Now that Michal Phelps has revealed that the true secret of winning eight gold medals was listening to Young Jeezy's "Go Getta" - see the video, with R. Kelly, here - the Atlanta rapper has declared that Phelps is "like the Young Jeezy of the swim world." Jeezy, who's not-so-upbeat-sounding The Recession comes out on Sept. 2, is not all that amphibious himself, though "somebody once threw me in the pool and I had to work it out." The MC, who like you and me, needs a "Vacation," also reveals that he is a devotee of dead-tree media, telling Rolling Stone that when he couldn't follow Phelps' Olympic exploits on the TV, "I just pick it up in the newspaper."
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