Act 1: Eternal Sunshine (The Pledge)
2007 mixtape by Jay Electronica / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Act I: Eternal Sunshine (The Pledge) is the debut mixtape by American rapper Jay Electronica, self-published onto MySpace on July 2, 2007. The mixtape plays as one 15-minute track, sampling five different tracks of American record producer Jon Brion's 2004 film score, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. The mixtape covers a range of themes and subjects, including hip hop, Islam, and unidentified flying objects. It is notable for its lack of drums.
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Released | July 2, 2007 | |||
Genre | Hip hop | |||
Length | 15:40 | |||
Label | Self-published | |||
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Act 1: Eternal Sunshine on YouTube | ||||
The mixtape features a spoken word opening from Jay Electronica's frequent collaborators Just Blaze and Erykah Badu. Jay Electronica began recording Act I: Eternal Sunshine (The Pledge) with his built-in laptop microphone before completing it in Detroit. It has received critical acclaim for its experimentation and has since been described as Jay Electronica's breakout project. A follow-up album titled Act II: Patents of Nobility (The Turn) leaked on October 4, 2020, but his debut album, A Written Testimony was released instead in 2020, nearly thirteen years later.