Interview: Brian “B.Dot” Miller
Despite the recent drama, Young Jeezy’s been busy from the top to the bottom of the map. Last month, he dropped the mixtape, Trappin’ Ain’t Dead and announced the title of his fourth album, Thug Motivation 103. In part two of our interview, Da Snowman discusses his latest projects, Kobe, and LeBron.
The reception from your mixtape, Trappin’ Ain’t Dead has been real positive.
A lot cats thought it was an album, but I ain’t even look at it like that. When I do mixtapes, I don’t just do it like it’s just street music, I do it as if I was recording a record, a regular song. It came out good though. I got another tape about to drop with DJ Scream in a few and its called, I’m On My Way and I mean, that’s pretty much where I’m at now. I’m working on the album, Thug Motivation 103. This gotta be the one right here cause I’m going back to my roots. I just feel like it was an intervention thing. Everybody was like you need to do this, you gotta do that if you wanna be big. I was like, “man, I’m big in the hood,” I think that’s good enough. That’s who I’m supposed to be, feel me?
[…] “Can I Speak to You,” produced by DJ Pain 1 and featuring ScHoolboy Q, is the best track on the project. The beat is lush and sample-forward, in a dusky, early-2000s Just Blaze lane. Q, a rising TDE rapper, takes a substantial verse. 50 Cent sounds re-energized. He becomes the trash-talking 50 that was missing from the other songs. The closer imports a younger West Coast voice onto a Queens street album and returns 50 Cent to competitive writing after a run of money and sex records. […]