I love the streets, and the streets love me back. And when things ain’t going the way they should go, they let you know… and when they happy, you gotta keep ’em happy.
JEEZYI always try to go back and check my old stuff. It’s like watching the tapes of the game. You want to go back and go as hard as before.
More Jeezy Quotes
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I guess now music is so saturated and so microwaved. It’s, like, 15 minutes in the microwave and boom, you’ve got something. Nobody’s putting passion or any thought behind it anymore.
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My fans are my family, because they understand me and I understand them.
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I ain’t never been the type of person out at the movies and holding hands and riding around listening to R. Kelly.
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I don’t just do music for the clubs, I do music for the struggle. I do music for everyday niggas, the kids who ain’t got no sense of direction. I’m trying to restore some of the morals back into the game, as far as the street.
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It wasn’t necessary to speak on the recession, you know what I mean, but I just though it made a lot of sense. I was like, “okay, cool,” I’m going to go with this approach for the name of the album [ The Recession].
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A lot of people question how talented I am. But I’m a real dude and I know real things and I’ve seen real people get their head blown off.
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I don’t know how to be a rapper. I just know how to be me.
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I’ve pretty much done records with everybody.
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I’m a motivational speaker.
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I never wanted to be a statistic. I never wanted to be that cat who tried and never made it.
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Real recognize real, I suppose.
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All my music is inspirational. You just gotta listen to the words and get what you can get out of it.
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I always try to go back and check my old stuff. It’s like watching the tapes of the game. You want to go back and go as hard as before.
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The world is yours and everything in it, it’s out there- get on your grind and get it.
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Music is how you feel. But if I can say one word, I’ll say ‘necessary.’ I felt it was necessary.
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You’ve got to be happy with yourself. You can’t sell yourself if you’re out here and you ain’t good. Because you’re giving people messages, and if your message is wrong, then it’s like the blind leading the blind.
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Politics isn’t only about government. Politics is about the people.
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A lot of things come with fame, whether it’s losing friends or losing family.
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It’s not the average people that come to my show.
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With rap, it’s a funny thing. You can say things, and people can take ’em the way they wanna take ’em.
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I don’t think nobody should compare me to anyone, ’cause, at the end of the day, you’ve got a ‘Pac, you’ve got Snoop, you got Tip, you got Wayne – there’s only one Jeezy, man. Ain’t nobody walked in these shoes but me.
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It definitely changed the game. I happen to be in the game around [the time] when the internet kicked in.
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All my albums always go with the times.
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A lot of things come with fame, whether it’s losing friends or losing family. You still gotta stand up and be that guy even when you ain’t having great things. Because you’ve gotta be the spokesperson for your people.
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To be honest, I think about the clubs when I write. But I should probably start thinking about stadiums, because the songs sound even better there – and bigger.
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Honestly, I’m on the road so much that I never really get a chance to go to baseball games.
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