![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Prodigy meets all these requirements, so in many ways it means nothing for him to tell us he doesn’t care about rap. It has a rubric, a criteria, standards and practices. Prodigy is from New York, and in New York, rap always has and always will mean something specific. I think immediately of Prodigy, who said “Fuck rap-I’m tryna make cream and that’s that.” But Prodigy delivered this line in the midst of an incredible verse, in the midst of an incredible rap career, as an incredible rapper. What Jeezy is saying is, of course, not an original sentiment. There is much to say about this album, this era, the city both men came from, and the impact this album had on their art and their world. The production is courtesy of Demetrius Lee Stewart, or Shawty Redd. It’s from a song called “Get Ya Mind Right” off Jeezy’s debut, Thug Motivation 101. To me, the bars took the mask off a genre I love and foolishly believed I understood. The bars come courtesy of Jeezy’s instrument, a voice that makes it difficult to determine if he’s a 28-year old Atlanta rapper or a thousand year old demon forged in Satan’s hellmouth his vocal cords sanded to ragged threads on the devil’s lathe.īut it’s not just that. It goes like this: “Rappin’ ass n****, betta do numbers/I ain’t gotta rap, I’mma do numbers (chea).” It was delivered circa 2005 by Jay Wayne Jenkins, better known as Young Jeezy. But on a granular level, it’s composed of bars, and there is one in particular that has stuck with me in a way few others ever have. Artists and albums and songs and verses and hooks. Rap is an artform divided by regions and sub-genres. Young Jeezy Ft.Power companies are still charging for the light bill, so please help keep us running by subscribing to Passion of the Weiss on Patreon.Ībe Beame been paid to tell the truth, it only makes sense. Ross might want to wait a minute on trying to capitalize off another drug kingpin (i.e. Larry Hoover has been in jail for almost 30 years Meech only five. Jeezy was a part of that era, and I’m sure he feels some way about someone else is benefiting from screaming his name on a track reminiscent of a Trap Or Die track. got taken down almost completely a couple of years ago, but people like me who remember seeing their faces on a Billboard over the highway and seeing them literally invent the act of taking $50,000 and making it rain in the club know how they got down. It sorts of feels like a retaliation to Rick Ross’s monster hit “B.M.F.”, especially because in the title of the song it says “ the real Blowing Money Fast”. Young Jeezy dropped this one and got his homie Big Meech on there straight off one of those 10-minute calls from prison. ![]()
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