts concerning the recent surprise signing of Jay Electronica to Jay-Z's fledgling Roc Nation record label. Now, I could chalk that up to not feeling the need to cover the story simply because I trust that Y.O.U. have done your due diligence and read about it @ 1 million other blogs, but that would be a red herring on my part. The GOD honest truth is that I simply don't really fuck with this dude ... point, blank, period.

As previously discussed, I believe Jay Electronica to be an overrated, albeit talented MC, who has benefited ridiculously from reverse-regionalism (NOTE: Basically, the strange phenomena that occurs when, mainly East Coast people, overreact to the fact that somebody from no further south than Virgina and, say, no further west than Chicago can actually spit and proceed to heap waaaaaaaaay too much praise on them like a blind greeter handing out lei's @ Honolulu International Airport).

Furthermore, in interviews, he's pretty much proven himself to be one of those always annoying "If-only-I-use-a-superfluous-amount-of-vocabulary-words-people-will-automatically-think-that-I'm-smart" kind of rappers that, when placed in front of a camera for a quick Q&A wastes no time in transforming into a psychobabble spewing idiot. Oh yeah, did I mention that he's currently under the spell of bohemian big booty enchantress Ms. Erykah Badu? Yeah, this is a recipe for disaster my nigga ... lol.

Anyway, this post, while about Jay-Z's newest acquisition, isn't really about Jay-Z's newest acquisition. See, them boys over @ ItsTheReal did it again, so this post is ALL about their parody of LeBron James's Nike "Rise" commercial starring ole trap jaw himself, Jay Elec-I'm-yawning-ica ... lol.

Hey, I can say 1 good thing about Badu's boo: At least he was savvy enough to NOT become another 1 of Diddy's permanently shelved tax-write offs ... and that's a GREAT start ... lol. Holla @ ya boy in BK!

Pusha T - Bidding War (Freestyle)(Over Jay ElecHannukah's "The Ghost Of Christopher Wallace") @ Missinfo.TV.

Streaming Audio/Download Link: Pusha T - Bidding War (Freestyle)(Dirty)(NO DJ)

NEW MUSIC: Jay Electronica Ft. Diddy - The Ghost Of Christopher Wallace (Dirty)(NO DJ)

Streaming Audio/Download Link: Jay Electronica Ft. Diddy - The Ghost Of Christopher Wallace (Dirty)(NO DJ)

Jay Electronica Performs "Exhibit 'C'" @ The Roots' 6th Annual Pre-Grammy Jam @ The Key Club In LA x A Special LiveStyle Commentary.

CHRIS LIVE AKA SHAKER SAYS: As a dedicated MC myself, forgive me if I don't swoon over every mildly talented new artist @ the mere mention of their name. Case In Point: Jay Electronica. Now, please don't construe my critical analysis of his deafening "buzz" as "hate" or any other outright dismissive word meant to cripple my argument @ the knees, but, #imjustsaying homeboy is NOT the microphone Messiah that many would mislead Y.O.U. to believe. Sorry.

Yes, Jay Electronica is a gifted wordsmith, but me thinks that much of the adulation surrounding his music stems from the fact that he's from Down South (N.ew O.rleans to be exact) and that many of us tend to wrongly expect less lyrics and more ignorance from our brothers and sisters from below the Mason/Dixon Line. He benefits from reverse RAPism ... lol. I listen to Jay Electronica and all I hear is Nas and Common 2010. Once he put some coherent bars together laced with morsels of esoteric rhetoric the world of desperately Avant-Garde poseurs was putty in his chew stick stained hands. Additionally, his liberal use of %5 Lessons throughout his songs are ripe with nostalgia and a welcome return to a celebration of Knowledge, Wisdom and Understanding as opposed to today's Chronic, Bitches and Not Caring To Understand A Thing. I get it, he's the perfect guy to root for right now.

All in all, I DO fux with this nigga ... for real. I am as happy to see Mr. Jay Elec'Yarmulke receive this current blast of media hype as I was when Drake 1st burst onto the scene ... both of these artists turn the spotlight on ALL of us whom truly L.O.V.E. the craft of lyricism. And there aint nothing wrong with that.