Comments on: LA Times: Young Jeezy Review

By: Mourning City Stages « toxic culture

Mourning City Stages « toxic culture — Sat, 04 Apr 2009 02:12:41 +0000

[...] Then there’s the hip-hop offering. Last year we got The Roots and Galactic with Chali 2na… this year we get Young Jeezy. It’s not just that he’s a Lamborghini-wrecking, cocaine-promoting moron who makes bad horrible music. It’s not just that his fame is in part based on the fact that he had a giant ridiculous snowman necklace covered in diamonds. Let me quote one caustic reviewer: [...]

By: ga

ga — Sat, 13 Dec 2008 19:15:57 +0000

Whoever said he would never ride around the hood all day wit his gun cocked said it all! The music just aint for you! So if you listen and don’t understand. Pop in the latest mims or whateva bullshit you consider rap. Don’t turn it up too loud while riding around ya neighborhood! LAMES!!!!

HA HA!

By: Tray

Tray — Sun, 07 Sep 2008 01:49:29 +0000

You know, I’m a huge Jeezy fan but I finally got around to listening to this and you’re right. It kind of reminds me of one of those late Cash Money albums, like Checkmate or Project English (I don’t lump in 500 Degreez here, it’s very good), where the beats aren’t nearly as fun as they were on the earlier stuff and the rapper sounds like he’s just phoning it in.

By: christine

christine — Sat, 06 Sep 2008 05:00:11 +0000

um, this isn’t nearly mean enough. i’m disappointed in you.

By: hungrych

hungrych — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 21:43:14 +0000

I dig the alliteration in the second last paragraph.

By: Passion of the Weiss

Passion of the Weiss — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 21:18:56 +0000

I agree with you.

However, I find most of his beats interchangeable and Jeezy isn’t very good at rapping or writing lyrics. Plus, you think he could at least come up with new ad-libs. Say what you want about Jim Jones. At least that dude makes me laugh.

Don’t get me wrong, Game is wildly derivative but he at least seems to love hip-hop and making music. Which I find gives him an added likability. Jeezy openly panders and seems solely consumed with making money and I think that clearly reflects itself in his music.

By: Tray

Tray — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 21:13:10 +0000

I believe it’s entirely possible to enjoy both on their own terms, like, say, finding a way to enjoy both “L.A.X.” and “The Chronic.”

As Jeezy would say, that’s riiight!

By: Daniel

Daniel — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 21:03:36 +0000

I’ll admit Jeezy’s bullshit is difficult to really analyze, since the contradictions are so obvious (best example: how can a rapper this lazy talk up hard work?) it would be pointless. But the “substance” of so many other rappers is so rote and cliched, I find something refreshing about triumphant bullshit (there’s the title of Jeezy’s next album!)

Your point about “Hell On Earth” is well taken, but I believe it’s entirely possible to enjoy both on their own terms, like, say, finding a way to enjoy both “L.A.X.” and “The Chronic.”

By: Trey Stone

Trey Stone — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 21:02:48 +0000

you relate to or get a certain feeling by listening to some of your favorite rappers in a broader sense though right? think it’s the same idea with Jeezy’s appeal beyond the drug-dealing subject matter.

co-sign on this one though, heard most of it and the beats sound like lame knockoffs of past Jeezy shit. and he doesn’t seem to know to raplib anymore without sounding like he’s losing his voice. or screaming over the track. and yeah the hooks suck

By: Passion of the Weiss

Passion of the Weiss — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 20:43:41 +0000

I don’t know, since I’m never going to flip a brick and/or ride around all day with my gun cocked, I suppose I don’t find that much motivation from Jeezy.

I think we’ve become numbed to the idea that this type of music has to be inherently shallow and one-dimensional. I listened to “Hell on Earth” the other day and that album is far from dumb or shallow and it’s just as hard-core, cold and monolithic as anything Jeezy has ever made.