As the 10th anniversary of Jeezy's Let's Get It: Thug Motivation 101 approaches, the Atlanta rapper recently announced that he plans to celebrate the occasion with a special one night only concert.
The concert will take place on July 25 in Atlanta at the legendary Fox Theatre. Jeezy will perform the album in its entirety for the first time with a slew of surprise special guests.
Tickets for the anniversary concert will go on sale on Friday, June 12 and can be purchased at www.foxatltix.com and the Fox Theatre box office.
Thug Motivation 101 served as Jeezy's major label debut and spawned hit singles including "And Then What," "Soul Survivor," "Go Crazy" and "My Hood."
Upon its initial release, Pitchfork gave the album a 7.7 rating.
Young Jeezy's proper debut has been a long time coming, though it's been a treat hearing his weathered, weezy rasp on mixtapes (most notably DJ Drama's Trap or Die). He is a conduit between the South, where most of today's commercially lucrative hip-hop originates, and a lagging East Coast scene. Let's Get It is not the best rap album of the year and Jeezy is hardly the world's greatest lyricist. But he slings a sometimes-creepy, sometimes-clever, sometimes-chaotic charisma and he rides that magnetism to a mostly brilliant solo entrance to the bigs.
The album entered the Billboard 200 at No. 2 in its first week of release and later became certified platinum.
In 2014, Jeezy released his fifth solo album Seen It All, which also landed at No. 2 on the Billboard 200. The album featured the soulful title track featuring Jay Z.
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