Jeezy sells the hoary details of the song's poverty lament- no cable in the house, old milk in the empty fridge- with gut-twisting force. In fact, a lot of it is pretty great: "Trapped" opens with a verse from boho neo-soul queen Jill Scott that induces misplaced nostalgia shivers for classic Lauryn Hill. Nothing much is visibly wrong with Thug Motivation 103. Thug Motivation 103: Hustlerz Ambition, which has finally wheezed its way across the finish line, is a telling moment: It's a solid effort, but it's also the first time that supply for the Snowman's product has begun to outstrip demand. Rick Ross is the overfed rap kingpin of the moment the simmering feud between them has nothing to do with street credentials and everything to do with the fact that in a rap moment mired in varsity-lettered, middle-class nice guys, there's room for only one Rambo. Nowadays, Jeezy is just another down-on-his luck gangsta rapper being jerked around by his record company. The widescreen production, from Shawty Redd, DJ Toomp, and others, furnished the exploding tanks while Jeezy supplied the boiled-down, bumper-sticker dialogue: "I remember nights/ I didn't remember nights." "Who, me?/ I emerge from the crack smoke." He was Stallone in Cobra he was Schwarzenegger in Commando.īut every decade has its own action heroes.
His first three albums were some of the last decade's finest action flicks. He grew famous peddling an overblown, over-simplified cartoon of machismo and violence, pumped full of dubious sociopolitical implications and adrenaline. Once upon a time, Young Jeezy was invincible, a superhero.
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