Jeezy has given praise to Charlamagne Tha God for assisting him in getting his new book, Adversity For Sale: Ya Gotta Believe, published.
The Snowman appeared on The Breakfast Club on Thursday (August 10) and started by jokingly saying the reason he’s decided to release his memoir was because “the statue of limitations is up” and “I ran everything through my lawyers first and foremost.”
He then dived into Charlamagne’s contribution toward getting Adversity For Sale to the finish line.
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“Shoutout to my brother right here to my right,” Jeezy said as the camera panned toward the Breakfast Club co-host. “This book was something I had been working on. I had one situation and it fell through, and I called Charlamagne and was like, ‘Bro, who published your book, how did you get it done’ and he pointed in the right direction.”
He added: “Thank you for that brother. He helped me get this done, so just know Charlamagne had a lot to do with that.”
Check out the full interview below:
The Atlanta rap superstar has been on a nationwide book tour, promoting Adversity For Sale and talking about aspects of his life beyond what’s already in the music he’s given fans for nearly two decades.
Last week, he sat down with PEOPLE and spoke about a time when he almost took his own life and what it was that drove him to contemplate the idea.
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Jeezy reflected back to his younger years when he attended the Youth Challenge program in Fort Stewart, Georgia following years of dealing drugs and stealing cars. He said the program wasn’t a “walk in the park.”
“You’re basically in the Marines or the Army and people are telling you what to do. You gotta shine your boots,” the Atlanta rapper said. “I don’t know about anybody else [but] I’m just not good at being told what to do. And I’m coming from a place where I’m basically a boss. But maybe a few weeks in I’m like, ‘Hold up, I’m working out.’”
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He continued: “It taught me structure. And it took me out of the environment that I was in for me to become even more focused than I was because I thought I was focused, but I really wasn’t. I didn’t have a plan. I just was going through the motions.”
As the nine-month program drew to a close, a young Jeezy remembered a defining field trip he took to a naval base and stood aboard one of their ships.
“I remember standing there and saying to myself: ‘Man, if you go back home and you don’t figure this out. Because I don’t want to end up like my friends,’” he explained. “My friends became junkies and they were getting killed and all these things.”
He continued: “So it was all this stuff in my head. I just remember standing there and it was for a brief moment, I would say at least about 10 minutes, I actually contemplated jumping in the water. I had never had suicidal thoughts, but I [thought], ‘Well, shit, if I just jump in the water, I ain’t gotta deal with this. I ain’t gotta go back home. I gotta do none of these things.’”
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However, Jeezy said he didn’t go through with it because something inside him told him: “‘No, bro. You gonna have to man up. You gonna have to go back home. You got to figure this out.’” When he left the youth program, he believed he was “ready for anything.”
