Jay "Jeezy" Jenkins

So to speak.

I don't even think he probably had a tax ID, but that's how he was getting paid in cash.

And that was like my first thing.

And then coming up, the first entrepreneurs I really knew were musicians and then the local hustlers in my neighborhood.

So hustling was like a, it was like a family thing, meaning like it just, the environment I was in, it was natural to hustle.

And so I kind of got into that early on, like my auntie's hustle, my uncle's hustle, like it was just like a thing.

And I just got into it and I was good at it.

So once I picked that up, I was off to the entrepreneurial race.

Like I just understood like, okay, this is the way.

I'm not going to stick with it, but I just need to use this to get to the next place, which was music.

But I was hustling pretty much all my teenage years.

Yeah.

Yeah, but I mean, it was like a thing.

You're growing up in this small town.

You know all the police people.

They know your aunties, your uncles.

So you're a good kid, but they just know that you're hustling.

So you're not out here causing any trouble.

So I kind of hustled on my auntie's front porch.

So that's where the song came from.