MUSIC is the elusive rapper's first album in five years, but his presence has loomed heavy over hip-hop — and the fanbase ...

(The cover overlays two different typefaces that simply ... music to his name that he called himself the "Jay Electronica of mumble rap." Songs kept leaking with no commercial release in sight.

In 2016, as "mumble rap" was being used as a slur for the first time, and SoundCloud had become a bolt-hole offering asylum to young hip-hop castoffs, a handful of the movement's defining figures ...

In 2016, as "mumble rap" was being used as a slur for the first time, and SoundCloud had become a bolt-hole offering asylum to young hip-hop castoffs, a handful of the movement's defining figures were ...