Here’s Jay performing the song that can never ever get old over in Paris at their Colors Festival.

Here’s HHO chopping it up with the next coming of Hip-Hop back stage at the Paid Dues show.



Coodie and Chike from Creative Control sat down with MTV to discuss Jay Electronica’s video for “Exhibit C” which is as elusive as Jay himself. According to the video directors, the much waited on video is on its way.

“ We’re in discussion. We’ve been building on it, so hopefully soon. We’re moving on it, man. We’re in pre-production actually preparing to do it, so we’ll see. ”

Coodie from Creative Control

April 8th, 2010

If you’re still trying to memorize this line from Jay Electronica’s classic “Exhibit C”, maybe the T-shirt above will help you out. To get your own, click here

And it went a little something like this:

“ I have to admit, you know, a few years ago, I wouldn’t have admitted this — or maybe I wouldn’t have been conscious of it in a way to admit or be embarrassed — but in my earlier years from when I first left home, I was embarrassed from being from the South. Not in general, but as a rapper because all of the negative things that people in the States put on the South. Like, “The South, they’re slow.” They move slow, they think slow, they’re less intelligent. They’re less exposed, they’re underexposed, they’re more sheltered.

So as a rapper — I’ve been rapping since I was 10 years old — I always had a feeling of ‘I’m gonna show you’ because we down here doing it. Not that I was embarrassed necessarily — I don’t know if that’s the correct word — but I know that when I left home, if someone had heard my accent and heard where I was from, the door was immediately closed.

I kind of stiff-armed my roots for a couple of years,” the Brooklyn transplant continued of his journey. “Then my sister told me one day, ‘You know, you act like you’re ashamed of being from home.’ It was like a reality check. I checked myself. I mean, this is years ago, but now I’m at a place where I understand where I’m from. I understand my culture and I’m more proud to be from there than associate with somewhere else. ”