Jeezy uses the rasp like another instrument. The young nigga with the up-to-date watches.” I ain’t the type of nigga that’s gonna sit around and rap all day. But what does he do for interviews? He told Murderdog Magazine that: “I don’t even consider myself a rapper, to be honest with you. So the rasp is a vocalized style, as important to Jeezy’s success as his multi-volume thesaurus of cocaine slang. He doesn’t rasp in the conversation he has with a police officer in the short skit at the start of “Don’t Get Caught”, a lousy song anyway. At the same time, when you listen carefully, it isn’t like he’s an OK Computer or something. The Jeezy rasp is strange because it sounds incredibly overproduced and massively computer harmonized, so deeply digital that it’s hard to imagine he actually sounds anything like he does on record. Once you’ve accepted that Jeezy is not a master at the mic, you can begin to understand why he’s still so awesome. He might compare himself to Ghostface Killah, but it’s not for the skills it’s for the skrilla. But seriously, the rasp is what makes Jeezy a star. Or that he smokes a fuckload of cigarettes and his next album will be produced between bouts of chemotherapy. Whatever he says, you feel like he earned the right to say it. Dude sounds like his seeds are grown-ass men. ODB collected welfare cheques, Jeezy gets the senior’s discount. Young Jeezy will have no problem aging in the rap game - he already sounds old. The rasp of a man who’s been there, done that. All of it delivered in that unmistakable rasp.
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You can hear a comedic pleasure in the wordplay, comparing crack dealing to selling Krispy Kremes (“cooking them Os”) or playing horseshoes (“tossing them Os”), and about being “posted on the corner like a light pole”.
Jeezy has tons of range – he uses his voice like an actor.
It’s a simple pattern that is easily transformed into soulful moaning when the time calls. Jeezy’s trademark is to finish each line with a brilliant punch line, like an old time comedian. Drug addicts are the untold story of modern gangsta rap.īut on to more fun stuff: The Jeezy music! Like the recent Ying Yang Twins, or the little-known MC Yung Wun, three other bluesy rappers from Atlanta, or David Banner, yet another Southerner, Young Jeezy’s words are twanged out to give his flow supreme musical range. The thing to remember when you look at the cover image of Jeezy sitting in a dark basement closet surrounded by boxes and boxes of cash money is that it suggests his money came from exploiting the weakest, sickest, ugliest, most abused and disrespected people in American society. And these are the sickly, imperfect souls whose disease pays for all gangsta rap’s riches. Drug addicts should be in hospitals, but instead they roam the alleys and pick their scabs and get exploited by drug pushers. A crack dealer has got to deal with some ugly, sick, demented people with serious health problems. There’s nothing more horrible than seeing the ravages of crack addiction. I’m always astonished at how few MCs who came up by selling crack ever talk about the people they sold it to. Jeezy’s non-promoting braggadocio is witty. “A hundred grand on my wrist, yeah, life sucks / Fuck the club, dawg, I’d rather count a million bucks”.
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The lyrics don’t so much promote crack dealing as give advice as to how to become a better crack dealer, so as to inspire thugs to earn enough money to get out of crack dealing and do something with less of a prison sentence attached. Jeezy has said that his album doesn’t promote the life of a drug dealer. The title track is an epic guttery gladiatorial theme song, prepped for the film adaptation of the book / CD / T-Shirt. “You ain’t never seen them pies / We’re talking so much white, it’ll hurt your eyes / I really lived it, man / Counted so much paper, it’ll hurt your hands”. Every line is intended to represent the secret language of the trap star. Let’s Get It is not a brilliant rap record, leave that to Raekwon, but Jeezy has still created his own worthwhile tribute to the poetic slang of the American crack cocaine economy. Let’s Get It: Thug Motivation 101 is Young Jeezy’s first official album after a couple extremely popular mix tapes, including Trap or Die, which got Jeezy more buzz on the street than a leaf blower and assured this his debut under Jay-Z’s Def Jam is going to be given the due praises.
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