What a time we living in/just like the scripture says/earthquakes, fires, and plagues/the resurrection of the dead.- Jay Electronica’s “The Neverending Story”
A Written Testimony couldn’t be timelier. The long-awaited arrival of an official Jay Electronica album clocks in as much of the world’s population confronts calamity. Everything about A Written Testimony hits home. Because I maintain an (intermittently) halal household and regularly visit mosques, I don’t blink at the album’s foundation in Islam. Still mourning a December death, I appreciate the spiritual meditations on the 39-minute recording. As someone with suddenly precarious employment prospects, I share the artist’s skepticism of several of our shared institutions. The bleak A Written Testimony provides an entirely apropos soundtrack for this pivotal moment.
(Original image of the 9/11 Memorial in Manhattan by There Stands the Glass.)
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