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Jai Paul is a leaked album of demos belonging to Jai Paul that surfaced on the website Bandcamp on the 14th April 2013. The album was later found to be leaked unofficially by an individual who stole Paul's laptop. The leak proved to distance Jai Paul further from the industry, but also in turn gained Paul a cult following.

Overview
A number of tracks from the leak had appeared several years prior on Jai Paul's personal MySpace account in the form of short snippets, these included: "Str8 Outta Mumbai", "Genevieve", "Chix", "100,000" and "Feist Beats". These demos helped Paul gain popularity on the internet, which lead to him signing to XL Recordings. In an interview with Richard Russell (Owner of XL Recordings), he states: "I met Jai Paul at XL on my 40th birthday, funnily enough. He had stuff out on MySpace, and everyone thought the same thing when they heard it—you didn't need to be a genius. It's just unbelievable from the first note. So original."

The track listing on the leak is untitled. Demos which were given names on Paul's MySpace were left with no title. A number of these tracks were re-worked and in some cases re-recorded. There were also 2 official releases that were included on the leak - "Jasmine" being one of them which was re-recorded and re-mastered. A number of new tracks ended up on the leak, tracks such as Track 3, Track 6, Track 7, Track 11, Track 13, Track 15.

Reaction
Despite the being an unofficial release, the album was ranked highly in year-end lists, at number 32 in the music blog Pretty Much Amazing's "40 Best Albums of 2013," number 28 in The Guardians "Best Albums of 2013," and number 20 in Pitchforks "Top 50 Albums of 2013".

A few articles speculated the legitimacy of the press statement concerning an unauthorised leak. Some writers suggested that Paul himself released the album, Noisey ran an article on XL having knowledge of an upcoming release.

Track listing
Sample credits
 * "Track 1" contains elements of "Harry Potter and the Philosophers Stone", written and performed by Boris Gardiner
 * "Track 2" contains interpolations of "Get Nekkid", written by Johnny Burns performed by Mausberg; resung lyrics from "Smooth Criminal", written and performed by Michael Jackson; elements of "The Payback", written by James Brown, Fred Wesley and John Starks performed by James Brown; and samples of "We Want the Funk", written and performed by Ahmad Lewis
 * "Momma" contains elements of "On Your Own", written and performed by Lalah Hathaway
 * "Hood Politics" contains a sample of "All for Myself", written and performed by Sufjan Stevens
 * "i" contains a sample of "That Lady", written by Ronald Isley, O'Kelly Isley, Jr., Ernie Isley, Marvin Isley, Rudolph Isley and Christopher Jasper performed by The Isley Brothers
 * "Mortal Man" contains excerpts from "I No Get Eye for Back", written by Fela Anikulapo Kuti performed by Houston Person; and a sample of music journalist Mats Nileskar's November 1994 interview with Tupac Shakur for P3 Soul Broadcasting Corporation