Tickets for the show sold out the same day they went on sale - that’s 4,678 seats. The local crowd has seen Atlanta, rap, and themselves grow tremendously in the decade since Thug Motivation dropped. It’s more likely to attract a local orchestra performance or, say, indie rock heavyweights. The posh Fox Theatre doesn’t plaster many rappers’ names on its marquee. I could be sitting my ass in a box right now. I could have said all that shit and it could have backfired in my face. Now I’m in a better position to say that to people because of how I put that album together and put my life on the line - because it could have went any way. Now instead of me using my voice to just bring down the culture, I really bring it up. “That’s what changed for me because I didn’t give a fuck,” Jeezy said.
He’s hugely gracious for society giving him a mic and he plans to be deliberate about exactly what he spits into it. Jeezy takes his role model status very seriously. Meaning that at the end of the day, it can be all over in a day… That’s the trap.but at the same time, the music isn’t just there for them, it’s for everybody out there trying to figure it out.”Īlthough none of Jeezy’s albums post-TM101 have come near its tremendous success, people are still listening - perhaps more than ever. It’s their place of work but it comes with a lot of responsibility and high regards. They get their brain pulled out or they can make it home to see kids. “They can make some money or they can go to jail. “It’s somebody out there risking everything they got to make a dollar and it can go either way,” Jeezy said. The trap, Jeezy explained, is not tied to a finite physical location. After rehearsal Friday night, but before the charity dinner, Jeezy spoke to The FADER backstage at Atlanta’s lavish Fox Theatre while getting a trim from his Edgewood Ave. That style Jeezy worked his ass off to nail-the 808 beats, menacing lyrics spat like diary entries, focus on the hustle-eventually became what’s widely accepted as the definitive album for trap music. The album acted like a small window into life in the trap, life as Jeezy knew from growing up in Atlanta’s various projects.
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