Martin A. Berrios has a great interview with Young Jeezy in which Young Jeezy discusses the title of his new album, The Recession:

"The Recession to me was letting people know that’s it’s really f***ed up out here. Even though it might seem good tomorrow or six months from now, you can be on your ass. So with that being said and just seeing a lot people in my own communities going through a lot of changes, I just wanted to more so relate to the people. Because music as you know even during a time of war or whatever, people relate through s**t with music."

"But at the same time it’s like the recession is real, it’s like everybody is going to remember this s**t; ten fifteen twenty years down the line like the Great Depression."

Jeezy gets into some really personal stuff about what he’s gone through and certainly seems to understand hard times.

Tactician’s Quote:
"I don’t bring my dice to the chess game."

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