Young Jeezy – The Recession Album Review
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Jeezy gets political on The Recession
Is this album really this bad? Someone fill me in.
Outkast and the Goodie MOb got me into Southern rap music back in the mid-‘90s. I’ll even admit that there are a few guilty pleasures on Master P’s gloriously-awful “Ghetto Dope.”
But I just can’t get into the whole Southern-bounce thing, and its biggest star, Young Jeezy, embodies everything that makes the genre forgettable and indistinct on “The Recession.”
At least a dozen of the album’s track use the exact same drum pattern. I get into plenty arguments with people who say that all rap music sounds alike, but I couldn’t argue in Jeezy’s case: Two out of every three tracks are all gothic synth lines, skittery hi-hats, 808 bass hits and rat-a-tat snares.
David Banner fell into this trap on his recent “Greatest Story Ever Told,” but at least he had a few political raps and interesting messages to get across. Jeezy simply engages the crack-rap genre at its most generic level. Say what you will about the amorality of groups like the Clipse that extol the upside of the drug game; at least they’re creative about it. Most of “Recession” features similarly-structured hooks (“Blah blah blah, I do THIS, blah blah blah, I do THAT”) by way of Jeezy’s ashy mid-range tenor, which kind of sounds like a 15-year-old who just smoked a whole humidor full of cheap cigars.
Contrary to its title, the album rarely varies from how hard Jeezy is grindin’, and the album’s sole political commentary – aside from “My President,” the second of what I’m sure will be a whole slew of Barack-Obama-related songs in the run-up to the election – is about how the self-professed Snowman’s rims “keep spinnin’ in this crazy world.”
The sole bright spots in this solar eclipse of boredom come near “Recession’s” middle, with a couple songs that finally up the tempo a little: “Word Play” and “Circulate,” which works a bouncy horn-and-string loop.
Then again, J. Dilla already used the same loop to better effect on Steve Spacek’s excellent “Space Shift.” And another half-decent moment, “Hustlaz Ambition,” is really just an incompetent hijacking of 2Pac’s “Ambitionz Az a Ridah,” right down to the chorus and drum pattern.
Man, I am really drinking the Haterade when it comes to this album. What can I say, though? For the guy who’s supposedly leading the way when it comes to the Southern rap scene, “The Recession” is more like The Great Depression. -Sussex Countain
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review = 100% true.
im tired of the same beat over and over and over and over.
The Hate is blocking your judgement but to each its own….The Reccession is better than what your review trys to tell!!!
I didnt write the review — but I’m curious
Japan — what are some tracks we should check for?
Yo Cfro the intro is a hot track and so is by the way. A lot of similar tracks but i would say that jeezy pulled through with “The Recession” and will sell big..Big ups to CFRo in Amserdam
I’m gonna check that Intro ^^
big ups right back to ya mane
Dunno what this dudes hating ’bout,
this album might not be as good as his 1st
but it holds up.
I’m also not a big fan of South rap(almost 80% of it is rubbish).
but there’s 1 artist I always look forward to,
and that’s Jeezy.His unique delievery is on point with the
beats. Why try to change it( its the south, and only his 3rd major release, maybe over time he’ll branch off to something “YOU” might like).
Tracks to look out for:
Intro
By the Way
Amazin’
circulate(it’s on that Shaft tip, kinda different)
Vacation(so and so…bit monotoned)
Don’t do it
Put on ft Khanye(Jst a lil tired of this t-pain/lollipop-weezy voice effect)
and last but not least…
My President ft. Nas(and he flows well to the music)
the track has this victory feel to it,
s**t you play on your to the voting stations.
Since trap star, I’ve yet(My 75 came close) to find a track to match up
and this track comes close.
All in all, if you a fan…just get the cd it ain’t that bad.
ozmit…SA
Man, I couldn’t disagree with your review more. To be quite honest, I’ve recently gotten into doing a lot of illicit drugs and I realized that niggas like Jeezy are on a whole other level. Southern music the likes of Young Jeezy, Boyz N Da Hood, and Lil Wayne is music you cannot fully appreciate unless you’re rolling or on that lean or something mind altering. Even some really, really potent weed will do the trick. Bite down and see what the song’s really about. ;)
check this new joint out, i’m loving this shit… word son
http://www.zshare.net/audio/53623603a8196e01/