Where were you when you first heard Air Forces by Jeezy?/Appreciation Thread

[2manyFCKNrappers]

This the song that REALLY made me pay attention.

 

[KENNY DA COOKER]

I was on a military base in georgia.....going thru child support issues with my babymama...

i use to hear a lil Jeezy now and then when he was "Lil J" outta macon.....i wasn't that far from macon.....cause i lived in southeast georgia....but i wasn't impressed

but one night was listening to DJ ABSOLUTE on the live stream of hot 97 play Fabolous and Jeezy "Do the Damn thing"...

thought Jeezy flow was sick..."let me show u what i stand for..jeezy scharznegger ...call me commando!"

and wanted to hear more....went by the mixtape spot and copped DJ drama Trap or die mixtape after the crazy intro....this was the first song that caught my attention....

i was blown away....his delivery was sooooooo confident and relaxed over that subtle dark azz beat....

it was right up my alley cause i loved dark beats..being an original east coast head...

then i saw the video on a Smack DVD and was like

the way it captured the dark theme of the song with it's black and white footage...who would have thought that video would be so prophetic considering 6 of the dudes in that video wound up in the feds later on during the BMF raid.....

bull...throwback...meech...Illz P...O Dog....Sekou

 

[Luken]

the video should be in the hip-hop hall of fame

 

[DoomzdayzV]

I was on a military base in georgia.....going thru child support issues with my babymama...

i use to hear a lil Jeezy now and then when he was "Lil J" outta macon.....i wasn't that far from macon.....cause i lived in southeast georgia....but i wasn't impressed

but one night was listening to DJ ABSOLUTE on the live stream of hot 97 play Fabolous and Jeezy "Do the Damn thing"...

thought Jeezy flow was sick..."let me show u what i stand for..jeezy scharznegger ...call me commando!"

and wanted to hear more....went by the mixtape spot and copped DJ drama Trap or die mixtape after the crazy intro....this was the first song that caught my attention....

i was blown away....his delivery was sooooooo confident and relaxed over that subtle dark azz beat....

it was right up my alley cause i loved dark beats..being an original east coast head...

then i saw the video on a Smack DVD and was like

the way it captured the dark theme of the song with it's black and white footage...who would have thought that video would be so prophetic considering 6 of the dudes in that video wound up in the feds later on during the BMF raid.....

bull...throwback...meech...Illz P...O Dog....Sekou

Bun is such an awkward looking dude.....dude is in his own universe of swaglessness. T-Rex arm having ass

and Jeezy was literally the LAST new rapper to impress me...he had a unique style and wasnt trying to sound like anyone else.

 

[Art Barr]

Video is literally the best rap visual of just car lights and black and white for that exact time and no one has surpassed it.

I still remember being floored by it, and not feeling like this was a fluke.

Air forces is the litmus test visual for that era and moving forward.

Imo, it is his best record before I had the full 101 on advance.
After having an early trap or die mixtape too.



Art Barr

 

[smokeurobinson]

Listening to the cd after my homie said the TM101 cd was trash and me agreeing after listening too the cd in its entirety.

 

[Alfred0Santana]

Was in high school...living in Maryland at the time. I was on a whole Diplomats/G-Unit wave being up north but Jeezy might have been the nikka to really open my ear to down south rappers before I ended up moving back to Tennessee and getting put on to everybody else. I had this shyt as my voicemail back in high school and my mom called and heard it one day . She was pissed. Talked to my dad and had me change it

 

[Art Barr]

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Bun is such an awkward looking dude.....dude is in his own universe of swaglessness. T-Rex arm having ass

and Jeezy was literally the LAST new rapper to impress me...he had a unique style and wasnt trying to sound like anyone else.

He sounded like ti.
Plus Gucci but the collective we did not know the full story at that exact time.

Jeezy was the epitome of the wackest rapper will be the highest draw and I distinctly remember telling everyone .
That they politicized the culture and skill so far out of existence.
That this is what it is.
Where the wackest least skilled rapper will be the new top draw.

Art Barr

 

[KENNY DA COOKER]

Jeezy was the epitome of the wackest rapper will be the highest draw and I distinctly remember telling everyone .
That they politicized the culture and skill so far out of existence.
That this is what it is.
Where the wackest least skilled rapper will be the new top draw.

Art Barr

Jeezy sure ain't a lyricist...

but i'd gladly rank him over your incoherent psuedo bars you be spitting

what guys like yourself have to understand ...is there is more to being a rapper besides just being "wordy"....

first and formost you have to have ENERGY!!!...which basically provides the ENTERTAINMENT value to spoken words over the mic

second you gotta have a STORY to tell usually from a biographic perspective...

and trust me nobody wants to hear the tales of an underachieving backpack rapper such as yourself from the Chi...

yeah i'll admit you keep the messageboard hot....but fukk hip hop...you never ever ever had an ALBUM drop...

so who are YOU to speak on a major label signee who has not only made sales but has regardless what you think..made GREAT ART!

 

[Trilogy]

Jeezy sure ain't a lyricist...

but i'd gladly rank him over your incoherent psuedo bars you be spitting

what guys like yourself have to understand ...is there is more to being a rapper besides just being "wordy"....

first and formost you have to have ENERGY!!!...which basically provides the ENTERTAINMENT value to spoken words over the mic

second you gotta have a STORY to tell usually from a biographic perspective...

and trust me nobody wants to hear the tales of an underachieving backpack rapper such as yourself from the Chi...

yeah i'll admit you keep the messageboard hot....but fukk hip hop...you never ever ever had an ALBUM drop...

so who are YOU to speak on a major label signee who has not only made sales but has regardless what you think..made GREAT ART!

it's not that serious

 

[Art Barr]

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Jeezy sure ain't a lyricist...

but i'd gladly rank him over your incoherent psuedo bars you be spitting

what guys like yourself have to understand ...is there is more to being a rapper besides just being "wordy"....

first and formost you have to have ENERGY!!!...which basically provides the ENTERTAINMENT value to spoken words over the mic

second you gotta have a STORY to tell usually from a biographic perspective...

and trust me nobody wants to hear the tales of an underachieving backpack rapper such as yourself from the Chi...

yeah i'll admit you keep the messageboard hot....but fukk hip hop...you never ever ever had an ALBUM drop...

so who are YOU to speak on a major label signee who has not only made sales but has regardless what you think..made GREAT ART!

He is a voice over artist and real talk.
I am the person who originally reviewed trap or die and said 101 was the sonic revolution equivalent for the south and the sonic equivalent of what the chronic is.


He fits right into your simple minded prison industrial economy ideal.

I think you do not know but needed to be reminded i am the reason why this community is a safe haven for jeezy, Gucci and weezy.

So stfu like I have to check you like usual.
As you forget I do what you ain't never did on yo own ever, street, board room or hiphop.
As you ain't supplied a cot damn thing and nobody knows or gives a fukk about any artist as a skill or cultural submission you ever managed ever.

To the point no one gives one iota of a fukk whom you are.

Now stfu impressionable prison industrial economy face ass nikka.
I can not even talk on the net for real and you know this cause I had to check you before.




Art Barr

I am how this actual community knew what trap or die, the advance and 101 were.

 

[OHSNAP!]

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He sounded like ti.
Plus Gucci but the collective we did not know the full story at that exact time.

Jeezy was the epitome of the wackest rapper will be the highest draw and I distinctly remember telling everyone .
That they politicized the culture and skill so far out of existence.
That this is what it is.
Where the wackest least skilled rapper will be the new top draw.

Art Barr

While not a great lyricist, Jeezy followed the Dipset route and talked like the streets, walked like the streets, dressed like the streets and used street slang. So he was AUTHENTIC, unlike your favorite lyrical miracle or wannabe-street nikkas from the past

He had the energy, charisma, ruthlessness but also some nice introspective cuts (Dreamin'!), so no need to hate

 

[Art Barr]

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While not a great lyricist, Jeezy followed the Dipset route and talked like the streets, walked like the streets, dressed like the streets and used street slang. So he was AUTHENTIC, unlike your favorite lyrical miracle or wannabe-street nikkas from the past

He had the energy, charisma, ruthlessness but also some nice introspective cuts (Dreamin'!), so no need to hate

Dawg,...again
I am how these artist Gucci and jeezy got the cred from as far as quality of work.

I reviewed the shyt first and am the exact reason you nikkaz get to talk and gush over this shyt.
As there was no talk of jeezy or Gucci ever on this board in a positive before I brought attention to it.
Nobody even looked their way.


Art Barr

Ain't shyt you can tell me about no Gucci or jeezy period

 

[Ed MOTHERFUCKING G]

spring break 2004, a dude on oceans on South Beach was selling STREETS IZ WATCHING...my homie bought it, and we played it in the hotel

breh,

we just ran them first 5 songs back

Over here
p*ssy mufukkas
Dem Boyz
Air Forces
come shop wit me pt 2

we thought he was from miami since trick daddy was on the song... i was like wtf, these miami niccas got next

he started blowing up immediately after that when over here / air forces and DEM BOYZ dropped

i remember looping DEM BOYZ over and over...that shyt is still TRULY A GOAT VERSE


We ain't trippin we'll swap it out

 

[987654321]

Was dropping my brother off at college, and he put a burned CD in. We ran this shyt back most of the ride lol.