It was incredibly jarring to hear Diddy on the new Jay Electronica album. Recently, the New Orleans rapper surprisingly dropped A Written Testimony: Leaflets on Friday (Sept. 19th). However, the first words you hear aren’t from him, they’re from Diddy. On the intro “Abracadabra,” he addresses the state of hip-hop as a genre and larger culture, echoing sentiments that it’s dead or close to it. Consequently, he emphasizes Electronica is equipped to save it and that people wait so long for him to drop because they know he can do it.

“Hip-hop is in a very, very dangerous place, you know,” Diddy tells Jay Electronica on the intro. “Give them that shit, you know what I’m saying? Live at they souls, lift up they vibration. That’s what God sent you here to do, you know? That’s why we wait so long

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