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The Recession's singles are exceptional, but the filler suffers from a detached and dispirited sound.
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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 Recession, then, is a portrait of the artist as an over-his-head young man.
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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 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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Mixed: 3 out of 34
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seanvanpeltJul 23, 2009Ridiculously low critic rating.. this is one of the best rap albums in years.