Jeezy opens up on having no regrets, from the pressure of Atlanta streets to culture icon, musical evolution, betting on himself, arrest turning point, depression, co-parenting, Jay-Z bond & new Vegas residency
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🗓️ 24 March 2026
⏱️ 69 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Jay GZ Jenkins. I mean, this dude invented corporate thugging. His 2005 debut solo album Thug Motivation |
| 0:07.4 | 101 became an anthem for all hustlers. But the conversation today isn't just about that start, |
| 0:13.4 | but how far he's come. He's already chronicled his bouts with depression in his New York Times best-selling |
| 0:18.7 | book, Adversity for Sale. But today with the pivot, he dives even deeper into those struggles. He's in a better place now. He's healthier. He's whole. But he still remembers the trials it took to get him here. He goes back to the decision to leave the streets, why it was both the most frightening and best thing he's done. He lost his voice right out of the |
| 0:38.6 | gate. I mean, he was performing in Jacksonville right in front of Freddie Teak. Work with Justin Bieber's |
| 0:43.7 | voice coach. I mean, if you don't believe me, just ask the UPS man. GZ and Chan go back and forth |
| 0:49.6 | about strip club money totals. Let's just say one guy had two stacks and the other guy had two garbage |
| 0:55.9 | bags full of money. Yeah, it's the king of the ad libs, but he had the ad lib in life. He talked |
| 1:02.0 | cutting friends off his last arrest, what he's learned from his past relationships, and why he and |
| 1:08.1 | Jay-Z will always have one another's back. He's in the best place he's ever been, |
| 1:12.7 | and he's headed into his Legend of the Snowman residency in Las Vegas. |
| 1:16.7 | We're happy the storm blew the snowman through the pivot. |
| 1:20.0 | So relax and enjoy as we kick off our conversation with Chan's uncle. |
| 1:25.4 | Yeah, the one and only, GZ. |
| 1:27.2 | Hold out. Limitless, niggas of me guy pinning it. with Chan's uncle. Yeah, the one and only, Gizi. Trust, trust, Limonis, Nick's some of the guy pinning it I fought to hear to witness it |
| 1:45.5 | Gainesville. |
| 1:48.8 | Let him dare, I don't know. |
| 1:50.6 | My boy, man, pleasure, legend. |
| 1:52.8 | Pleasure, brother. |
| 1:53.8 | Yes, sir, yes, sir. |
| 1:55.0 | Already. |
| 1:55.8 | Chans said he brought you to Gainesville with him. |
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