Young Jeezy Interview
Talks about DMX, Luda Video, new album, clothing, and his label.
It's a real nice interview and I am hyped for Jeezy next album.
It's a real nice interview and I am hyped for Jeezy next album.
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Honestly, not to insult you or anything, but who cares about this? -
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C'mon now Can't knock the Snowman...He's got some tracks that are hot...Comment
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I love that everybody likes different kinds of music and what not.. but I still can't help but to lmao at the rap scene. I cannot believe I read that entire interview. Especially at the DMX comment.Comment
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So uh, what happens if he somehow survives and is 40 years old? Will he be called Old Jeezy?
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kinda like lil bow wow, huh. Maybe he'll switch his rap still and stop cussing too.Comment
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Please, isnt that what rap is about nowadays...cussing?
Take your favorite MAINSTREAM rapper, take all his cussing out and it doesnt make sense.
Im getting too old for this ****!!!!
edit....after reading the interview, I must say....
Ignorance sells. Kids, please....STAY IN SCHOOL. It is not cool being a fool.Last edited by Gilateen; 10-23-2006, 11:30 AM.Comment
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This is what mainstream rap is about.
True hip hop fans listen to artists that actually say things that mean something and don't blast off on other people.
I'm picky about which artists I listen to regularly (for example, all South music is pretty much garbage to me with the exception of artists like T.I. - who to me is more of a Southern rapper with an East Coast style...maybe that's why I like him), but for some reason I actually like Young Jeezy - and he's the only one of his type that I listen to.
Anyway, point is, those are for my mainstream hungers. Everyone has them even for other types of music. But, realize that there are very good artists out there that are not promoted by MTV.
It wouldn't be fair for me to say that all rock music is about heavy guitar riffs, background vocals from two males who can only sing a note in the shower, a drummer with tattoos all over his body and piercings across his face, and a lead singing girl who looks goth, but attempts to make herself look sexy by wearing revealing clothing. Would it?"It may well be that we spectators, who are not divinely gifted as athletes, are the only ones able to truly see, articulate and animate the experience of the gift we are denied. And that those who receive and act out the gift of athletic genius must, perforce, be blind and dumb about it -- and not because blindness and dumbness are the price of the gift, but because they are its essence." - David Foster Wallace
"You'll not find more penny-wise/pound-foolish behavior than in Major League Baseball." - Rob NeyerComment
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I havent heard a Jeezy track where he said anything that is meaningful.Comment
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"It may well be that we spectators, who are not divinely gifted as athletes, are the only ones able to truly see, articulate and animate the experience of the gift we are denied. And that those who receive and act out the gift of athletic genius must, perforce, be blind and dumb about it -- and not because blindness and dumbness are the price of the gift, but because they are its essence." - David Foster Wallace
"You'll not find more penny-wise/pound-foolish behavior than in Major League Baseball." - Rob NeyerComment
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Yeah, people have told me that everything from his rhymes are true, as in he has lived through it. Sometimes I don't buy it though. I could be wrong, but I'll take my dope-sounding rap over anything that is aired on the radio any day of the week. If that makes me an undergrounder, then yeah... I'm an undergrounder.
First line almost made me stop reading...
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Wtf!?!?!?!SAN ANTONIO SPURSComment
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I don't have a hard time believing that Young Jeezy is truthful (I honestly really don't care) because the man is a crack dealer and it's very probable that he has been involved in several crack dealing confrontations in his past. In addition, he is a product of his environment so the things he says or believes is true to him. We could sit here and say, "Man, things aren't really that way." But, for Young Jeezy they are because he's grown up being told it is that way and he's only a part of a generation of people that 1) believe it and 2) pass down that thought.
I'm not saying it's right/wrong or anything. I'm merely stating that facts to him would be different to us because his upbringing is vastly different than others.
That being said, he doesn't say anything of value or meaning. It means something to him, but it doesn't mean something to a movement of people trying to instill positiveness and an approach to being legally successful in life.
I like how he raps and his cockiness so I listened to his album and consider it one of the best South albums of that type (Outkast, for example, is not of his type) because of his ability to perform - which is actually a required trait to being successful in the business. But, the words that come out of his mouth are ignorant and immature. I won't get into the morality of purchasing an album for a man that condones illegal activity and street cred as a product of a young man's individual worth. That's for another discussion.
But, Young Jeezy is a product of mainstream hip hop, not true monumental hip hop. That was the point in my first post. He feeds the mainstream hunger, but true hip hop heads that understand music and don't just follow headless sheep realize that Young Jeezy is a mainstream artist and nothing more.
It's unfortunate that guys like Young Jeezy are the focal point in describing the state of hip hop. The truth is because MTV markets that style it is perceived as the only one. There are several hip hop artists that promote positivity and rap because rapping is fun and has a rich history.
Hip hop is definitely in a bad state because it's already marketed as negative. MTV and radio stations only promote the negative forms of it so the world views it as negative. It's simple really. The artists that get international fame and are viewed as role models are the ones children see everyday on tv and it so happens that those on tv are the negative ones.
Again, I won't get into the reasons for this form of marketing and promotion. I'm not interested in discussing the benefit gained from marketers and promoters to have young black children follow grown men that act as immature as the children that listen to them. It isn't rocket science to understand this form of advertising.
That first line from Young Jeezy is a direct example of how he is a poster child that followed in the footsteps of poor individuals portrayed in a market as great and then turns around and becomes the product that was sold to him."It may well be that we spectators, who are not divinely gifted as athletes, are the only ones able to truly see, articulate and animate the experience of the gift we are denied. And that those who receive and act out the gift of athletic genius must, perforce, be blind and dumb about it -- and not because blindness and dumbness are the price of the gift, but because they are its essence." - David Foster Wallace
"You'll not find more penny-wise/pound-foolish behavior than in Major League Baseball." - Rob NeyerComment
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