You had a couple of albums out prior to the release of TM101 but do you consider this your debut album? Here, the Snowman gets candid about his decade-old LP and the motivation behind it. Still, the grind never ceased for the then 26-year-old, whose coveted hood classic Let’s Get It: Thug Motivation 101 (b.k.a. “I did those songs not knowing if I would be out tomorrow to hear them … I was like, ‘Let me put my blood, sweat and tears, and every emotion I got in this music now because in case happens, at least they can hear from the ghetto, the people and the struggle for what I have to say.” “I went so hard because I was under the impression one day that I would be spending 30 to life in prison,” he says. With visions of incarceration and in need of a platform for his hood tales, Jeezy hit the booth. None of us really had real jobs-we had real ideas.”īeing a veteran rapper diving in dough wasn’t the motivation, though. “It was full of entrepreneurs, hustlers and people determined to make it. “To take you back 10 years, my city was festive,” he explained over the phone days before his highly anticipated 10-year anniversary concert that took place at Atlanta’s Fox Theater on Saturday, July 25. If you ask Jeezy about life in Atlanta a decade ago, the rapper lights up before taking a trip down memory lane.
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