Jay Electronica’s surprise project, A Written Testimony: Leaflets, dropped on his 49th birthday. The sharp set of seven songs deepens his ongoing mix of mysticism, conspiracy, and lyrical bravado.

Hug your loved ones. Clear that bucket list. Shoot that shot. As if we needed any more signs that imminent doom is on the horizon, Jay Electronica, music’s foremost harbinger of societal collapse, has ...