Jeezy On New Album & Whether He’ll Make A Song For Hillary Clinton

On his growth as an artist on his recent EP “Politically Correct”: 

Everything that you’re hearing [now] is me taking the approach of writing songs like a diary. I have a pad; I’ve never had a pad before in my whole life. One of my partners was like, “You’re a poet, you should write in your diary.” I’m like, “I don’t really got time for that shit, maybe I could just try and write my music.” So I’m just sitting there and writing it as if I was writing a letter, because I’m good at writing letters and shit like that.

If his music is too politically-correct now & his thoughts on T.I. saying he wouldn’t vote for Hillary Clinton because she’s a woman:

I think so. When I’m on my ignorant shit, I’m just on my ignorant shit. [However], I just don’t naturally say things that are gonna put me in a situation that I don’t want to be in. You gotta say things that you want to stand behind. Barack don’t talk crazy, and if he does we’ll never hear it. (Laughs)

How he feels on Barack Obama as a president:

He did alright for a situation that was all the way messed up. I think we’re all gonna have to wait until he’s out of the office to see how much of a difference he made. He got a little less than a year left. He’s gotta turn up, man.

On if Obama has made change:

He went and got Bin Laden. That was a plus. He changed healthcare. He brought unemployment down.

If he and Hillary Clinton had plans on a collaboration:

Will I make a song for Hillary? Nah, I wouldn’t do that. Nah.

If he’s reading more:

I try to more than I used to. I didn’t really have the time; I’d start on something and I would rush through it. One of my guys out in L.A. sends me books every week. I just see how he kick it, he got his shit together. He’s a real smart dude, got over 2,200 employees.

Every time I talk to him we sit down and smoke cigars. He always got some game for me. I ask him where he get all this information from and he says, “books, man.” A dude who reads a lot, knows everything.

-@Octavianakia