{"id":20417,"date":"2010-11-13T12:26:18","date_gmt":"2010-11-13T11:26:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blackouthiphop.com\/?p=20417"},"modified":"2023-04-08T16:46:41","modified_gmt":"2023-04-08T14:46:41","slug":"jay-electronica-signs-to-roc-nation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/jay-electronica-signs-to-roc-nation\/","title":{"rendered":"Jay Electronica signs to Roc Nation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"100%\" height=\"344\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/LHm2ivwyL8s?fs=1&amp;hl=en_GB\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"20418\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/jay-electronica-signs-to-roc-nation\/capture_13112010_112819\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/capture_13112010_112819.jpg?fit=517%2C175&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"517,175\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"jay elec\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/capture_13112010_112819.jpg?fit=517%2C175&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/capture_13112010_112819.jpg?fit=517%2C175&amp;ssl=1\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-20418\" title=\"jay elec\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/capture_13112010_112819.jpg?resize=517%2C175&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"517\" height=\"175\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Miss Info:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Tonight, Jay E.\u2019s friends, family, fans and critics are packed into The Box, to announce that he\u2019s officially part of Jay-Z\u2019s Roc Nation roster.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier I spoke to Jay E. about the big news, and his plans. He said that the actual contract was signed on Saturday, after a few weeks of intense daily communication and creative courtship. How did it start? With a chance meeting at the Spotted Pig. How did Electronica know Hov was serious? His second replay email came attached with a verse. That ended up becoming the Jay Electronica and Jay-Z collaboration <a href=\"http:\/\/usershare.net\/missinfo\/xwmyivhbowsn\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u201cShiny Suit Theory\u201d<\/a> (featuring French chanteuse Charlotte Gainsbourg and The-Dream).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Video via <a href=\"http:\/\/rapradar.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Rap Radar<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Miss Info: Tonight, Jay E.\u2019s friends, family, fans and critics are packed into The Box,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20417","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-videos"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pG6fW-5jj","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20417","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20417"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20417\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}