He attempts to reconcile his own success with his country’s history on “Modern Day,” rapping, “All these chains on, feel like a modern-day slave,” but takes a second to address anyone second-guessing his street cred on “Back” (featuring Yo Gotti), clarifying, “They say I left the hood, but I got it on my back.” Jeezy sounds like he’s having a lot of fun on songs like “The Glory,” the E-40 collaboration “Da Ghetto,” and “My Reputation,” which features the eyebrow-raising tandem of Demi Lovato and Lil Duval. He’s fired up out of the gate, using album opener “Oh Lord” to shout out murder victims George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery, and Atlanta rapper Lil Marlo, before describing the social climate in America as “racism, no chaser” and calling out President Trump by name. Twelve years and seven albums later, Jeezy follows up his TM104: The Legend of the Snowman with The Recession 2, the MC emerging as the trap’s biggest sociopolitical advocate once again. I've only listened to one other record by them and they actually have. This was the first Chem Bros record I heard, and it came out back in 1997. Young Jeezy’s third album, The Recession, is an exorcism, a confessional, a forebodement.Anything but a celebration. Last week they announced they'll be putting out another album sometime in 2010. Someone who gets the Deluxe Edition get back to me.
Maybe the Deluxe Edition is better with 5 more songs. The first 5 songs jam and so does the track with BoosieBadazz. In the midst of the Great Recession of 2008, Jeezy-then still billed as Young Jeezy-released The Recession, an album overflowing with anthems of resilience like “Put On,” “Who Dat,” and the miraculously prescient “My President.” As the Atlanta MC's third studio album, The Recession broke from the Thug Motivation naming convention of his first two, making it clear that there was more at stake. It's techno Monday here at the B Side, and today features The Chemical Brothers. Its no way as good as Thug Motivation 101 but not as bad Thug Motivation 103.