REVIEW | JAY ELECTRONICA VS DR. ENQI VS JAY‑Z, BY RAAMEL WALCOTT

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Jay Electronica vs Dr. EnQi vs Jay‑Z, reviewed by Raamel Walcott

Let’s dive right in head-first, this will be a song for song com­par­is­on of A Writ­ten Testi­mony vs Sound Becomes Light. The Over­whelm­ing Event vs Mag­net­ism. Mag­net­ism is a super authen­t­ic fan for­ward view of Dr. EnQi dis­cuss­ing Fancy Black Pesos. This gives us an amaz­ingly detailed pic­ture of Dr. EnQi that we nev­er met in the con­scious com­munity. The Over­whelm­ing Event fails to stand up to Mag­net­ism simply because it says noth­ing about Jay Elec­tron­ica, although Far­rakhan is a power­ful speak­er and the music is amaz­ing it’s not as power­ful of an intro­duc­tion as we expec­ted based on the wait. The intro should have addressed the wait.

Ghost of Soulja Slim vs Nature vs Nur­ture! It starts with more Far­rakhan & Jay‑Z mov­ing into Jay Elect with a bar stat­ing “If it come from me and HOV con­sider it Kor­an”… This is, unfor­tu­nately, more of an eclect­ic Jay‑Z song feat Jay Elect than any­thing else hon­estly, so I must deduct points from an oth­er­wise amaz­ing song music­ally and lyr­ic­ally. Nature vs Nur­ture is an amaz­ing entendre filled descrip­tion of Dr. EnQi’s life per­spect­ive of the world and how it came to be, it’s pure art! His voice and the spa­cing on this track from Kaz are some­thing from anoth­er universe.

The Blind­ing vs Yayo! This JZ fea­ture feels like an actu­al fea­ture and Jay Elect shines on this track answer­ing some of our ques­tions regard­ing the long wait and who he has become. The music is awe­some and would have allowed for a sorely needed extra verse to go more in-depth, still awe­some! Yayo is an immacu­lately told com­pel­ling story of Dr. EnQi’s child­hood. Jay Elect may be incap­able of reach­ing this level of intro­spect­ive storytelling that evokes Syn­es­thesia in all who hear it like a jolt to the pineal gland.

The Nev­erend­ing Story vs Power…very power­ful! The son­ic geo­metry of the bass on this song pro­duced by Work Major is pure Hip-Hop, almost like the cement of the Bronx. I just feel a level of authen­ti­city that you get from all the name drop­ping and coat tail rid­ing on A Writ­ten Testi­mony. The world play on Power might even be above Jay-Z’s level, this is an instant top 10 of an all-time song lyr­ic­ally. The Nev­erend­ing Story is loaded with amaz­ing power, but over-shad­owed by one of the best Jay‑Z verses ever, unfor­tu­nately for Jay Elect. Great song but we can­’t over­look the fact that he is get­ting bod­ied on his own track in a very blatant fashion.

Shiny Suit The­ory vs the Basqui­at! Finally, a com­pletely mas­ter­ful Jay Elect song com­plete with music that com­pli­ments his out­er worldly God flow. Not even JZ takes away from the syn­ergy of this beat with Jay Elect’s voice and deliv­ery, the samples make this an instant favor­ite for Jay Elect fans world­wide. Dr. EnQi’s voice, lyr­ics, deliv­ery, and expert­ise on said sub­ject mat­ter cata­pult him into pos­sibly the top 3 all-time or the Mt. Rush­more of lyr­i­cists. After listen­ing to this song alone he at least qual­i­fies for the top 5, worst-case scen­ario due to his effort­less double, triple and quad­ruple entendre schemes! Eas­ily the best verse in the last 10 years hands down. RKITECH really laid out the blue­print on this track!

Uni­ver­sal Sol­dier vs Seed Money… Seed Money pro­duced by Spec­trum Gamma Rayz aka Spec­trum Gamz is insane, you lit­er­ally feel the streets of Motown and Detroit alive with blood of the many proph­ets of music and black lead­er­ship in this artist­ic dramat­iz­a­tion of drugs, money & private pris­ons. This is lyr­ic­al mas­tery on a first album like we have nev­er wit­nessed before! Lyr­ic­ally the Uni­ver­sal Sol­dier may be the best song on the album with Jay Elect lay­ing out some of what he has been through, com­bined with a trip through memory lane from the God MC J‑Hova, no words can express the feel­ings from this song! This may go on repeat in many playlists.

Flux Capa­cit­or vs Sound Becomes Light, sadly, Jay Elect’s verse does not fit well on this track, how­ever son­ic­ally, the bars are stand­ard ‘God flow’, com­bined with Jay and the pro­duc­tion for clas­sic ear candy. Sound Becomes Light as a song is monu­ment­al and should earn Dr. EnQi a GRAMMY. He lit­er­ally broke down post-grad level elec­tro­mag­net­ism and the music busi­ness in one song in a way no artist or orator has ever been able to do with music or in lec­ture format. This is anoth­er song that takes this man who had a 9 year single out in Angel into a class by himself.

Fruits of the Spir­it vs Faith in Love. This com­par­is­on may seem odd but what I hear in both songs are two intel­li­gent black fath­ers try­ing to be the best dads they can be and in that space, I will just say these two songs should be spin­ning on all P‑1 sta­tions twice a show.

Ezekiel’s Wheel vs Angel, these two songs are matched head to head based on the sub­ject mat­ter and the deeply melod­ic accouter­ment that accom­pan­ies the heavy lyr­ics and deep voices of these two artists, who dropped sim­il­ar albums at almost the same time. I will give Jay Elect the edge on this one in terms of lyr­ics and word-play how­ever the sub­ject mat­ter goes to Dr. EnQi all day. Dr. EnQi again con­denses the com­plex and cre­ates an adult con­ver­sa­tion that gives his entire album so much replay value.

A.P.I.D.T.A. vs More than M.E./M.E. & Eu. You may say it’s not fair to com­pare 1 song to 2 songs but hon­estly, there’s just so much more on Sound Becomes Light than A Writ­ten Testi­mony. We waited a dec­ade for just 10 songs with no real dress­ing, per­son­al­ity or skits. Music­ally I have to say Silent Riot Dell was mas­ter­ful on the M.E. & Eu track which trans­ports the listen­er to a pleas­ure-cent­ric plan­et in a sim­il­ar vein to A.P.I.D.T.A. how­ever, lyr­ic­ally More than M.E. is an anthem for single fath­ers across the globe, no contest.

Sound Becomes Light is eas­ily bet­ter than A Writ­ten Testi­mony and sup­plies 1000 times more replay value than any album we have got­ten in recent his­tory. Sound Becomes Light is 15 songs and 6 skits deep but the crazy thing is even the skits are well pro­duced with amaz­ingly Mastered Tracks.

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MJ is Hip Hop Blog­ger, Pub­li­cist, Book­ing Agent, Act­iv­ist, but fan first and fore­most. “Hip Hop saved my life, it is only right I give back to the culture”!

About MJ Savino

MJ is Hip Hop Blogger, Publicist, Booking Agent, Activist, but fan first and foremost. "Hip Hop saved my life, it is only right I give back to the culture"!