#THUG MOTIVATION 101 TRACKLIST SERIES#
The Thug Motivation series does that because I’ve never met someone when I’m out that says, “I like TM because of a song.” It’s “ TM 101 saved my life” or “ TM 103, I was in college and I was listening to it and that’s the only way I got through.”Īnd by the way, you gotta have some big nuts to tell somebody you motivated thugs, because these are the people that don’t need motivation. If you think about the TM series from The Inspiration to 103: Hustlerz Ambition to Thug Motivation, if you listen to the subtitles, they’re like chapters.īeing able to change people’s outlook on what they’re going through. If somebody’s going through illness, certain scriptures make them strong. When you think about scriptures and if somebody’s going through depression, certain scriptures are uplifting. There are things you can’t just make up and the people going through those things understand them the most. If you really think about it, a TM series is like Bible scriptures. I just wanted to be heard and tell people what I was going through. I didn’t realize that was something I was doing early on. I’m into their craft and how they connect with people and for me. When I look at The Blueprint and what Jay has done, and then I look at TM, even now I’m into a lot of motivational speakers. Where does the TM series rank in all-time hip-hop?
You got Jay with the Volume series and you got Wayne with Tha Carter series and Kanye with his college series. The TM series is probably one of the best album series in hip-hop. You got your whole life to write your first album and that was my first gift to the world, you know? So that was a proud moment to push through everything that I was going through.Īs you said, you went double plat, landed at No. I’m proud for getting it done and the streets for really supporting me. I made it through, so TM 101, with my blood, sweat and tears, will always be a milestone for me. The whole world didn’t know what I was up against, and I was up early in the morning, late every night, fighting for my existence, fighting for my freedom, fighting for my words to be heard. That was my first time experiencing adversity for the whole world to see. Keep in mind that I couldn’t even talk so I had to mix the album by writing down the changes on a piece of paper for the engineer to know what I wanted to turn up and turn down because I didn’t have a voice, nor did I know if I was going to be able to speak again. And I recorded that album in my homeboy’s basement. Getting through all that and really believing in my words and my music and my movement and my mindset - that was the proudest moment for me, because I pushed through all that and that album did two mil plus.
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