Young jeezy quotes

I can't speak for everybody, but sometimes, people get in this showbiz game and they get the money, but then they forget why they got in the game in the first place. I don't even look at it as fame, I just look at it as me being me, and me going out here everyday and being productive, because I am the product, and I'm selling myself. I'm selling my ambition and my integrity and my adversity, and I'd just like to be that.

Everyday, all day I have to be productive. And when I ain't productive, I get concerned.

My hustle is nonstop. I never stop hustling.

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.

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.

There were a lot of songs that I still wanted to put on the album but it worked out. I can only fit 18 [tracks] on the album, I would put 30 if I could.

I never wanted to be a statistic. I never wanted to be that cat who tried and never made it.

Politics isn't only about government. Politics is about the people.

Let's say your past is your present and your present is your cash, So I look forward to the future.

My fans are my family, because they understand me and I understand them.

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.

Married to the game. If we're dancing with the devil at least teach us how to dance when the son of making dollars.

A lot of people question how talented I am. But I'm a real dude and I know real things and I've seen real people get their head blown off.

I ain't a rapper; I'm a motivational speaker. I don't do shows; I do seminars. I really talk to people.

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.

It definitely changed the game. I happen to be in the game around [the time] when the internet kicked in.

All my music is inspirational. You just gotta listen to the words and get what you can get out of it.

In middle school, I had an '87 Regal. That was unheard of.

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.

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.

I used to hit the kitchen lights, cockroaches everywhere. Hit the kitchen lights, now it's marble floors everywhere.

I'm a motivational speaker.

I could sit right here and have a 15-minute conversation with somebody and change their whole life.

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 represent the Democratic party... I've never been nor do I ever plan to be a John McCain supporter. I support Barack Obama.

Real recognize real, I suppose.

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.

I felt it was necessary. I never ever paid attention to any election. Not really [into] politics or anything like that. It never benefited us. This time around, it's not a black-or-white thing — you got somebody in there for us that's well-spoken and gonna handle their business. I just wanted to do my part and let them know we need change, we need help, it's rough out there.

I ain't never been the type of person out at the movies and holding hands and riding around listening to R. Kelly.

The world is yours and everything in it, it's out there- get on your grind and get it.

That's why I like to read a lot. That's why I try to keep up on current events, what's going on in the world with the elections and the politicians and business people, because I feel like it's my duty to spread that. I feel like it's my duty to speak on that even if I'm never asked, because I'm representing the people. I don't want to be in a position where I have no knowledge.

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.

On the real though, just being so young, then coming out of the hood and making it is just crazy to see. Just picking up a microphone and coming from the block, then being able to go around the world and really staying yourself and staying true to who you are.

You seen my shows; I bring the 'hood out.

All my albums always go with the times.

When I hear people tell me they love what I do, no matter what the climate is, it makes me want to go harder, because that's what I'm out here fighting for - to get that love. You just want to be appreciated for being you and being the best you.

Open your eyes, I'm a BLESSING in disguise

With rap, it's a funny thing. You can say things, and people can take 'em the way they wanna take 'em.

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.

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 .

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.

It's not the average people that come to my show.

A lot of things come with fame, whether it's losing friends or losing family.

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.

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.

I've pretty much done records with everybody.

Music is all about leadership and there ain't really a lot of leaders.

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.

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.

Music is how you feel. But if I can say one word, I'll say 'necessary.' I felt it was necessary.

You gotta have life your way. If you ain't losing your mind, you ain't partying right.

I always try to go back and check my old stuff. It's like watching the tapes of the game. You want to go back and go as hard as before.

John McCain... looks like a fraud to me.

Honestly, I'm on the road so much that I never really get a chance to go to baseball games.

I've got to pay $5 for gas just like everybody else.

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.

Love don't love nobody got me feeling like, I shouldn't love myself

This rap game is just WWF; everybody wants points off somebody else.

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.

I don't just do music for the clubs, I do music for the struggle. I do music for everyday niggas, the kids who ain't got no sense of direction. I'm trying to restore some of the morals back into the game, as far as the street.

I don't know how to be a rapper. I just know how to be me.

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.

It wasn't necessary to speak on the recession, you know what I mean, but I just though it made a lot of sense. I was like, "okay, cool," I'm going to go with this approach for the name of the album [ The Recession].

Sam Jackson is like the Jeezy of Hollywood: He's for his people.

Anything that looks good makes you feel better.

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 feel like I'm married to what I do, to the streets. And I feel like when the streets are mad, it's serious.

Sexy, no alcoholic, but she drink like a toilet. Told her do me a favor and put your mouth on this faucet.

The craziest thing is that the song ["My President"] is real but you can still hear it in the club.