Jay Electronica: "I Was Gonna Use 'Control' For My Album"

While living it up at the Outlook festival in Croatia last weekend, Jay Electronica spoke to Vibe

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While living it up at the Outlook festival in Croatia last weekend, Jay Electronica spoke to Vibe about “Kendrick Lamar’s big verse on Big Sean’s “Control.”

“When [Big Sean] told me it wasn’t on his album, I was gonna use it for my album. And then he told me the day before it came out that, ‘Yo, Kendrick put a verse on it, we gonna put it out. But it’s a good thing- It’s a good thing for hip-hop music because hip-hop has been laying dormant for a long time.”

And you guessed it. There were still no news on when his debut album, tentiavely titled Act II: Patents of Nobility (the Turn), will be released.

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