![]() Church in These Streets continues his trend toward community-building. In the months that followed, he became one of rap’s most passionate speakers in the Black Lives Matter movement. “You need to be mindful of your words and the things you say.”įollowing Michael Brown’s killing last year, he came to Ferguson, spoke to protesters, and urged calm. ![]() But his true conversion came following an intervention of sorts by E-40 and Snoop Dogg, who told him in 2011, “We feel like you started off rapping to be a rapper, and now you’re a leader and you need to lead,” Jeezy told me. His focus began to shift somewhat on his 2008 album The Recession, which featured the memorable Obama shoutout My President.
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