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so.......he thinks he's jay now?
i mean
his name is literally jay
but he ain't jay-z
i mean
his name is literally jay
but he ain't jay-z
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It’s an all-white affair at the Metropolitan Business and Arts District in southwest Atlanta. The industrial loft complex is the locale for XXL’s 13th-anniversary cover shoot with ATL’s own Young Jeezy, and it’s his third anniversary cover in a row. On this sweltering mid-June afternoon, Da Snowman is playing it extra-cool between takes, making sure not to ruffle his all-white attire while chopping it up with old friend and master boardsman Shawty Redd. With Jeezy’s aptly titled Shawty Redd–produced hit single “All White Everything” blaring (on repeat) throughout the large loft space turned photo studio, the moment might seem a little premeditated. But Jeez is hardly putting it on for the cameras today.
With his long-delayed fourth album, Thug Motivation 103, set for release at the end of this summer, 32-year-old Jay Jenkins is focused on a project he considers well worth its long wait. He’s not paying any attention to negative chatter about the LP’s late arrival, yearlong pushback or the tepid response to the Trap or Die Pt. 2 mixtape, which he released this past May. He’s ignoring the whispers that he’s no longer one of the brightest stars in Atlanta’s rap constellation. And he’s on a vegetarian diet—no beef, or talk of beef, with anyone, including his longtime rival and fellow A-Town rap star Gucci Mane (who just happens to be doing his own photo shoot at the same time, about 200 yards away, in the same row of warehouses).
Today, nothing is as important to Jeezy as the great expectations he has for TM103. Where his previous LP, 2008’s The Recession, offered biting social commentary,TM103 has Da Snowman going back to his roots, back to the trap, back to the feel of his first album, 2005’s Let’s Get It: Thug Motivation 101.
As day turns to night, the scene moves to ATL’s legendary Stankonia Studios, where OutKast have recorded some of the their most revered work. Jeezy wants to celebrate the five-year anniversary of TM101 and the revival feel on the TM103. He’s confident that his brand of trap music has permanently impacted hip-hop and made him one of the last authentic street dudes in rap. While more and more artists are achieving success with fabricated street lives, Jeezy makes his case for why much of it is not believable and explains why he’s not much of a fan of rap these days. More importantly, he’s adamant that TM103, which was reshaped during months of one-on-one sessions at Shawty Redd’s home studio, will quiet all the talk of Jeezy’s demise. Let’s get it.
Is this going to be the album that separates you from the pack? That authenticates your brand even further and stops the comparisons to the other rappers that do what you do?
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. My level of intelligence and know-how, and being able to adapt, and being able to live, and being able to walk, and still be the same person that I was from day one— that shit ain’t somethin’ that’s just given to you, man. So, at the end of the day, I’m not worried by far, because I wouldn’t even be here right now if it wasn’t for me being and thinking the way that I am. So with that being said, you can’t compare nothing to that. ’Cause I’ll say it again:
I done been ’round the world, ’round the block. Two things a nigga can’t tell ya is that I ran off on ’em or I owe ’em anything. It’s been me the whole time, bruh. Fuck the music—let’s take that out of the equation. It’s nothing. Let’s talk about life for a minute. Look where I came from. Look where I’m at. What do you compare to that? You let me know, and then I guess we’ll have a comparison.
Let’s compare Let’s Get It: Thug Motivation 101 to Thug Motivation 103. Do you think, five years later, that 103 can make as significant an impact in today’s musical climate as 101 did?
Yeah, well, they just waiting on me to come back and change the game, that’s all. [Laughs] But, you know, OutKast made great music. I listened to 8Ball & MJG album the other day—it was good music. It was good music, man. That was us! Nowadays, everybody makes beats, everybody’s a rapper. But then those were the ghetto poets that we listened to, because they were the ones that saw the struggle, and they come out and they tell the world about it, and people feel it like that. 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. Or even going in, like, really going in and making shit that’s going to matter in two months. ’Cause, you know, everything sounds good when you’re [in the studio]. And I’m not hating at all—I’m just being real. —Rondell Conway
D-Marco;1005959 said:trap or die 2 is ill... so is lose my mind. jeezy still go hard
numbaz...80's baby;1006025 said:he prolly want to say sum slick shit but he not because he know ross is what's hot right now. He talked ALOTTA shit about Gucci when he wasn't hot,underground, and not relavent outside of atlanta. But when Gucci started buzzin and catchin his shine, jeezy stopped talkin shit afta that "kobe lebron" song and squashed it cuz he knew it would fuck his fanbase. He still don't give a fuck about Gucci, he just know it wouldn't be in his best interest to continue to beef w/ niggaz. Same situation w/ Ross, he aint scared of him he just don't want to fuck up his money dealing w/ ross.
;1006212 said:Rick ross hopped in Jeezys lane and str8 mario kart'd that nigga..hope jeezy can come back wit a dope album
jrod44;1006110 said:I still think its coming, and I have a feelin its because of Gucci. Ross and Gucci are always doing shit now. not on some hoe shit but I think jeezy is kind of jealous by it. and not on some hoe shit but jeezy always colloborated with Ross and its been over a year since they done a song, meanwhile I personally seen Ross and Gucci kicking it like 4 or 5 times in Miami and Atl. doing concerts and shit. Dont forget to Ross did a remix to just sayin before it really dropped, I damn near thought it was a Ross song. I dont fault jeezy even though Ross is that dude right now. you probably right though, cant let petty shit get in the way of money.
let me add too that didnt look too good for him by putting bmf with meech and then meech saying he liked the ross bmf.
And yes supreme it is some female shit but this type of shit happens everyday. dudes get jealous, it aint nothing new.
StillDreaming;1006461 said:Ross was on the Just Saying Remix from Trap or Die 2 so I don't think there is any bad blood between the two. I think Jeezy needs to get in the lab and reinvent himself. Trappin ain't wats hot no more. I hope it ain't jealousy because I took Jeezy to be above that feminine shit.
yep, thats why i like to address them directly as if they are reading because i know they are. you might find one of these rappers quoting you are taking the advice you give them and running with it. either way i aint mad.therealist_;1006685 said:Jeezy never drops a bad album .
I'm defiantly checkin for that TM103 .
*side note*
Artist are really letting our opinions get to them huh?
More and more artist are paying attention towards the internet response..