Jay "Jeezy" Jenkins
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Podcast Appearances
You're fearless.
Like you're fearless.
Fearless, yeah.
You already, because in my mind back then, I was ready to die for it.
I was like Malcolm X, like, whatever, let's do it.
But as you begin to get knowledge, you're like, well, I don't have to think about it like that, but let me just work on myself so that I can be the best version of myself.
So now I have emotional intelligence.
I don't get upset about things because me getting upset about things could shift everything because everybody's going to move with my energy.
And back then, my energy was like really in the streets.
So I can turn half of the world against half of the world.
Imagine that.
Like I can literally do that.
You know what I'm saying?
Just because I got up and said, you know what?
I don't like that person or that.
And wherever I put that energy at, you're talking about a whole coast of people that's going to align with that because they align with me.
And once I started to understand, I'm like, okay, well, how can I use this for, you know, for good, right?
But that's not a popular decision.
So I had to fight through that because now people are looking at you like, well, how you lead us to this point?
But then you want to switch up and do something that's positive.