Young Jeezy - You Can't Ban the Snowman (CD)

All Music Guide

Hooking up for his third mixtape with DJ Drama, Young Jeezy unleashes a set of freestyles, collaborations, and unreleased tracks on the hard and raw You Can't Ban the Snowman. Beats from the RocaFella and GUnit camps are lifted for backing tracks, the latter's work for Mobb Deep's "Have a Party" being used for "Gangsta Party" which is the fierce, overthetop highlight. Contrasting all the rawness is the cool "Say I," a Christina Milian track that ended up on her album So Amazin'. What makes the BCD release of this mixtape so interesting is that their reissue takes this underground release above ground and there are no "thank you"s or "courtesy of"s in the liner notes for Milian's Island label, GUnit's Interscope, or any of the other megacorps that own other tracks. Whether or not this release is approved or flying under the radar, BCD's reissue of You Can't Ban the Snowman brings the ramshackle, urgent, and entirely street mixtape experience to those who don't usually get a taste. - Dav...id Jeffries, All Music Guide Read more Less