Marc Hogan is ostensibly right in his description of the Jeezy catalog, but there is a scale-tipping gorilla in that review. The last time Jeezy got on a horn-blasting Don Cannon production, it was “Go Crazy,” a beat so good it coaxed a then recently retired Jay to dig for a verse he hadn’t run through the mental paper shredder for the remix. It was, in other words, a bona-fide monster. Yes, since then Young has leaned more towards Toomp’s synths than Curtis Mayfield samples, but “Go Crazy” remains a standout track on what is still one of the decade’s best rap albums. I always heard “Circulate” as a sequel to “Go Crazy.” It might not hit the ecstatic heights of the original, but it’s odd to take aim at it without at least mentioning its forbearer.
