Just over a year ago I received a text message from Jay IDK letting me know Saba was headed to town and whether I could make a connect. An easy sell, Jay was coming off the stellar release of several singles and approaching his much-anticipated release of SubTrap, the DC-native made the most of the meeting, forging a friendship in the process that saw Saba's camp crash at IDK's place at SXSW last year.  I've since been hoping that friendship would manifest itself audibly. Just before the weekend I got my wish as Jay released, "My Wallet" featuring Saba and a pair of our Respect The Neighbors alumni in Michael Christmas and Jimi Tents. 

The single is the latest in Jay's most recent foray into layered content releases that began on the multi-dimensional and tightly-wound SubTrap which vaulted him to the forefront of the national scene and shows alongside the likes of Freddie Gibbs and Post Malone. Here, we are entered into a new world with Jay, who's latter acronym stands for Ignorantly Delivering Knowledge. In this world, money is king, and he utilizes the metaphor creatively in the first release from the album, "I Picture" and taps the right voices to join him.

True to form, Jay juxtaposes traditional ideas of hip-hop fallacies, pimping them to his own agenda. Earlier this year we brought Jay IDK into Soundscape for an upcoming feature. Watching him work, sitting down with other artists to explain the careful theme of the message he's trying to achieve was really eye-opening to his creative process and carries through here, with each subsequent verse serving to further add context to the overall idea. It's easy for collaborations, especially as high-profile as these, to sound disjointed, with each going off in different directions but here it works the way it always should, in turn making us all the more excited for the impending release of The Empty Bank.