Published video “It’s more than a show, it’s an experience ⛄️🎲 Alll roads lead to Vegas‼️”.
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Jeezy
Jay Wayne Jenkins, known by his stage name Jeezy, is an American rapper. He is credited, alongside fellow Georgia-based rappers T.I. and Gucci Mane, with pioneering the hip hop subgenre trap music for mainstream audiences. Jenkins began his career in 2001, releasing two independent albums until signing with Def Jam Recordings to release his major label debut, Let's Get It: Thug Motivation 101 (200…
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business · American rapper (born 1977) · rapper · songwriter · music executive · actor · entrepreneur · record producer · musician · businessperson · film actor · also Jeezy, Jay Jenkins, Young Jeezy, Jay Wayne Jenkins, The Snowman, Lil' J
Born 28 September 1977 · Q342447
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2026· 9 entries
Published video “What I got next? Come to Vegas and find out‼️ More than show. This is an experience ⛄️🫡”.
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Published video “⛄️🍋 LEGEND OF THE SNOWMAN: AGAINST ALL ODDS‼️”.
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Published video “LEADERSHIP - Legend of the Snowman @TheDonLemonShow”.
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Published video “Abundance: ⛄️🍋 LEGEND OF THE SNOWMAN: AGAINST ALL ODDS‼️”.
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Published video “You never know who is going to pop out of the 66 Thunderbird‼️ ⛄️”.
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Published video “Music has changed my life. Saved my life and culture has done the same ‼️”.
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Published video “"You're dying for things you don't own". Watch ⛄️🍋 LEGEND OF THE SNOWMAN: AGAINST ALL ODDS‼️”.
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Published video “Vegas, I DO ⛄️🎲It’s gon’ be a cold summer. Get your tickets now. #legendofthesnowman”.
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2025· 2 entries
Released album “Still Snowin’”.
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Released album “TM:101 Live”.
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2023· 2 entries
Released album “I Might Forgive... But I Don't Forget”.
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Jenkins filed for divorce, stating that "the marriage of the parties is irretrievably broken" with "no hope for reconciliation"
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2022· 4 entries
Released album “GOATED: Jeezy”.
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Released album “Snofall”.
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The mixtape, Snofall, hosted by Gangsta Grillz DJ Drama was released
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Jeezy announced a mixtape to be released the following month to help fulfill his contract with Def Jam Recordings, the label that housed him for over eighteen years
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2020· 8 entries
Jeezy released his tenth studio album, The Recession 2
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Released album “The Recession 2”.
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Released ep “Trap or Treat”.
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Released album “Thug Passion”.
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Released album “Go Crazy”.
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Released album “Trap or Die”.
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Released album “Thug Motivation”.
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Released ep “Twenty/20 Pyrex Vision”.
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2019· 2 entries
Jeezy released his ninth album, TM104: The Legend of the Snowman
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Released album “TM104: The Legend of the Snowman”.
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2017· 2 entries
Jeezy released his eighth studio album Pressure, originally titled Snow Season
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Released album “Pressure”.
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2016· 3 entries
Jeezy released his new album Trap or Die 3, which became available for pre-order on iTunes earlier that month
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Released album “Trap or Die 3”.
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Released album “iAmTrap”.
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2015· 5 entries
Released album “Church in These Streets”.
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Released ep “Politically Correct”.
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Jeezy announced that he would release a new project entitled Church in These Streets
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Released album “Gangsta Party”.
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Edaz Redden filed a copyright lawsuit against Jeezy for his single "I Ball, I Stunt", claiming that the entire song was stolen
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2014· 7 entries
Released album “Seen It All: The Autobiography”.
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Jenkins and five other men pleaded not guilty to possession of an illegal assault rifle
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Jenkins was arrested before performing at the Irvine, California stop on the Under The Influence Tour in connection with the deadly shooting two days prior in the backstage area, on another stop of the tour in Mountain V
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Released the second single, "Seen It All", featuring Jay-Z
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Jeezy released the first single "Me Ok" from his upcoming fifth studio album Seen It All: The Autobiography
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Released album “ATL”.
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Jenkins was arrested for battery, false imprisonment, and terrorist threats after an alleged fight with his son in September 2012
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2013· 7 entries
Jeezy premiered the first single "In My Head", produced by Childish Major, from his CTE collaboration mixtape "Its Tha World 2"
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Leroy Hutson, former lead singer of 1970s R&B group the Impressions, filed a complaint against Jenkins and others alleging that Jenkins' song "Time" inappropriately incorporated the instrumental portion of "Getting it On
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Young Jeezy released a compilation mixtape titled Boss Yo Life Up Gang with CTE World artists, Doughboyz Cashout and YG
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Released album “Bo$$ Yo Life Up Gang, Vol. 1”.
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Released album “The Poems of Jay Jenkins”.
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Released ep “#ItsThaWorld”.
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Brian Smith filed a copyright infringement complaint seeking an injunction, damages, and attorney fees against Jenkins and others in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Georgia, concerning the w
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2012· 3 entries
Jeezy released It's Tha World, the aforementioned mixtape, hosted by DJ Drama
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Released album “Its Tha World”.
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Young Jeezy's "I Do" received a Grammy nomination for Best Rap Performance
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2011· 10 entries
Released album “TM:103: Hustlerz Ambition”.
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Jeezy released the third single off Thug Motivation 103, named "F
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Released album “Mixtape Monster: 103 Edition”.
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Released album “The Real Is Back 2”.
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Released album “The Real Is Back”.
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Jeezy released the first single off the album, "Ballin", which features Lil Wayne and peaked at No
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Released album “All Platinum Everything”.
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Released album “Hood Politics”.
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“And most trap has scary music or some type of ambience [ sic ]. Sometimes it makes me think of The Twilight Zone. It makes you feel like you’re in a dark dungeon, like you’re in the trap itself.”
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Released album “103”.
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2010· 5 entries
Released album “The Last Laugh”.
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Released album “1,000 Grams, Volume 1”.
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Released album “All White Everything (B.M.F. Edition)”.
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Awarded BET Award for Viewer's Choice for Hard (2010).
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Released album “Trap or Die, Part 2: By Any Means Necessary”.
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2009· 2 entries
Released album “Trappin' Ain't Dead”.
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“I'm on my Disney shit, goofy flow/ on records I'm Captain Hook, and my new car is Rufio/ Damn, where my roof just go?”
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2008· 7 entries
Released album “The Recession”.
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Jeezy released The Recession, his third studio album and, what would be, his second consecutive number one album
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Released album “Crack Addiction”.
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In Atlanta, Jenkins was arrested for DUI
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Released album “The Prime Minister”.
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Released album “The Mixtape Monster”.
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Released album “The Lost Tapes”.
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2007· 6 entries
Released album “The Ice Cream Man, Part 2”.
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Released album “Corporate Thuggin”.
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Released album “Election Day”.
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Released album “When the North & South Collide Part 2”.
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Released ep “Go Getta Hit Pack”.
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Released album “The Ice Cream Man”.
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2006· 8 entries
Released album “Welcome to the Tundra, Vol. 2”.
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Released his second major label album, The Inspiration
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Released album “The Inspiration”.
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Released album “I Am the Street Dream!”.
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Released album “Welcome to the Tundra”.
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Released album “$nowman”.
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Released album “Can’t Ban the Snowman”.
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Jeezy was featured in Christina Milian's single "Say I"
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2005· 6 entries
Released album “Snow Storm, Part II”.
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Released album “Let’s Get It: Thug Motivation 101”.
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Jenkins was arrested after an alleged shooting with some of his friends in Miami Beach, Florida
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Jeezy was featured in several popular hip hop songs including Gucci Mane's "Icy" and Boyz n da Hood's "Dem Boyz"
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Released album “Trap or Die (Chopped and Screwed)”.
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Released album “Snowstorm”.
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2004· 2 entries
Released album “Tha Streets Iz Watching”.
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Jeezy signed with Bad Boy Records and joined the group Boyz n da Hood, whose self-titled album was released in June 2005 and peaked at No
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2003· 2 entries
Released album “Come Shop Wit' Me”.
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Jeezy independently released Come Shop wit Me, a two-CD set featuring new tracks along with some songs previously released on T
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2001· 4 entries
Released album “Thuggin Under the Influence”.
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Releasing two independent albums until signing with Def Jam Recordings to release his major label debut, Let's Get It: Thug Motivation 101 (2005)
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Under the name Lil J, Young Jeezy released his first independent album, Thuggin' Under the Influence (T
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And has signed artists including YG and Freddie Gibbs
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1998· 1 entry
Jeezy launched the label imprint CTE World, then known as Corporate Thugz Entertainment
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1995· 1 entry
Jeezy spent six months in YCP (Youth Challenge Program), a boot camp in Fort Stewart, Georgia, for narcotics possession
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1977· 1 entry
Born 1977-09-28.
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