Jeezy is #1 on the Charts

Young Jeezy's new album "The Recession" dropped this week and will cruise easily to the #1 spot on the Billboard Top 200 Albums Charts next week. Early sales figures put first week sales at 250,000 units! Half way to gold in one week, not too bad at all! Have you bought the record yet? Well, if so, my work is the very first thing you hear on the album. Track #1 The Recession Intro was completely created by me. Its basically a series of TV Newscasts talking about the current economy and the looming recession. Well, they would be TV Newscasters if they weren't hired and scripted by me. Its not easy at all to get authentic voices for these things, so i did what any smart guy would do and enlisted 4 voiceover pro's. The hard part was really getting all of their very well recorded voices to then sound like they were coming out of a series of TV sets in different living rooms across the nation. Hopefully i pulled it off well.

This album will be the 25th #1 Album of my career! Only 16 years into making major label records and I'm already a quarter of the way to my goal :-) The scarey thing is there are guys out there who probably have worked on 100 #1 albums. Just give me some more time. This is the 3rd one for me THIS YEAR, so its been quite a successful year so far. And there's more great releases to come!

-Ken Lewis