Around the same time, Jeezy became part of Bad Boy Entertainment signees Boyz N da Hood and provided the creative push behind the group's self-titled album, a Top Ten Billboard 200 entry released in June 2005. Two years later, the album was expanded and reissued as Come Shop wit' Me, a two-disc set credited to Jenkins' new alias, Young Jeezy. Having set up Corporate Thugz Entertainment (aka CTE) and promoted Cash Money releases, he debuted in 2001 under the name Lil' J with Thuggin' Under the Influence, featuring input from early supporter Kinky B, Shawty Redd, and Lil' Jon.
He entered the music industry in his early twenties, following a return to Atlanta with the intent of remaining in the background.
Jeezy intended to retire after TM104: The Legend of the Snowman (2019), his last Def Jam LP, but returned the next year with multiple EPs and full-length project The Recession 2.īorn in Columbia, South Carolina and raised in Georgia - first in Atlanta, then Hawkinsville and Macon - Jay Wayne Jenkins had an upbringing complicated by gang affiliation and street hustling. Four tracks were nominated for Grammys in the Best Rap Performance categories: "Put On" and "Amazing" (both Kanye West collaborations), "Lose My Mind" (assisted by Plies), and "I Do" (a summit with Jay-Z and André 3000). During this period, Jeezy accrued well over a dozen gold and platinum singles as the lead or featured artist.
Simultaneously a key player in Atlanta's commercial dominance and Def Jam's enduring relevance, Jeezy hit the Top Ten with all eight of his subsequent major-label albums, which included the number one entries The Inspiration (2006), The Recession (2008), and Trap or Die 3 (2016). Only a month after that group crashed the Top Ten of the Billboard 200 with their self-titled album for Bad Boy, the rapper nearly topped the chart with his solo Def Jam debut, Let's Get It: Thug Motivation 101 (2005).
Trap music trailblazer Jeezy, identifiable by his gruff and energized rhymes written from a uniquely streetwise perspective, emerged from the Atlanta underground as a member of Boyz N da Hood.
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