Seen it All
The singers sing about what it was like to grow up the way they did – making money by selling drugs to make ends meet, watching people they knew get shot and killed. Jay Z also sings about his current basketball dealings: "Now the Nets a stone throw from where I used to throw bricks / So it's only right I'm still tossing 'round Knicks."
Did you know?
- As of September 13, 2014 “Seen it All” has charted at number 24 on the US Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart and number 85 on the US Billboard Hot 100.
- The album features guest appearances from Jay-Z, Rick Ross, Game, Lil Boosie, Future, August Alsina and Akon.
- The album debuted at number 2 on the Billboard 200, with sales of 121,000 copies in the United States. This was nearly a 50% decrease in sales from his last studio album TM:103 Hustlerz Ambition which sold 233,000 copies in its first week of sales.
- Jay Wayne Jenkins (born September 28, 1977), better known by his stage name Young Jeezy or simply Jeezy. He was born in Columbia, South Carolina and relocated to Atlanta, Georgia when he was a toddler.
- He is the de facto leader of Southern hip hop group United Streets Dopeboyz of America (USDA) and a former member of Boyz n da Hood as well as the Black Mafia Family (BMF).
- To date, he has received four Grammy nominations.
- In 1994, he spent nine months in YCA (Youth Challenge Academy), a boot camp in Fort Stewart, Georgia, for narcotics possession.
- He also portrayed himself in the hip-hop fighting themed game Def Jam: Icon.
- Jeezy and Jay-Z performed in a concert to celebrate the inauguration of President Barack Obama on January 18, 2009. On The O'Reilly Factor, commentator Bill O'Reilly criticized their performance as a "rant that offended people", but Jeezy responded: "I got white friends. It's nothing like that. I'm a taxpayer, I got a right to voice my opinion at any point in time. I don't think he really understands my struggle."
- After Hurricane Katrina, Jeezy opened his house to the victims in an effort to help them have a place to stay.