★★★★★
Young Jeezy's stock in Hip-Hop right now is divided, depending on who you ask. Some will say that he's fallen off, and that he's yet to release another project as compelling as The Recession to reinstate his relevance. Others will say that everything he does has a gold touch as far as album releases and mixtape drops, and would point to TM:103 as proof of that. In all honesty, even as Snowman's impact on Hip-Hop cannot be disputed, the reality's somewhere in the middle...
- allhiphop.com
2013-04-01
★★★★★
It is perhaps both compliment and condemnation to say I can hearYoung Jeezy's voice in my head just from reading the song titles of"Its Tha World." In fact I nearly had the chorus of "Damn Liar"figured out in my head before playing the song, other than that Igave Young Jeezy too much credit - I figured he'd throw in a "I'mhotter than fire/Say you like me, youse a God damn liar" somewhere.Jeezy chose to keep it extra simple though and only rhyme "liar"with "liar...
- rapreviews.com
2013-02-12
★★★★★
The latest in a long line of Young Jeezy mixtapes opens with the veteran MC feeling "sick and tired of the bullshit" being perpetrated by fake rappers and fake gangsters, wearily shaking his head at all the world's fuckery. It's a familiar scene to anyone who's at least tangentially familiar with Jeezy's dense discography...
- pitchfork.com
2013-04-01
★★★★★
Young Jeezy's previous album, The Recession,further burnished the rapper's populist credence by showing that he had an intuitive understanding that people were feeling downtrodden, even if official economists hadn't yet diagnosed it as such. On songs like "Circulate" and "Crazy World," Young Jeezy added anxiety and paranoia to his triumphant trap rap, and the results were timely and affecting...
- www.prefixmag.com
2012-01-12
★★★★★
After two albums of fierce, single-minded coke-rap, Young Jeezy displayed unexpected range on 2008's The Recession, a big-picture album that showed he could rap as provocatively about national anxieties as his days on the corner. That album marked an exciting new direction for the rapper, but it now looks like a one-off detour, judging from its follow-up, TM 103: Hustlerz Ambition, a stale return to the trap...
- www.avclub.com
2012-01-05
★★★★★
Once upon a time, Young Jeezy was invincible, a superhero. He grew famous peddling an overblown, over-simplified cartoon of machismo and violence, pumped full of dubious sociopolitical implications and adrenaline. His first three albums were some of the last decade's finest action flicks...
- pitchfork.com
2012-01-05
★★★★★
The past three years have been a curious period in Young Jeezy's career, a glaring example of the label drama hip-hop artists are forced to endure on par with Lupe Fiasco's Lasers. Although in Jeezy's case the answer wasn't so simple as he didn't want to make pop music--after all, as a pioneer of the now-ubiquitous trap rap scene, Jeezy was always an artist that made big time singles like "And Then What" and "Crazy World" entirely on his own terms...
- www.popmatters.com
2012-01-05
★★★★★
Anyone familiar with any of Atlanta trap-rap icon Young Jeezys prior Def Jam albums, starting with 2005s Lets Get It: Thug Motivation 101, knows how this goes: The lyrics are largely ballsy statements about how "the Snowman" once shifted copious quantities of white powder on the streets, and now enjoys a luxurious lifestyle as a result...
- www.spin.com
2011-12-29
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