Jay Electronica ft. Mobb Deep – Call Of Duty // Song Of The Day #343

About this time last year, I was finding it painfully difficult to listen to anything other than Jay Electronica.

It was as if he’d come out of nowhere; this strange East Coast mystic, semi-nomadic, would turn up in Europe one day, the Middle East the next – all the time quietly releasing free mixtapes, or the odd track, that instantly and irrevocably changed the way that thousands of people thought about hip-hop. They were furiously intelligent, yes; beautifully and strangely produced, too. But there was (and remains) something unquantifiable about them. Something that sets apart tracks like the heartrending ‘The Levee Broke’, or the extraordinary, sprawling ‘Eternal Sunshine’ from anything else I had heard, or have heard since. They are shamanistic, otherworldly – more like listening to an incantation than to a record.

A year later and Jay Electronica is signed to Roc Nation, readying his debut full-length. ‘Call of Duty: MW3’ may or may not be on that record. Either way, it’s a fittingly militaristic track; full of marching sounds and promises that Jay will “bring the next Chronic” – a feat that he is certainly capable of performing.

You can download the track below – then go back and grab everything he’s ever put out, starting with ‘Eternal Sunshine’.

Jay Electronica ft Mobb Deep – Call Of Duty by The Line Of Best Fit