“Why you holding on / You don't need that / They just feeding BS super strong / You don't eat that”
The first time I heard “Let Go” I was confused. The big, cinematic sample leads into a clear, spoken word-styled flow. Who is this? What is this? Did he say “BS” instead of spelling it out? Is this a Christian rapper? WHAT IS GOING ON!?!?
The investigation was on. With the track on repeat, I googled JClay and found rap’s Tony Robbins:
If this doesn’t summarize the Music To Quit Your Job theme, I don’t know what does. Is this me in another dimension? Turns out Houston based JClay is who we thought he was: positivity is his brand, he makes what he describes as “healing songs” with “elaborately mature lyrics”.
“Your life is like what you know you not gonna like / But you must like it cause you recite it every night like it's on mics”
Keep JClay on your radar. This dude is here to fill a void in the hip hop scene, and I for one will be hoping he does. Let go.
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About the Curator - Ben Young:
Ben Young lives a life of polarity. He has split his life between the coasts: half his life on the West (California) and half on the East (Georgia and Virginia). He has pursued careers in the art world (film school graduate) and the corporate world (executive with Fortune 500 companies). And he is Biracial, the personification of being two things at once.
Ben’s musical influences were formed by music loving parents, raised in a world of John Coltrane and John Lennon, James Taylor and James Ingram, Huey Lewis and the News and Prince and the Revolution. Saxophones, electric guitars, synthesizers, and breakbeats filled the air Ben breathed from birth. And being born one year after the birth of Hip Hop, Ben has been joined at the hip with the genre his entire life.
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