Jay Electronica did not take kindly to being booed at his show in Los Angeles over the weekend as he jumped into the crowd to confront the hecklers.
The Roc Nation rapper’s concert at The Compound on Saturday (April 4) went south when some attendees began booing him for performing “Exhibit C” acapella instead of over the Just Blaze beat.
Footage from the concert posted on social media showed Jay halting his set and taking issue with the crowd’s response, saying: “If you fuck with me, shut the fuck up and listen to the bars!”
He added: “Whoever boos, we know you the enemy, n*gga, and you a coward! ‘Cause you won’t boo in my face.”
Jay Electronica responds to boos after they wanted him to play the beat through for Exhibit C at The Compound in LA pic.twitter.com/bWTnfqeAxu
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An angry Jay Electronica then jumped into the crowd and reiterated his message as he walked through the sea of fans, daring his hecklers to boo him to his face.
“See how they shut the fuck up! They pussy!” he yelled, before clarifying: “My fans know I ain’t talking to them. We on the same team … I came here to swing my sword at the enemy. If you want to boo, that’s fine; I’ve been booed at concerts before. But grow some nuts and boo in my face.”
One clip showed the New Orleans native squaring up to a male attendee with his mic in hand and reprimanding him — in rhyme form.
“Ms. Dorothy raised me up on the psalms of David / Plus worked her whole life, day and night on grave shift / So just know Jay Electronica ain’t to be played with!” he snaps, reciting his verse from “Abracadabra (A Written Testimony: Leaflets).”
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Jay Electronica is currently in the midst of his Nineteen Day Reconnaissance Tour, which kicked off last month in Toronto.
Having already performed in Seattle, Portland, several Canadian cities and, of course, Los Angeles, the enigmatic MC heads to Las Vegas on Wednesday (April 8) before traveling to Orlando, Miami, Austin, Dallas, Houston and Virginia Beach.
The North American trek eventually wraps up on May 9 in Richmond, Virginia.
Jay Elec is on the road promoting his spree of surprise projects that he dropped last year: A Written Testimony: Leaflets, A Written Testimony: Power At The Rate of My Dreams and A Written Testimony: Mars, The Inhabited Planet.
On the song “Four Billion, Four Hundred Million 4,400,000,000 / The Worst Is Yet To Come,” he revealed that he “gave [JAY-Z] nineteen albums in one day and he ain’t have to pay me,” although it’s unclear if any further Jay Electronica projects are set for release.
