I won't tell you that it's gonna be okay.

I won't tell you that it's gonna be okay.

Welcome to another episode of the Bakari Sellers podcast. Today we got a living legend.

He belongs on the Mount Rushmore of Atlanta hip-hop him Luda zip Andre 3,000 a few others

Greatest mix of all time. I know I know Wayne got a whole run but the greatest mixtape of all time we all know thug motivation is that but welcome to the show none other than young jeezy how you feeling man

Come I receive all that brother, you know just you know moving and groove and baby

ain't doing no complaining man I got to go back I was a junior senior at

more house college and we listen to thug motivation on rotation. Talk to me about that process,

because I got some questions for you,

but how did you, what,

how did you put together that mixtape though?

Before we get to the book, how did that happen?

So Trapper Dodd was the mixtape.

Oh, Trap or Die, yeah.

Yeah, Trap or Die was a mixtape

and then Thug Motivation game right after that.

Oh, man, like putting together trap or die was almost like racing to, I'm trying to put in, like's like you was almost running out of time because of everything

that was going on around me and it was like I just had to get that take the

trouble different man.

It was, I mean, it's a legendary, it's a legendary piece of work and it's a mixed tape.

Yeah, and but what it was, I wonder about it as an album, but again, there was so many things that was happening around me. It was almost like I was in a race for time just trying to get the body of work done because my my thought process was if I go to jail or something else happen at least I'll have this which was

strap to die and that's the reason why it was so which was

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