Jay "Jeezy" Jenkins

I'm a sponge.

I just have to get it.

It fulfills me.

I used to listen to music, but I almost immediately understood that I was learning because I would get into situations and be like, hold on, what did Tupac say?

Okay.

and i would apply it and it was working and i was learning that a lot of people that were around they were kind of stuck you know just on the on the on the hamster wheel of just what was going on but they wasn't thinking outside the box because they were just hearing the music and not visualizing what came with it i was like oh you can

You know, and that's how I was applying it to my day.

So music was very important to me.

And when I was doing what I was doing, hustling, I just, you know, I saw a lot of things happen to a lot of good people and I was just like, okay, I can't get stuck in this because I see that there's really no win in it.

And the thing that I was able to do was I was able to use my street smarts and just my Savoir Faire to convince older people that I knew these other people that I can go get them something too and we can work this out.

So that was like my MO.

I would be around all the older guys and I would get their money.

and be like, give me two, three days, I'll be back.

I'm going out of town.

But literally, I already had what they was looking for.

I just went over to my grandmother's house and watched TV and played video games.

And that was my MO.

So I built up a level of trust.

And all this by listening to music, because I was learning through the codes.

So as it went on and I started to get into these situations where they were life or death and freedom of jail, and I was just like, OK, this is not going to work.