Jay "Jeezy" Jenkins

Thank you for having me.

It is good.

Yeah, it's good.

Let's do it.

Well, growing up, there was an era where a New Orleans rap syndicate, it was called Cash Money.

was taking over the world and it was like where little wayne came from and all these guys and they had these nicknames like bg and jizzle and all that stuff and around that time i was becoming a hot boy because i was actually like hustling and getting my first entrepreneur job on and the people in my neighborhood used to call me jeezy because of my voice like my name is jay right they call me jeezy because that was like my hood slang name and

And it just kind of fit when I started to do music because it's just like, well, what do they call you?

I'm like Jeezy.

And at the time, people were putting Young on their rap names.

So I put Young Jeezy together, and that's how I came up with Young Jeezy.

Entrepreneurial?

I think I had one job before where I actually worked with my uncle.

I had a job at McDonald's for like five hours.

They put me on the fries and I was out of there.

Yeah, no, I'm serious.

Maybe about 14, 15.

I mean, it just because I understood right then and there I couldn't work for anyone.

That wasn't who I was.

And no disrespect to nobody that does.

I just understood what I was trying to do.