Jay "Jeezy" Jenkins

But it's just like, you know, some people are like, you know, I got hundreds of thousands of dollars.

I'm going to, you know, invest it in this.

And I'm like, yeah, but, you know, if you got $250,000, let's go.

That's right.

What's the difference?

Like, it's all the same.

I mean, you know, producers, studio time, marketing, videos.

um well the biggest thing was the snowman marketing which is my alias snowman and um because the only competition i got is frosty we're gonna get into that um but um i branded myself uh with snowman and making all these t-shirts where i gave away these snowman t-shirts to promote my album that was hundreds of thousand dollars because a lot of t-shirts however these same t-shirts

And CNN, well, the high schools and middle schools banned the t-shirts and CNN made a report about it.

Yeah, it was a big deal.

Yeah.

No, well, the snowman was on the t-shirt.

My emblem of it.

But they were saying what it represented.

And they thought it represented like drug dealing, street stuff and all that.

Best press I ever got.

Well, the other best press I ever got was when I was coming around, I was doing my work, and I actually made this song on my third album called My President is Black.

And it blew up right around the time Obama was running for president.

And I did all these campaigns where I was renting all these buses and bringing all these people in for the neighborhood to vote.

And I did it with the radio station and had lawyers go into the neighborhoods and talk to people that was convicted, fellas, and tell them they could still vote.