Jeezy was not a star since he came out. That came later. Dude wasn't even Jeezy when he came out.
Yes, there's blatant attempts at crossover and there's songs that crossover without being blatant. I just addressed that in a previous post in this thread. Throwing Akon on a song at the height of his popularity is a blatant crossover attempt. Kon was not only on the song, he produced it.
You love making up garbage to support your narrative:
TM101 dropped July 26, 2005. "Soul Survivor" dropped July 16, 2005. The video dropped shortly after. The album was certified platinum September 25, 2005. How was he platinum before the album even dropped?
T.I. didn't start pandering until Paper Trail.
So you agree that Jeezy isn't the one that broke trap through. It is a wave he jumoed on after T.I. broke it through yet T.I. wanted to be Jeezy according to you
You clearly stated T.I. wanted to be Jeezy as opposed to him wanting the spot that Jeezy occupied. T.I. was already in that position before Jeezy dropped.
@ the bolded: I already broke my statement down thoroughly, 3 times over. if you still don't understand, then that's on you.
and TIP been pandering his whole career breh. "paper trail" was when he started going overboard.
when someone says "since he came out", theyre referring to when he came out nationally. not when he was underground.
the akon thing is just speculation on your part. how do you know that he just didn't want to do a song with akon? cuz the song isn't commercially driven at all. its a song about hustling, with a guy who during the previous year, blew up making a song about prison.
yea, I know when the release date was for the "soul survivor". but a lot of times, the official release of singles, are long before they really hit radio. its kinda weird.
as for soul survivor, I may be wrong, but I thought that was more of a fall season single.
