MTV catches up with Coodie and Chike of CreativeControl to talk about the elusive Exhibit C video.
“We’re in discussion. We’ve been building on it, so hopefully soon,” Coodie said. “We’re moving on it, man. We’re in pre-production actually preparing to do it, so we’ll see.”
“Yeah, but Jay is quite the magician, so he’s visible one minute and disappears the next,” Chike chimed in.
“Without giving it away, it’s definitely something that’s going to be very interesting, and it’s going to take a lot of artists,” Chike said. “Not just rappers, but a lot of artists as far as putting this together. Cats that are true with their craft. It’s going to be dope.”
Jay Elect also speaks on the time he takes with his projects (text below).
“For the past few years, I’ve been working at my own pace,” Jay said. “Not necessarily out of stubbornness; it’s just that I’ve been doing it for so long and trying to accomplish the thing for so long that I finally found being my own self and working in my own time and being the most natural is the things that yields the best results for me.
“When questions like that come,” Electronica said about answering when his album will drop, “I would like to tell you, ‘Yo, it’s coming next week, two weeks from now.’ Because we have projects, me and Just Blaze, we got gangs of songs. I speak to Nas on a regular basis. We’re working on music together. There are a lot of things going on. But I don’t necessarily have a calendar mark of when a thing is coming, because I just kind of want to keep going the way it has been going, which has got me to this point. When I have been on a calendar, when I have been trying to do it that way, it hasn’t been successful for me. It hasn’t yielded any results.”
take ur time jay!
Boomerang Slang said this on April 9th, 2010 at 7:08 am
What is the point of putting out a video for it now? The song is dope but it’s not relevant anymore it’s played out. He should have put out a video for it I don’t know maybe 5 months ago.
snagz said this on April 9th, 2010 at 7:35 am
dude above me has a point….but why not make a video!! i sa go for it.
stussy_kid said this on April 9th, 2010 at 7:41 am
ay wat happened 2 the video for exhibit A???…lol
kdubfrmCali said this on April 9th, 2010 at 8:42 am
damn this is maaaaaaaaad late…..still love this song but damn…. and DONT SPAM IN THE COMMENTS YOU BUM
KushNOJay said this on April 9th, 2010 at 9:28 am
aye yo remember when we were all waiting for his next joint to drop on new years…wait what
rukstar said this on April 9th, 2010 at 9:48 am
Jay should know that everyday he waits and puts things off the more hype he gathered begins to go away….Maybe before releasing a song artist should have a whole package put together, including videos, promo tours, features, ETC. Anything to keep that hype train moving and put themselves in a better place artiscally as well as financially…
You a smart guy but what you doin from all aspects is not smart Jay…
T said this on April 9th, 2010 at 9:55 am
yea his buzz is gone, but hes lyrical so the real hip hop dudes will get the new project but all the bandwagon fans are gone
Cash said this on April 9th, 2010 at 10:07 am
I’m a fan of Jay but this shit is getting old….. does him and his team not see that he’s losing his buzz if it’s not gone already…? Smarten up Jay for your sake and your fans…
FeSo said this on April 9th, 2010 at 10:48 am
Where is Dear Moleskine?!?!?!?!?!?!
DEV said this on April 9th, 2010 at 10:48 am
wheres the new Chiddy Bang mixtape..get on that ish Shake
Brandon said this on April 9th, 2010 at 10:52 am
I have feeling he’s got plenty more tracks to build the hype again but I’m not sure he should release them until he’s ready to stick to a date.
james said this on April 9th, 2010 at 10:54 am
Don’t announce shit and then not release it. Simple as that.
Nutt said this on April 9th, 2010 at 11:02 am
Exhibit C is only getting old if your listening to it too much. Shit is timeless.
Clifford Long said this on April 9th, 2010 at 12:05 pm
Lol @ putting my full name from that contest and it stayed there.
BlackStarr said this on April 9th, 2010 at 12:06 pm
dude is on a different level and probably doesn’t give a shi* about buzz or hype…
RT said this on April 9th, 2010 at 12:11 pm
all these dudes talkin bout Jay is losin his buzz so he needs to drop somethin asap. if u have true talent that shit dont matter. Nas came on the scene with one guest verse in 1991 and his first album came out in 1994 and it was a classic. if Lauryn Hill dropped somethin today people would be all over it. if u have true talent buzz dont matter
Boomerang Slang said this on April 9th, 2010 at 12:20 pm
I just hope Jay Electronica doesn’t become the physical embodiment of Detox.
Nahmyself said this on April 9th, 2010 at 12:41 pm
I love how this is the “I want it now or fuck it” generation. If a nigga don’t drop an album, video, or mixtape asap then they start losing fans. Then three months after it comes out, it’s “old” and “played out”. It’s almost laughable. I remember how you lame muthafuckas used to dismiss everytime someone mentioned Cuban Linx II….but then started cock slurping as soon as it dropped.
Don’t worry….the Jay Elec album will be here soon enough so you can salivate and debate or bitch on the internet about it LMAO. I swear, niggas are like fucking toddlers with their impatience and attention spans!!!
Tick-Tick-BOOM said this on April 9th, 2010 at 1:17 pm
Cosigns what Tick-Tick-BOOM Said.
ProjectZero said this on April 9th, 2010 at 1:30 pm
Did the mixtape come out yet? I’m so lost when it comes to Jay Elec… What drops!? What doesn’t? ARGGGH! I’ll just keep bumping that Exhibit A
jei said this on April 9th, 2010 at 2:30 pm
jay music is going to sound like the future watch and see kids ha ha. I just hope he drop Act II this year for real I need to hear some more Ju$t blaze beats and jay Elec
E-tek9 the last guradain said this on April 9th, 2010 at 3:47 pm
jay electronica doesn’t give a fuck about keeping hype. he doesn’t need it. it returns the moment he drops a new, dope song, which he’ll eventually get around to doing
??? said this on April 9th, 2010 at 5:43 pm
@ Tick Tick
What you said would be right if Jay elec and the “hype machine” wasnt running around falsifying release dates for shit…
Therefore people have a reason to bitch and complain for this man not staying true to his word.
No a nigga aint gonna have no fans if he lying to them….
People support you and you lying??? Fuck that….
T said this on April 9th, 2010 at 5:52 pm
@ T
I feel u but at the end of the day Jay Elect makes dope music and when he does decide to drop somethin its gonna be tite. u act like this nigga lied about somethin serious, its jus free music
Boomerang Slang said this on April 9th, 2010 at 6:05 pm
man fuck act 2.
OB_5 said this on April 9th, 2010 at 6:22 pm
i dont want the video to come out. itll take away from the mysitque. but then again im sur jay elec would probably do a dope job if it does drop the dear molskine trailer still gives me the shivers
London said this on April 9th, 2010 at 6:35 pm
Boomerang Slang and Tick-Tick-BOOM both got good points, but so does Nahmyself in saying “I just hope Jay Electronica doesn’t become the physical embodiment of Detox.”
i mean, yeah, it is free music, so on a day to day I could honestly careless if Jay dropped anything, ever. Honestly i dont even listen to rap like i used to cuz i found that more often than not i found myself frustrated with the trash and on sites like this trying to find a diamond in the ruff far to often (no diss to 2Dope). But at the same time, he coulda easily spoke up early about Act 2
Either way, Jay has done more for me than I have or will for him so its all good. Not like Im droppin dope songs for the free-free
blac.ink said this on April 9th, 2010 at 6:42 pm
i look real forward for the videos he shot in Nepal.
loop' said this on April 10th, 2010 at 5:40 am
Jay Electronica is another one of those overly hyped underground rappers that is supposed to be the next big thing but never pans out. Real talk dude is like Dr. Dre always talking about act 2 for 5 years but nobody ever hears shit.
J Dub said this on April 11th, 2010 at 9:50 pm
He is coming. Trust! He jus ain’t another industry BITCH! You way is the best! Do YOU!
Dj Dawodu said this on April 18th, 2010 at 9:02 pm