Act I: The Eternal Sunshine (The Pledge) - Jay Electronica
Act I: The Eternal Sunshine (The Pledge)

Jay Electronica first gained significant attention through this project, made available on a MySpace page in 2007. It is fifteen continuous minutes of music, without drums, built from Jon Brion’s soundtrack to the film Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. There are five segments or movements marked by changes in music and mood, raps by Electronica, and occasional snippets of sampled dialogue including scenes from Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory. The first segment is a spoken word piece by Just Blaze and Erykah Badu describing Electronica over piano music. The nature of the piece of music, along with the nature of its appearance, led to a slow build-up of interest in Electronica as an enigmatic figure. Songs circulating online as the Style Wars EP gained wider circulation, and other songs, such as the dream-inspired “Dimethyltryptamine”, soon appeared. In January 2008, Giles Peterson’s 90-minute Gilles Peterson Worldwide was devoted to the rapper. Hiphopdx.com in 2008 called him “arguably…the most talked about new emcee last year … at times…more like a myth or urban legend than an actual rapper”, and URB ran a cover story on the artist under the banner “Jay Electronica: A Spotless Mind :: An MC’s mystery revealed”, which referred to his wanderings as his being “like some sort of hip-hop Jack Kerouac”.
Distribution of songs on Act I: The Eternal Sunshine (The Pledge) by producer
Songs