Top 77 Quotes & Sayings by Young Jeezy
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Last updated on December 22, 2024.
When you a ghetto star, when you a hood star, you gonna take care of your grandmother, your mother. When you on that next level, you gotta take care of the city, the streets.
It's not the average people that come to my show.
Anybody that's got a problem with me is probably envious or wants to be me, and that's how I've always looked at it.
In my heart, I'm 100% real. You can't pull out nothing in my past that can say I'm not 100% real.
Everyday, all day I have to be productive. And when I ain't productive, I get concerned.
I love the streets, and the streets love me back. And when things ain't going the way they should go, they let you know... and when they happy, you gotta keep 'em happy.
My hustle is nonstop. I never stop hustling.
To be honest, I think about the clubs when I write. But I should probably start thinking about stadiums, because the songs sound even better there - and bigger.
I guess now music is so saturated and so microwaved. It's, like, 15 minutes in the microwave and boom, you've got something. Nobody's putting passion or any thought behind it anymore.
Music is how you feel.
In middle school, I had an '87 Regal. That was unheard of.
Music is all about leadership and there ain't really a lot of leaders.
I created my lane. No one can ever run my lane because it's mine. I'm the Michael Jackson of my lane. And you know, nobody was as great as Michael. I love Prince, but he's not Michael.
I don't really feel McCain. It ain't just because Barack is black; he can make change. Just like Bush equals recession, Barack equals progression.
John McCain... looks like a fraud to me.
I could sit right here and have a 15-minute conversation with somebody and change their whole life.
I've got to pay $5 for gas just like everybody else.
With rap, it's a funny thing. You can say things, and people can take 'em the way they wanna take 'em.
Anything that looks good makes you feel better.
When you're trying to bring the streets into rap to prove a point, then you already lost. You separate the two, and that ain't to be played with. You've got people that lost their lives and people that are doing real time. If we gon' make music, let's just make music.
All my music is inspirational. You just gotta listen to the words and get what you can get out of it.
I just think a hustler's ambition is that I never stop. I start off hustling and said I'll never stop hustling. An ambitious hustler is the one to hustle the hustlers. When I grew up, my heroes were hustlers. Now I'm their hero.
As long as I'm not selling out the people that ride or die with me, I'm glad I'm not an MC. I'm a motivational speaker. I'm not that rapper dude.
I'ma continue to make records, continue to make hits, continue to be what I am, legendary.
People who work every day are kind of scared of things they don't understand.
I don't think nobody should compare me to anyone, 'cause, at the end of the day, you've got a 'Pac, you've got Snoop, you got Tip, you got Wayne - there's only one Jeezy, man. Ain't nobody walked in these shoes but me.
I don't know how to be a rapper. I just know how to be me.
I never wanted to be a statistic. I never wanted to be that cat who tried and never made it.
A lot of things come with fame, whether it's losing friends or losing family.
I'm a motivational speaker.
You seen my shows; I bring the 'hood out.
I feel like I'm married to what I do, to the streets. And I feel like when the streets are mad, it's serious.
I think I got a lot of life skills; I got a lot of wisdom; I've seen a lot of bad things happen to a lot of good people.
I, and others like me - trap stars - we always considered ourselves Robin Hoods: we go out and get the money. Just think, if you was in the village and you a hunter, you take pride in going out to hunt the prey and bring it back for the village to eat. In our situation, we took pride in getting money so that the hood could eat.
I represent the Democratic party... I've never been nor do I ever plan to be a John McCain supporter. I support Barack Obama.
I never ever paid attention to any election.
Sam Jackson is like the Jeezy of Hollywood: He's for his people.
Politics isn't only about government. Politics is about the people.
When money was plentiful, I was the first one who told you to stack it. Live your life with it. Now that money slowed up, I'ma be the one telling you to save it like they ain't gon' make it no more.
You gotta have life your way. If you ain't losing your mind, you ain't partying right.
My fans are my family, because they understand me and I understand them.
This rap game is just WWF; everybody wants points off somebody else.
Honestly, I'm on the road so much that I never really get a chance to go to baseball games.
I think everybody knows my sound because I'm me, you know? But, on your fourth album, I think you've definitely gotta show growth because I definitely don't plan on being one of those cats that fade off. It's always about growing with me; I grew up over the years.
Think you figured it out, but you don't have a clue.
Think you on top of the world, but the world on top of you.
Sexy, no alcoholic, but she drink like a toilet. Told her do me a favor and put your mouth on this faucet.
You've got to be happy with yourself. You can't sell yourself if you're out here and you ain't good. Because you're giving people messages, and if your message is wrong, then it's like the blind leading the blind.
I used to hit the kitchen lights, cockroaches everywhere.
Hit the kitchen lights, now it's marble floors everywhere.
Let's say your past is your present and your present is your cash, So I look forward to the future.
A lot of things come with fame, whether it's losing friends or losing family. You still gotta stand up and be that guy even when you ain't having great things. Because you've gotta be the spokesperson for your people.
Real recognize real, I suppose.
If I'm gonna put a message out there, I want to make sure I stay consistent. I'm up on my game, because I said it. People take your words and they live by them.
I ain't a rapper; I'm a motivational speaker. I don't do shows; I do seminars. I really talk to people.
Love don't love nobody got me feeling like, I shouldn't love myself
Anybody that I ever dealt with knows that I'm a very focused individual, and when it comes to my work and what I do, you might have to play the back burner to that.
My music is more like ghetto gospel; there's a message in my words, so people listen. Sometimes you might here different things; it depends on how you feel. You might feel down, and I might be the cat in the same sentence saying, "You need to get up and do your thing." And then I could be the same cat, when you at the top of your game, telling you, "It feel good, don't it?" but with the same words.
Open your eyes, I'm a BLESSING in disguise
The world is yours and everything in it, it's out there- get on your grind and get it.
Sometimes when people get success they forget about the people that pointed them there or championed them into this position. I pride myself on really understanding. I wouldn't even call it keeping it real. I just call it keeping it me. When they tell me, "You're doing what you're supposed to do," it makes me go ten times even harder, because I know that there are people on the sidelines and they're watching me. They're cheering for me. I want to be the best me I could possibly be when it comes to them.
Every time I'm out and somebody tells me they love what I do, that's what I do it for. That's like my vice. That's like my high. When people understand that this is who I really am, and to be appreciated for your craft .
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