Jeezy's last album nearly sold 700,000 and had one top 40 hit iirc. It was a trademark Def Jam/modern hip hop album: bloated guest list, expensive videos. I can understand why Def Jam isn't going to open the check book for another, especially given the diminishing returns effect that dominates hip hop. IE a rapper almost never comes close to out-doing his biggest recent record anymore, unless he's Jay-Z or Eminem. Even Drake looks like he won't outdo Thank Me Later. Most recently we saw this with 2 Chainz bombing, and next year we'll see it when Kendrick struggles to go gold.
The most interesting thing about this is that Jeezy got his last album release date around the time Ross was getting his project (GFID) pushed back due to multiple singles bombing. At the time I remember people here and on SOHH/The Coli/Twitter/etc saying Jeezy won. Now the tables are reversed: Ross is popping due to guest verse shine, Jeezy is nowhere to be seen.
