The second major label album by Young Jeezy, probably the most love/hate of the lot, moved units, but got the dreaded three-star treatment critically. last year and now sits confined to his house after getting pinched by the Feds this past October. Dipset - the crew who, led by Cam’ron and Juelz Santana, set the whole heads-hating-hipsters movement in motion - have apparently broken up. Trends in music tend to die pretty quickly (just ask the Rapture), but the recession of trap-hop from music’s consciousness has coincided with the fall of some its most vivid faces. It feels weird eulogizing “trap-hop” (or “crack-rap” or whatever you want to call it) only a year or so after its supposed Mona Lisa, but it makes sense. Like it or not, though, it will go down somewhere in history as the culmination of a time in rap where a wide audience (yours included) - pop and indie fans included - fell for MCs who trapped first and rapped second. It wasn’t close to the first album to touch on the subject - nor, to these ears, is it close to the best. The subject matter was, (in)famously, the buying, selling, cooking, and spoils of crack-cocaine. In 2006, Virginia Beach’s the Clipse released Hell Hath No Fury, arguably the most critically acclaimed rap album since Jay-Z’s 2001 masterwork The Blueprint.
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