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Elsewhere we get lots of the usual earthquake bass and keening synth arpeggios and staccato horns, and, of course, Jeezy's hypnotically commanding flow, all of it amounting to one of the hardest mainstream rap albums in years.
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Jeezy manages to keep a strong unified album together without ever getting monotonous or tired.
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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.
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80The album touches upon economic issues without dwelling on them, and it captures the spirit of the times with an unerring precision.
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There's a unique pleasure in hearing a once one-dimensional rapper discover complexity, and for that Recession is nearly indispensable.
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80Young Jeezy balances commercial/ pop aspirations with core hip-hop sounds on The Recession, getting a lift from DJ Toomp, Drumma Boy, Midnight Black and longtime collaborator Shawty Redd on this sonically enjoyable follow-up to 2006's "The Inspiration."
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His first two albums were well-crafted, uncompromising in their focus, and exceptionally entertaining. The Recession makes it three.
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80With the expectations set high, The Recession doesn't disappoint, though as with any of his albums, it would benefit from some truncation.
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Relistening, the porousness and vapidity of the material makes it pretty obvious that rapper Jeezy's personality is one note, gruff and brash, forever and ever. But in the album's waning moments, 'My President' erases any genuine qualms, sporting the record's best Toomp impression.
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Recession is silly, repetitive, and wildly unoriginal. Yet thanks to Jeezy's razor-blade rasp and goofy charisma, it's also strangely infectious.
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70If recession-era Jeezy sounds a lot like boom-time Jeezy--describing coke cooking and the cars one gets in reward-that's because he has always fancied himself an educator, a Learning Annex lecturer, an inspirational-desktop-calendar hustler.
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70Jeezy may have the most charismatic voice in rap now--a fierce but fine-gravel shout that hits your ears soft like a whisper--and his beat selection remains pitch perfect--but Jeezy still doesn't realise that selling drugs was good only for Jeezy. He's a cartoon, a proforma thug, and when he tries to relate he fails miserably. [Dec 2008, p.74]
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65Bolstered by a gimmick and a catchphrase, the album is by-and-large Jeezy qua Jeezy, and the new fissures aren't enough to keep pundits gabbing.
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Even if it falls a distant third out of the first three, the scattershot Recession is still a welcome and even risky step forward, one carried by its highlights and the newfound awareness that the cocaine grind isn't everything.
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While the usual approach is still good for a certain seductive brawniness, there's not much here that Jeezy hasn't done before.
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The Atlanta crack rapper's third album is largely a faithful rehash of his first two platters, which transformed him from unrepentant hustler to unlikely inspirational figure.
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The Recession's singles are exceptional, but the filler suffers from a detached and dispirited sound.
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Putting out an album called The Recession right now, and draping the American flag over your head on its cover, comes with expectations of politically conscious ruminations. Instead, we get more of the same
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The Recession, then, is a portrait of the artist as an over-his-head young man.
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Jeezy's sonic sins would be partially pardonable were The Recession to flash any hint of fun or humor. Instead, the street-cred-consumed caricature is more content to rip off Tupac Shakur ("Hustlaz Ambition") and write abominable hooks.
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seanvanpelt10Ridiculously low critic rating.. this is one of the best rap albums in years.
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