The Recession and The Massacre
Jeezys best album. It didn’t have the impact TM101 did which is viewed objectively has a classic but god damn this album is great from beginning to end.
Same with The Massacre. The singles got overplayed but the music and songwriting is some of Fifs best m. Especially if you listened to a lot of g unit radio.
I thought “The Recession” was considered a classic. If not consider your sentiment seconded. Tied for my favorite Jeezy Album with TM 102.
I didnt expect the growth he showed on 102 so it was kind of a shock. I honestly thought 101 would be his ceiling, as far as concepts and rhymes. Pure winter album. The production was more cohesive, and its sound and organization was more cinematic than 101. Personal classic that I always feel gets overlooked. Never gets old, where 101 had the huge rollout and flashy singles, 102 equaled, and possibly surpassed it with depth and thoughtfulness.
I was completely shocked at how mature he was on “The recession”. When the album title was announced I thought it was going to be a whole bunch of “nikka I’m recession proof”, “couldn’t be you nikkas”, “caught your bytch in a bind” ass raps. The positivity and motivation he tried to offer, when most rappers, were shytting on their listeners is something I’ll always appreciate Jeezy for. He didn’t have to make this album the way he did. I know I’m not the only one who thought he would regress on this one. Not only did he vastly improve lyrically, the production may have been the best of the mid-ass late 2000’s. The album subtly rode trends, while dragging them forward, and somehow still bucking them. My favorite albums of 2008 were “Rising Down”, “Paper Trail”, Nas’ “Untitled”, “HNIC 2”, “The Renaissance”, “Theater of the Mind” and “Carter 3”. The only one that shocked me as much as “The Recession” was “Theater of the mind”. It felt like Luda finally put a cohesive album together that didn’t wander or fade. To me, Recession surpassed all of them.
One of the few categorized “Trap” artist to also be a conscious artist (Tip, like Luda is a standard lyricist at heart), in my eyes. I know the rhymes, bars, and syllables are kind of rudimentary but, like younger Boosie and Webbie, BG and Slim, those shyts cut deep when they hit.