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Young Jeezy had $2M in cash on "TM101" Album Cover
via Complex
http://www.complex.com/mu... motivation-101
The cover shoot for Young Jeezy’s major label debut album, Let's Get It: Thug Motivation 101, did not go as planned. The setup was simple enough: Jeezy sitting in front of boxes of money stacked up like Legos. Jeezy realized the money on set wasn’t real, and to him, that meant the entire shoot was illegitimate. With nearly $2 million in fake cash on hand for the shoot, Def Jam’s art team wondered how in the world they were supposed to get that much real cash to replace it. That’s when Jeezy made a phone call. Twenty minutes later, his people pulled up with four duffel bags and started pouring out $1.8 million in bills—$200,000 short of the $2 million required to fill up all the boxes.
“I was like, ‘Go out to my trunk and get the rest,’” says the 37-year-old Jeezy, sitting in his Malibu mansion that overlooks the beach. “I wanted it to be that real. I can’t talk to these people about Thug Motivation when we have fake money in the boxes. That would make me just like every other rapper.”