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Jeezy didn't know he was depressed for 8 years. 'You wake up, you want to go back to sleep forever'

Jeezy has long rapped about his experiences growing up around drug dealing and street life in his childhood community in Georgia. But seldom has he shared the toll it took on his mental health. In his memoir, "Adversity for Sale: Ya Gotta Believe," published in August, the Southern trap-music pioneer opened up about how trauma from his youth followed him into adulthood and showed up as anxiety ...
Jeezy, left, and Jeannie Mai attend Jay "Jeezy" Jenkins' 2nd Annual Sno Ball Gala at Flourish Atlanta on Sept. 29, 2022, in Atlanta.

Jeezy has long rapped about his experiences growing up around drug dealing and street life in his childhood community in Georgia.

But seldom has he shared the toll it took on his mental health.

In his memoir, "Adversity for Sale: Ya Gotta Believe," published in August, the Southern trap-music pioneer opened up about how trauma from his youth followed him into adulthood and showed

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