How to Overcome Your Greatest Weaknesses | Jeezy

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0:36With all the experience you have, what would you say is your greatest superpower now? And also what is your biggest weakness still that you're working to overcome that you want to become better at overcoming? My biggest weakness would be dealing with a lot of my childhood trauma because there's sometimes a little J still comes out. You know what I mean? I have to work on that because what I had to kind of come to grips with is that what served me then doesn't serve me now. You know what I mean? And it's like, you know, a violent behavior would serve me then. It protected you. It guarded you. It had a tough demeanor.

1:13It's like, you know, I say the greatest superpower to me is having a good heart. Just doing things for people makes me feel like it fulfills me. You know, when somebody calls me and be like, yo, thank you for introducing me to such and such, that's a good thing for me. And then also problem solving. You can put a hundred problems on this desk. I'm scanning through them and say, okay, this is what we're going to do. And just to add something on to that, I think my biggest super, super power is integrity. I have to move correctly because I have to be able to look at myself in the mirror and there's been some times that I couldn't because I didn't move correctly.

1:46I would lie if I felt like it was going to benefit me or get me out of trouble. I don't think I can do that today. So I try not to get in trouble because I'm going to be like, yeah, I did it. I had learned that a man that's a real man doesn't lie under any circumstance. You coming from this world, you got it. Survival, yeah. You can't tell people everything you're doing. Now you're supposed to tell me the next step because they could be there waiting for you, right? Right. So that was how I lived. But when I started to be more transparent, I started to notice that these quality people that I was bringing to my life became close in me.

2:15They embraced me more. Because you got to think, like, I was the guy talking about coming over to your house for dinner. Oh, no. But the more vulnerable and open and honest and integrity in your word that you are consistently, the more people want to support you who have the same values. And the more they want to give you a lot of the knowledge that they have. 100%. You know what I'm saying? It's just, like, really pour into you. Like, really lean into you. At first, you know, that was a little weird to me because nobody had ever helped me before. So now I'm trying to figure out what's the catch.

2:45Right. What are they trying to get out of here? Right, so now I'm trying to figure out what to get. Trying to use me, trying to get something from me. Right, right, right. And it took a while, and I'm just like, hold on. Like, at first, I couldn't believe it, right? But over time, it started to be like, yo, maybe, you know, that's genuine. That's real. How did you go from not being an artist, not being a rapper, not knowing anything really about music, to working with the biggest names in the world? I think it's my connection to the streets and the people and the culture. because you have your community and you have some leadership there.

3:19By connecting and collabing, you get to get these people ears that you never would have got because they don't know you or believe you, but they believe me. That's the key to it because that's the most reason why people do collabs is to tap into whatever you got. I think we just tap into what each other has. And for me, my stronghold has been the culture, and it's way beyond the music. Like the music is just a vessel and connection to the people. But I think it's more life things to have because you can track and see why I was in a bad space. You can see why I was trying to figure it out. You can see when I started to come out.

3:54You can see when I started to think different. You can see when I started to eat different. You can see when I started to dress different. So you're seeing that evolution and you're starting to go, hold up. I'm from where he's from. I can do that. He's doing like, you know, real estate in Atlanta. It's my thing. And I got business people come to me, talk to me about real estate. These are people in the culture that's really excited about going out here and doing these things that they probably wouldn't have never thought that they can do. But they're seeing what I'm doing. They're going like, wow, like these are the conversations I want to have with you.

4:22I don't want to have conversations with you. Right, the old way. Yeah, it's not good. You've collaborated, obviously, with some of these names that you've talked about with Jay-Z, Rihanna, and Kanye. What's one lesson from each one of them that you've taken from working with them or observing them? Rihanna is always be a star. Really? Yeah, because less is more with her. Less is more, meaning like you don't see her a lot. When she pops out is what she does. I took a page out of that book a while back. You're only going to see me when I need to be seen, and I'm only going to do what I need to do.

4:53That was just being around Rihanna, just seeing how she moved and how she understood. Less is more, and that's what builds her star power. Kanye West, what I learned from him is to never compromise the art over money. He'll hold on to the art until the right moment. or not even that. Like, it's not about money with him. He's more so about the art, the music. He won't compromise that to get some type of compensation for it. He would rather do it his way and go against all the rules because he feels like in his heart that that's right. So it's like, if I don't feel it, you couldn't pay me enough for it.

5:27You couldn't pay me anything to do what I don't feel is right at my heart. Jay-Z doesn't talk much, this guy. Jay's like, man, a very few words. But when we talk, he just always made me understand that don't forget who you are and where you came from and where you're going. Don't compromise who you are or your integrity for anyone. Everywhere he goes, he's unapologetically Sean Carter. Imagine you get to live as long as you want to live. But eventually, it's the last day. You've created so many vision boards. You've accomplished all your dreams a thousandfold. But for whatever reason in this hypothetical world, no one has access to your content, your information, your music, your books.

6:13This conversation is gone. Everything you've ever put out is gone. But on the last day, you get to leave behind three lessons. And this is all we have access of your information, the three lessons that you would share with the world. I call them the three truths. What would be those three truths for you? First truth would be karma is real. I've done some pretty bad things in my life. The man upstairs, big GLD, he made me pay. I'll never go back down that road again. So do right by people and do right by yourself, you know, because karma is real. My second truth would be it's never too late for anything.

6:49Like, you can be how old or you can be in the worst situation in the world. It's just never too late to turn it all around. It's never too late. Like, if you get started today, you're on your way tomorrow, no matter when. and my last truth would be evolve or die. And I don't mean in the sense of the word, but if you're not evolving, you're not living. And the last thing you want to do is take that with you. And they say, you know, the richest place in the world is a cemetery because everybody take all these great things with them and it's just like you might lose a lot evolving, but you'll gain so much more, right?

7:22And you'll have a whole different respect for yourself because we only got one life and your life has to affect more than what you can see or touch. I never thought the end of my life would affect millions and I'm still continuing to chip away at that, right? When I'm no longer here, I want my kids to know that their father was a great man. He stood for something and he wanted to help people the best way he could. He didn't actually come in the best way, but he wanted to help people as much as he could. and I hope and I pray by people seeing me evolve and giving myself permission to do so on my own terms, in my own time, that that helps them understand that there's no judgment if you want to do and become better for yourself, your family, your peers, your community, your culture, your people.

8:15You got that right because when this life is over, it's a wrap. And what you didn't do, never get a chance to do that, ever.

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