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| Pitchfork |
 The main takeaway from 1,000 Grams Vol. 1 is that we're seeing a potential feud brewing between Young Jeezy and Rick Ross. For connoisseurs of rap beef, that's an intriguing one. Jeezy and Ross are really the only two relevant, popular Southern rappers who haven't had to do any jail time over the past few years, and they both work in an extremely similar style. They're evenly matched. On "Death B4 Dishonor", the first song on 1,000 Grams, Jeezy hijacks the Ross track "B.M.F. (Blowin' Money Fast)", probably the summer's biggest straight-up banger, to throw a few thinly veiled barbs Ross' way.Jeezy's issue: Ross has reappropriated the initials of the drug gang Black Mafia Family and the name of Big Meech, their imprisoned leader, someone who Jeezy knows. So: "How you blowin' money fast? You don't know the crew/ Are you part of the fam? Shit, I never knew." Ross has already responded in song, obliquely accusing Jeezy of, among other things, being from Cleveland-- some inside baseball shit that I don't even understand. Suffice to say: Potentially the biggest rap battle of 2010 is a squabble over who has more right to use the name of an incarcerated drug dealer. That's some deeply silly shit. It also means the main takeaway of 1,000 Grams, the second Jeezy mixtape this year, is not the music contained therein. The tracks here all feel like afterthoughts. That wasn't the case on the tape's predecessor, Trap or Die II. On that one, Jeezy exhibited some seriously canny beat selection, picking some of the most chaotically sinister synth-blares of his entire career and showcasing his absolutely nuts new single "Lose My Mind". But on 1,000 Grams, Jeezy exclusively uses other people's beats, an old-school mixtape technique that not too many people mess with anymore. The tape finds Jeezy rapping over most of the bigger tracks of the last year or so. Sometimes those tracks work well with his voice, and sometimes they don't. Lex Luger's beats for "B.M.F." and Wacka Flocka Flame's "Hard in the Paint" sound like the synth-Sabbath stompers that Drumma Boy regularly makes for Jeezy, so he sounds right at home on them. But he's a mess on something like Timbaland and Drake's "Say Something", trying out an AutoTuned croon that the world really never needs to hear again....full text |
| Hiphop-n-more |
| The new mixtape from Jeezy drops this Thursday (August 12th) at 1:03pm. Thug Motivation 103 is due out on September 28th and if he doesn’t come out with a hit single within 2 weeks or so, it’s trouble....full text |
| Nappyafro |
| Unlike Trap Or Die II (Released earlier this year), the entire 1000 Grams mixtape consists of Jeezy rhyming over other people tracks. But of course the song titles are given the Jizzle treatment. For example, Kanye’s “Power” = “Powder”, Soulja Boy’s “Pretty Boy Swag” = “Dope Boy Swag”, and even Young Money’s “Roger That” = “Whippin’ All Of Dat”. The main attraction here though is “Death Before Dishonor” where Young Jeezy spits over Rick Ross’ “B.M.F. (Blowin’ Money Fast)”. Even though Jeezy denies it a diss track toward Ross , it’s kinda hard to argue with lines like “How you blowin’ money fast, you don’t know the crew?”....full text |
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