Young Jeezy Debuts At No. 1 On The Charts, Sells 256K In First Week

Hip-Hop superstar Young Jeezy’s The Recession has debuted at the No. 1 spot on Billboard’s Top 200, leading the pack of this week’s debuts, which also includes discs by Bad Boy Donnie Klang and actor Terrance Howard.

Jeezy has earned the top position on the charts according to the Nielsen’s SoundScan selling over 256,000 albums of his highly anticipated third Def Jam release. Following up his platinum-selling disc The Inspiration, Jeezy took today’s times and decided to approach the album in a more serious tone.

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Young Jeezy To Register To Vote This Week

Jeezy has added a voter awareness to the line-up of events celebrating the release of his third solo album The Recession, which hit stores nationwide Tuesday (September 2).

In addition to a full day of events in his hometown of Atlanta, including an in-store appearance, concert and star-studded release party, it was announced that Jeezy and his CTE label mates and staff will host a voter registration drive today Thursday (September 4).

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Young Jeezy Brings Lil Kim, Fabolous Onstage At NYC Show

New York—Brooklyn was definitely in the building.

Young Jeezy performed at the Blender Theater in Manhattan last night and the out of towner treated the Big Apple crowd to a treat.

Da Snowman welcomed Fabolous (”Breathe”) and Maino (”Hi Hater”) on stage to perform with him. But the capacity crowd really went crazy when Jeezy asked them to put their lighters up and out from backstage came Lil Kim.

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Young Jeezy Organizes ‘Back 2 School’ Event

Atlanta rap star Young Jeezy is personally taking steps to prepare local youth for life in the classroom, with his Back 2 School giveback and bowling event.

The rapper, along with Corporate Thugz Entertainment (CTE), the Boys and Girls Club and V-103 DJ Greg Street, will host the event, which took place yesterday from 2 p.m. to 5 p.m. today (August 2) at Metro Lanes & Games in Atlanta.

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Video: Young Jeezy’s “Put On”

After months of the all the Young Jeezy fans inquiring about the video for “Put On” its finally seeing the light of day.

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Young Jeezy Arrested For DUI

Georgia rapper Young Jeezy was arrested early this morning in Atlanta for driving under the influence and speeding.

According to TMZ, the rapper (real name Jay Jenkins) was stopped for speeding and was arrested on a slew of charges, including DUI, reckless driving, speeding, having no tags or proof of insurance and driving with an open container.

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