The thing to remember when you look at the cover image of Jeezy sitting in a dark basement closet surrounded by boxes and boxes of cash money is that it suggests his money came from exploiting the weakest, sickest, ugliest, most abused and disrespected people in American society. And these are the sickly, imperfect souls whose disease pays for all gangsta rap’s riches. Drug addicts should be in hospitals, but instead they roam the alleys and pick their scabs and get exploited by drug pushers.
A crack dealer has got to deal with some ugly, sick, demented people with serious health problems. There’s nothing more horrible than seeing the ravages of crack addiction. I’m always astonished at how few MCs who came up by selling crack ever talk about the people they sold it to. Jeezy’s non-promoting braggadocio is witty. “A hundred grand on my wrist, yeah, life sucks / Fuck the club, dawg, I’d rather count a million bucks”.
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The lyrics don’t so much promote crack dealing as give advice as to how to become a better crack dealer, so as to inspire thugs to earn enough money to get out of crack dealing and do something with less of a prison sentence attached. Jeezy has said that his album doesn’t promote the life of a drug dealer.
The title track is an epic guttery gladiatorial theme song, prepped for the film adaptation of the book / CD / T-Shirt. “You ain’t never seen them pies / We’re talking so much white, it’ll hurt your eyes / I really lived it, man / Counted so much paper, it’ll hurt your hands”. Every line is intended to represent the secret language of the trap star. Let’s Get It is not a brilliant rap record, leave that to Raekwon, but Jeezy has still created his own worthwhile tribute to the poetic slang of the American crack cocaine economy. Let’s Get It: Thug Motivation 101 is Young Jeezy’s first official album after a couple extremely popular mix tapes, including Trap or Die, which got Jeezy more buzz on the street than a leaf blower and assured this his debut under Jay-Z’s Def Jam is going to be given the due praises.
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