Jay "Jeezy" Jenkins

I got to figure out how to pivot out of this.

And around that time is when the cash monies and the no limits and all this stuff was taking off.

And I was like, well, maybe I could do that.

So I immediately went out and bought studio equipment, went and started signing people in the neighborhood and tried to put them, you know, in position to be rap superstars.

I wanted to be the CEO.

That was my thing.

I wanted to be the baby or the slim of the

of my thing and what I learned quickly, I spent lots of money for a young age.

I spent millions of dollars to try to put people on, of my money.

Yeah, of my own money and it didn't work out.

Then I was broke because some of my artists went to prison, some of them got locked up for murder cases and so on and so forth.

And I'm sitting in this studio because I really don't got nowhere to stay at this point because I put all my money into this.

So this nice apartment I had and these nice cars I had, they're all gone now because I'm trying to stay afloat.

And my man looks at me, he goes, man, you might as well do it.

Like, it's your life.

You're out here living this stuff.

And I was just like, you know what?

And I just started on this mission of doing it.

I just started to get in and start making music from the ground up.

Of course, it took like 10 years and I had to kind of get myself readjusted and just, and I had to hustle even harder because now I'm supporting my own career.