young jeezy 'the recession'

3. By The Way

This is v. hard. I'm still getting into this album and my favourites keep changing but I'm thinking at the moment it's between "What They Want", "Circulate", "Vacation" and "Everything". That'll probably change though.

the 'don't know you' thru 'everything' run is ridiculously good...i feel like i want to say 'circulate' but i think it's still 'put on' actually! i don't think of it as part of the warp and weft of the album so much as the others cuz i'd rinsed it so so much before the album came out, but it's still special.

also 'my president' will definitely get me emotional tomorrow night :/

12. Vacation

http://i36.tinypic.com/do554x.jpg

voted circulate tho

voted "Put On". Song's a monster. "Recession (intro)", "Circulate", "By the Way", "Word Play" and a few more close tho. Such a good album.

so many good beats on this

Voted "Circulate" because voting for "Put On" would be kinda boring. "My President" is close, too.

really a toss-up, and hard to vote against "circulate," but the title track just feels so otm.

"put on" is the only one that i sing to myself

I'm pretty much torn between Circulate, By The Way, My President and Put On, all four of which are pretty unfuckable-with. I really love What They Want as well.

AND MY LAMBO'S BLUE

is this your fave jeezy album, ilx. it's mine.

i voted for circulate but at any given moment it could be "don't you know" or "vacation" or "welcome back" or the one w/ boosie

welcome back, hustlaz ambition, what they want

this and thug motivation are really really close

recession is more consistent i think

i have definitely listened to this one more than i had thug motivation at a similar post-release point.

Actually I meant Crazy World, not What They Want.

This has been in my car for weeks! V solid album. I think "Put On" or "My President" will get my vote, but fuck this is hard!

Next poll: Recession vs. Carter III ???

I'd been meaning to do a Recession vs. Carter III vs. Paper Trail poll for a minute but I didn't want to do it to soon after the latter came out.

"by the way" would usually get my vote but not today

my hood vs. circulate

don't understand the comparison at all but circulate all the way

go crazy vs vacation

don't understand the comparison at all but circulate all the way

― some dude, Tuesday, November 4, 2008 11:47 AM

ilm took the sense out of poll-making a long time ago

am I the the only person who kinda feels like "Vacation" and "My President" are the weak spots on the album?

vacation vacation vacation

my president is enhhh tho

vacation is massively dope

my president is a good Epic Album Closer imo but all three verses are only aight

agreed some dude

I didn't like "Crazy World" much at first but now that radio's playing it a little I'm jamming it hard

a friend of mine may be the only person on earth who digs this album but is all "pshhh Circulate ain't all that"

"Vacation" is amazing WTF.

Young vs T.I. vs Wayne - I'd probably rank in that order. Young definitely top, not quite certain about the order of the other two.

it's really tough actually! i'd probably go jeezy > wayne >>> t.i.

but paper trail isn't actually as standard as i initially judged, and wayne/jeezy are pretty close to each other (for difft reasons)

Yeah I feel differently about Paper Trail each time I listen...

i feel a lot more kindly to it now that i've got past the evaluative "listen to it all the way through" stage over and done with, and just skip to the tracks i love, inc the inexplicably left off 'let my beat pound'

i like vacation except for the irritating piano loop

Vacation is okay but there are a load I like more on here. The last minute of Don't Do It, with the interlocking voices, is astonishing.

I'd also go for Jeezy > Weezy >>>>> TI. Carter III has higher highs but it less consistent.

Yeah I'm flipping to "Don't Do It" myself now.

Barack Obama, we see you

jeezy is easily the best of those three records - love this album and i guess ill vote circulate

even though its not the most typical-sounding track really

yeah "Circulate" is so obvious and awesome that I'm kinda just trying to force myself to vote for something else...don't know why they haven't pushed it as a single.

Damn, am I the only one that isn't really into this? Even if there are a few moments of awesomeness, it's easily my least favorite among Jeezy's albums and among Recession/Paper Trail/C3.

Paper Trail >> C3 >>>>>>>>> Recession

'Takin' It There' is the song that has really grown on me in the last week or so... not sure it tops 'Circulate' but very little will this year.

corrections

thread was about dollhouse

thread was on nb not 77

Urban Legend does have some serious classix, especially in the first 5 or 6 tracks, but past that I really only like or particularly remember a couple songs. But the real difference is that its pandering crossover records are terrible Jazze Pha/Scott Storch shit, where Paper Trail has, I think, more tolerable filler and pop jams.

paper trail and C3 are pretty similar: lots of big name producers; lots of really good looks and lots of really bad looks; a few career peaks, a few career lows. i think c3 has the better pop songs (a milli, got money, comfortable) and the better rap songs (a milli, dr. carter, 3 peat). paper trail has some good stuff but there are lots of songs on there that i don't want to listen to, and after t.i. vs. t.i.p. forced, uninteresting t.i. songs are no longer "interesting" (i hope that makes sense). with wayne, at least the schizophrenia of the album fits into his post-carter II narrative. it's made for a lot of interesting writing and lots of interesting thinking imo. if you dropped me on an island with either of those two i'd take c3 in an instant.

neither tops jeezy at all to me. the recession is one of the most emotionally gravitational rap albums i've heard in a while. after the election i tried to listen to it as a celebration but it just didn't feel like getting sucked into how i feel when listening to the recession. it's not celebratory but it's not depressive, it's somewhere inbetween i think. maybe celebration while emerging from struggle but nothing is joyous on there like "go crazy". it's very epochal and i think it hits exactly what jeezy was aiming for.

i hope that made sense it was lots of thinking out loud

recession does catch a really consistent emotional feeling - id say its pretty raw but not at all celebratory or depressing, more like a rallying cry or something

yeah good call j0rdan...man it's nice to have 3 big zeitgeist-defining rap from the summer/early fall to discuss like this...I can't imagine the next couple months of Kanye/50 pt. 2 + maybe Eminem will be nearly as interesting or as rich in legitimate points of comparison.

also i think 'vacation' is totally great

yeah rallying cry is good. lately i've been shying away from listening to the recession because it's kind of like entering another world. i hope it doesn't look like im using code for "i don't feel like entering the world of poor people" but listening to the recession straight through often feels to me like willingly submitting myself to dystopia. and since jeezy isn't really rapping much differently (even his RECESSION MOMENTS are really ham-handed [i.e. granny's nerve bills vs. new watch]) there's just something about the album just has that feel. it obv has a lot to do with jeezy's presence but we've known that to be his best asset ever since he jumped off. maybe i'm just a sucker for the recession pseudo-arc, but yeah like i said, one of the most moving rap albums in a while for me.

"56 Bars (Intro)"
"3 Peat"
"I'm Illy"
"A Milli"
"Got Money"
"Swing Ya Rag"
"Live Your Life"
"Comfortable"
"Dr. Carter"
"Swagga Like Us"
"You Ain't Got Nuthin"
"Let The Beat Build"
"No Matter What"
"Dead and Gone"
"Tie My Hands"

this would be a good album. forgive the haphazard tracklisting.

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this is maybe the best hip hop album of the year.

NIGGA WE DAT

JUST LOOK AT EM FLY

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9. Don’t You Know

the chorus on this one is so incredible

this is maybe the best hip hop album of the year.

― titchyschneiderMk2, Wednesday, 26 November 2008 16:13 (3 weeks ago)

hustlaz ambition overrated

'circulate' didnt hit as hard for me since i knew the og + love the dillar R&B-ified version

the "my president" video, as debuted on ABCNEWS.COM

http://abcnews.go.com/video/playerIndex?id=6663306

guys i love jeezy so much

bernie mac, soulja slim and pimp c right next to oprah, ghandi and malcom x

: )

That made my day.

i would like to think that Nas's "pole-itician" pun was censored for aesthetic reasons

hahaha

Every time I see this thread or listen to this album I idly start imagining Usher rewriting "Confessions" as a song about the recession (e.g "Just when I thought that I'd paid all the bills I could pay/the bank says I've got one on the way"). I'm not proud of this but I felt a compulsive desire to share.

tim you should write and record this parody song. i'm willing to bet that it would be better than anything usher released last year

Jeezy in The Wall Street Journal this afternoon:

The current crisis has yet to produce a chart topper. "The Recession," a CD by Young Jeezy, an Atlanta purveyor of "gangsta" rap, made it to No. 1 on the Billboard magazine chart in September, but, despite what the title would seem to indicate, its songs have little to do with the economy, at least the one Wall Street investors track.

Full article here: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123387724064054525.html

did he get a stipple portrait!!??

yeah but its way off

http://s.wsj.net/public/resources/images/HC-GN336_Adams_BV_20090205152848.gif

had a dream i was writing for the wall street journal

Oh yeah?

yeah.

Yeah!

cannot believe that get alot did not get more votes.
that song is as fucking epic as they come

"Circulate" is still all time top but now i might've voted for "Who Dat"

you should've said "can't believe that get alot didn't get alot of votes"

lolz

this album still bangs so hard

rap could use a new jeezy record

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tHt-JyI-8Vk

this album is such a good fall/winter album

otm. also good spring/summer album

LOVE ME SOME SPINACH DIP
ADDICTED TO HOUSTONS

I NEED A VACATION

young jeezy gives me goosebumps

last night looked so fucking awesome really wish i was there

cool guy eh

Rapper Young Jeezy has been arrested in Atlanta, Georgia, according to a U.S. report.

The Put On hitmaker was detained on Friday for battery, false imprisonment and making terroristic threats against his son, according to court documents.

Young Jeezy, real name Jay Jenkins, stands accused of throwing his son through a glass shower door, dragging him to the floor and punching him in the face during an altercation in September, 2012.

He is also accused of choking his son and threatening to "kill him."

On Friday, the rapper turned himself in to police authorities and was subsequently released on $45,000 bond.

I guess he caught him playing Gucci Mane tapes.

Time for da sequel

My President was Black
My lambo was blue
Now we got armed rednecks
Screaming "COVID'S FLU!"

ha, that comes close the new (very good) young dolph single

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XK9Ewt6ELkc