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Whats’s it like writing for Kanye?

Young Jeezy: First of all, Kanye fucking flew in the ’copter to Hawaii, so I was all on it anyway. When I got there, I saw dolphins in the swimming pool, so I’m like, “What the fuck.” He would play songs and be like, “So what you think?” And I’d be like, “Well, shit, you might wanna change this,” because I’m looking at it from a street nigga’s perspective, you know what I’m saying? I kinda just came in and gave my input and made sure all the dots connected. You gotta go in with the mindset that you know who you’re dealing with or who you’re writing for. ’Cause I done gave niggas some jewels and niggas like, “Yo, this shit is crazy.”

So is it like acting in a way?

Young Jeezy: I wouldn’t even say acting, it’s more like me being somebody that probably listens to some of their music and knows what I wanna hear from them.

From that kind of music.

Young Jeezy: Yeah, because at the same time, it’s friendly competition. That’s why all my features always been G like that. I knew what “Put On” was to me. I was like, “You know what? If I put Kanye on this motherfucker…he ain’t never been on no shit like this.” And when he heard it—he tells me all the time—he said, “That’s one of the best verses I ever done.” And I knew he was gonna do that when I gave it. When he sent me the verse back and I heard it, I was like, “Yup.” But I heard him on it. You know what I’m saying? And it took the song to a whole ’nother level.

You’re a good listener.’Cause you listen to all kinds of music.

Young Jeezy: Yeah, and I wasn’t scared to push the envelope with certain things. To call my last album The Recession was taking a chance. Because—now I’ma keep it 100, I’ma keep it 103—I even had to catch myself explaining why I did “My President is Black.” Niggas called me from the pen like, “Yo!”

Source: Complex