for you jay fans Jay Electronica Promises Debut Album, Multiple Collabo Projects This Year
Following the success of his popular Just Blaze-produced track, "Exhibit C," producer/rapper Jay Electronica isn't resting on his laurels, he's hard at work preparing new music for the rest of the year. The New Orleans native is currently completing the U.K. leg of his tour, and during the trek, caught up with MTV and revealed new projects in the coming months.
Electronica says that not only does he have the street CD Act II and the official LP Act III coming, but he's also prepping multiple collaborative efforts with the likes of Mos Def, Guilty Simpson, Nas, and if possible, another with Lupe Fiasco.
"It's still Act II. Act III, the official album, which 'Exhibit A' and 'Exhibit C' are a part of [as well as] 'Dear Moleskin,' " Jay told MTV this week. "Me and Mos [Def] have a project that we're doing, me and Guilty Simpson have a project that we're doing. I would like to do a project with Lupe -- [Fiasco] we're going to do a project at some point. Me and Nas have a project that we're doing. I'm just trying. I'm in the process of working and connecting. I don't really feel like a song or an album is the end-all, be-all to what we're doing.
"You can expect my album this year," he added. "You can expect multiple projects this year. We're going to do a lot this year."
He also confirmed that superproducer Just Blaze would be taking the reigns for around 65% of his debut album.
Aside from business, Jay is also focusing on raising a baby girl with singer Erykah Badu, which he says factors in when setting time frames for the aforementioned projects.
"As a person trying to grow and figure out how to handle things, learn and be a man -- all that's a part of the process too," he explained. "It's hard to put a release date on those type of things when you're factoring those things in."
