Young Jeezy - The Recession
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As commercial rappers go, Young Jeezy and The Game don't have much in
common. Jeezy speaks in an Atlanta drawl, while The Game is a gruff son
of Compton. Jeezy brags on his albums about selling cocaine; The Game
waxes poetic about gang warfare. Yet with their third CDs, they share a
tough choice: Switch things up or stick with the formulas that earned
their previous efforts gold and platinum plaques?
It's clear from The Recession's first track that Jeezy has done the
former, ditching the ebullient street-capitalist persona of his first
two CDs: ''It's the recession/Everybody broke,'' he gripes. A majestic
wall-of-synths backdrop prevents that intro from feeling like too much
of a bummer, though — a balancing act the rapper repeats throughout the
album. Jeezy has assembled a politically tinged disc that will sound
spectacular blasting out of dashboard speakers for the rest of the
year...assuming anyone can still afford to drive a car by then.
The Game, meanwhile, doesn't seem to have adjusted his model in the
slightest. As on his first two efforts, he spends L.A.X. barking
gleefully ignorant gangsta fantasies over hard-knocking drums. And while
the 19-track disc could...
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