Young Jeezy

Jeezy is a very solemn rapper. The rest of American hip-hoppers mostly focus on how many bucks they have, what kind of girls they ride in limousines, and how long their trunks are. All this is no stranger to Jeezy - in one of his videos a black model even throws dollars into the camera - but there is also a certain sublimity in his work, which is not characteristic of tough guys from the black ghetto. It is achieved through pompous composer moves that would be quite appropriate in symphonic soundtracks to Star Wars and The Lord of the Rings. However, all the orchestral parts of strings and winds are deliberately recorded on a synthesizer, which gives them some flavor of 90s music. And if you add a broken minimalistic R&B beat to this picture, you get a rather original arrangement.
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