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What sets Young Jeezy's music apart is his ability to bring color and flash to a story that has been told so many times before.

I'm trying to restore some of the morals back into the game, as far as the street." I do music for everyday niggas, the kids who ain't got no sense of direction. " I don't just do music for the clubs, I do music for the struggle. "Basically, I'm a real nigga so I can relate more to a lot of cats," Jeezy says of his appeal.

With over 100,000 mixtapes and over 200,000 Trap Or Die DVD's sold in a little more than a year, Def Jam decided to invest in the youngster and made him the most recent signee to the label. So he hit the mixtape circuit with exclusive tracks recorded with longtime collaborator Shawty Red.

Having lost many things in his life- family, friends and time (a prison bid that he doesn't like to give too much light)-Jeezy had a sense of urgency about his music. I have a way with words and I know how to hustle." Ain't nobody gonna go as hard as you gonna go. I had other artists, some local cats off the street, but it didn't work out," explains the twenty-five year old Georgia native. "Before music I was just trying to survive out this motherfucker. As CEO of Corporate Thug Entertainment, Jeezy was content to stack his paper from the background. Like many hustlers on the mic, rapping wasn't in Jeezy's original game plan. Now the world will get to find out what insiders have been buzzing about when his Def Jam debut, Let's Get It: Thug Motivation 101 drops this summer. In his native Atlanta, and throughout the south, Young Jeezy has created nothing short of a movement. Thanks to underground testimonials like "Air Forces" and "Chuuch," Jeezy's street swagger and authentic style has quickly made believers out of some the biggest players in the game, from Fabolous to P. With Atlanta serving up some of the hottest product in the rap game, native son Young Jeezy stands as one of the most exciting merchants of cool to emerge in years. No matter what is being supplied, a hustler is only as good as his word.