There were a lot of songs that I still wanted to put on the album but it worked out. I can only fit 18 [tracks] on the album, I would put 30 if I could.
JEEZYA 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.
More Jeezy Quotes
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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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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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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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Music is all about leadership and there ain’t really a lot of leaders.
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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 could sit right here and have a 15-minute conversation with somebody and change their whole life.
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Anything that looks good makes you feel better.
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Let’s say your past is your present and your present is your cash, So I look forward to the future.
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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.
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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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I just think a hustler’s ambition is that I never stop. I start off hustling and said I’ll never stop hustling. An ambitious hustler is the one to hustle the hustlers. When I grew up, my heroes were hustlers. Now I’m their hero.
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It’s not the average people that come to my show.
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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 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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I’ve pretty much done records with everybody.
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