![]() ![]() 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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