Jeezy believes that he would be on Jay-Z and Dr. Dre’s level if he focused more on business earlier in his career.

Jeezy stated, “I had my stints of when I first came up in the music game, I wanted to still live a certain type of way because that’s what I felt like was going to get me to the next level. There was a period of my life, around the time I was probably depressed, that I was doing a lot of things that didn’t financially make sense in the beginning because now you’re trying to live up to this stereotype that you built.”

He added, “I think if I took that time knowing what I know and strategically went into business even earlier, I would be where a lot of my other peers are at right at now. I’m still gon’ there but, you think about the Dr. Dres and the JAY-Zs and all that, it’s just like they got the game earlier. And I just think it took me a long time to get the game because I wasn’t in those type of rooms, because the difference between me and them is I came with a lot of gangsta s**t.”

He continued, “Nobody really about business wanna be around that. You come to a meeting with 100 people, it don’t make sense, but I thought that was the way to go.”