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This is appropriate, because Young Jeezy isn’t about parties, or jumping around, he’s all about getting yours – another unique aspect of his rhymes. It’s all clearly southern, but it’s stripped of the south’s modern party vibe, drawing much more from UGK and No Limit than Lil’ Jon and the crunk movement. It works best when the bass stands out, as in “By the Way” and “Get a Lot,” but it’s all outstanding. It’s all as unapologetically blunt and hard as Jeezy himself is, and the marriage covers Jeezy’s flaws while enhancing his strengths. From the introduction, every beat is produced on an epic scale. He’s always been known for it, but this album is his best produced yet. Jeezy’s strength lies less in what he says than how he says it, as he says, “Ya’ll niggas want wordplay, but I’m about bird play.”Įverything I just said about Jeezy would be irrelevant if not for his incredible ear for beats.
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Basically, he’s realer than every other rapper, he dealt drugs, he’s got money, etcetera. Besides justifying drug dealing and frequent Barack Obama references, he’s mainly concerned with himself as a theme. That’s not to say all, or even a third of Jeezy’s verses are about politics. When you get more time for selling dope than murder Real G shit? Well, that’s really unheard of Send a message out to every single one of us Goddamn another trap, I think Bush is trying to punish us I want a new Bentley and my auntie need a kidneyĪnd if I let her pass, her children never will forgive me
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Light bill, phone bill, plus my granny’s nerve pills Probably why I never gave a fuck about a record deal “When I was 14, I turned nothing to a quarter mill’ He even manages to break down his entire beef with the government’s drug laws in a single verse of “Crazy World”: GZA once instructed rappers to keep their raps brief, “half short and twice strong.” If Jeezy’s got a unique talent, it’s shortening complex ideas into simple statements. And while his lyrics are definitely simple, he’s got an uncanny ability to get across clearer ideas in a line than many rappers do in a verse. Jeezy is the southern equivalent of Raekwon: his raps are gritty enough to make everything he does unquestionably street music, but underneath the grime is a tremendous ear for music and a constant creative vision for how he fits in it. The only difference between Jeezy and every other rapper with the same gimmick is that he’s just better than the rest of them.
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And his gimmick of the straight-from-the-streets hustler who’s ready to go back to the ‘hood isn’t new at all. His gritty, drawling voice isn’t the most pleasant, but unabashedly slow and blunt delivery is undoubtedly refreshing. He’s definitely not the most complex lyricist you’ll ever hear, but he’s a subtly insightful one. When Jay-Z is on his A-game, there are only a handful of rappers who can stay with him. Then “Go Crazy” was released as a single. And when I actually heard him rap, all I heard was another uncreative, unoriginal, and uninspired gangsta rapper from the south. I saw him as a caricature, just another rapper playing down to gangsta rap’s conventional wisdom. All the references to being a hustler, not a rapper to not caring about hip-hop just rubbed me wrong. At the surface, he embodied everything I thought was wrong with mainstream rap.