This is Black History at its finest! Rapper Jeezy Invites 40 Howard U Students to His Tiny Desk Concert (274 hits)
Say HU, youu knoww!! That’s what we’re all saying after Rapper Jeezy welcomed 40 Howard University students to his recent NPR Tiny Desk Performance.
Howard alumna, Sommer Hill shared her excitement on Twitter after arranging for the students to attend the event. “Not I brought 40 Howard University students to see Jeezy’s Tiny Desk today,” she wrote.
The announcement comes amid the rapper’s success of his New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestselling memoir, Adversity for Sale, which dropped last August.
In his first book, Jeezy shares never heard stories of what it took for him to beat the odds and get out of the streets, his mindset he carefully honed to get an edge, and the lessons that changed his life and business.
Jay "Jeezy" Jenkins' music could easily be taken at face value given the number of hits he's racked up over his two-decade career, but he made his target audience and intention clear through the titles of his Thug Motivation albums. He's taken his mission far beyond music, excelling as an investor and more recently an author. His memoir, Adversity for Sale: Ya Gotta Believe, made it to the New York Times bestseller list.
The Snowman enlisted Tiny Desk vet and bassist D. Hodge to assemble a band to breathe new life into selections from his catalog. The string section brought opulence to these gritty street anthems and features two familiar faces: viola player Lelia-Michelle Walker and NPR's own Ashley Pointer on violin. Jeezy dedicated "Everythang" from TM:103 Hustlerz Ambition to Pointer and showed plenty of love to the group of Howard University students in the crowd. This is Black History at its finest.
