![]() He breathes hard on the track and stares down his microphone like it hates him. It's a joyous moment but also the scariest album opener I've heard this year. On opener "Thug Motivation 101" Jeezy pounds his chest and growls, "I used to hit the kitchen lights, cockroaches er'where/ Now I hit the kitchen lights, there's marble floors er'where" over tense, eerie keyboards. But he slings a sometimes-creepy, sometimes-clever, sometimes-chaotic charisma and he rides that magnetism to a mostly brilliant solo entrance to the bigs. Let's Get It is not the best rap album of the year and Jeezy is hardly the world's greatest lyricist. ![]() He is a conduit between the South, where most of today's commercially lucrative hip-hop originates, and a lagging East Coast scene. Young Jeezy's proper debut has been a long time coming, though it's been a treat hearing his weathered, weezy rasp on mixtapes (most notably DJ Drama's Trap or Die).
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