Jeezy: The Snowman admits to leaving some people in the past, reveals if he wants more kids and more

If there’s one thing you can count on from the Snowman, it’s the fact Jeezy always has some things to talk about. From embracing his family goals to putting his pen game toward book-writing over delivering more albums right now - it’s all must-hear moments from his conversation with Audacy V-103 sit-down with the legendary ‘Big Tigger Morning Show.’

The Snowman a.k.a. Jeezy talks family, book and everything in-between with Audacy V-103

Getting everything from why he really dropped ‘Young’ off his rap alias to having a dad in the Marines, Jeezy doesn’t leave much - if anything - out from this conversation. Peep some interview highlights and keep scrolling for the full-fledged conversation.

Why some people from his past aren’t in his life now [03:25]: “Life started lifing. You know, you start paying for lawyers and lawsuits and, you know, it just, life started lifing. And, you know, like anything else the layers peel off. You know what I'm saying? And it's like, you don't want it to be that way, but that's the way life happens. Because life telling you, ‘If you don't start peeling off some of these layers, you won't survive.’ And you know how they tell you on the plane, you know, ‘If the plane going down, you gotta put your face mask on first.’ The plane was going down, you feel me? So I had to put my face mask on…”

The hardest thing for him to leave behind [05:10]: “My identity. You know, I was good in the street… I had all the respect I needed. So for me to try to enter the music, I almost was taking a risk because last thing you wanna do is be a street guy that's a whack rapper… “

If he wants more children [12:15]: “Uh, I’m focusing on the book right now.”

What’s the hardest part of being Jeezy, writing the book was therapeutic [14:10]:  “My first, you know, three albums and two mix tapes, I was probably the most depressed I ever been in my life. And I didn't even know what depression was. You know what I'm saying? Anxiety, all these things, I didn't have the words for that. As I started to learn and peel back the layers, I'm like, ‘Oh, this is what's going on.’“

More from the interview:
[01:15] – Why he dropped the “Young”
[01:45] – New memoir Adverity for Sale: "The reason why I called it Adversity For Sale is because when people see you and see the finish product, not the Young Jeezy but the Jeezy, they feel like its just two steps and a hop and they can get there, and it's just like I lost way more times than I ever won…"
[06:55] – His father was a Marine, moved around a lot: “...but the reality of it was when I got back to the 'hood when my parents divorced, I knew there was beaches. I knew there was palm trees. So I'm trying to explain that to people in the hood. And they're like, ‘Man, what are you talking about? Ain't never left the block.’”
[08:25] – Four things to be successful, why he wrote the book now
[10:15] – Atlanta’s place in the 50th anniversary of Hip-Hop, Andre 3000’s “the south got somethin' to say” statement at the 1995 Source Awards
[11:10] – “Tupac was like my therapist.”
[12:50] – His relationship with his sister
[17:20] – How he manages anxiety
[18:15] – If he’s working on new music