“My President,” featuring Tha Bizness’ brassy production and an excellent showing from Nas, was the anthem that captured the started-from-the-bottom catharsis that made Obama’s election so inspiring. America has pilfered blackness since its inception, and yet we got to see Barack Obama be inaugurated as president on January 20, 2009.Īlthough 2008’s The Recession didn’t match Thug Motivation‘s impact, the album did contain Jeezy’s most salient song. Jeezy’s 2005 classic Let’s Get It: Thug Motivation 101 is part-manifesto, part-biography. The intro features a powerful combination of the two: “You ain’t never seen them pies / I’m talking so much white, it’ll hurt ya eyes / I really lived it man.” This is a man who was trapping himself blind but still had the temerity to tell us “You gotta believe.” Thug motivation is a world away from political aspirations, but the core maxim is the same: You gotta believe this shit, man.
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