Jeezy once paid $70,000 in cash for throat surgery.
Yesterday, Jeezy appeared on ESPN’s “Highly Questionable” and shared a couple of entertaining stories about things he’s experienced throughout his life. During the beginning of his career, Jeezy recalls when he tore his vocal cords in half and needed to have surgery to repair them.
Jeezy remembers having to pay $70,000 for the operation because he didn’t have health insurance at the time. The Snowman admits that he was great at saving money, so not only did he have the money on deck, he showed up to the doctor’s office with a brown paper bag filled with $70,000 in cash.
Jeezy stated, “About 2005-6, the scariest moment in my life was when I was actually successful. I wasn’t trained properly how to perform and I used to yell a lot when I was on stage. I tore my vocal cords in half. So, I wasn’t able to talk when I was at the height of my success for around seven months and nobody knew if i was going to be able to talk again.”
He went on to say, “So, I had to go sneak and get surgery and I didn’t have insurance. So, I had to pay for it with a brown paper bag full of 20. It was the scariest point in my life because I just remember having all of this success and having to hide out because I couldn’t talk. I couldn’t perform so I missed a lot of money and a lot of time.”
“But, the whole time when I was sitting there those six-seven months, I just prayed a lot because I was just like how could God give me this gift and take it away just that fast. Matter fact, my first album, I had to mix it writing my notes down for the engineer because I couldn’t talk. So when you hear Thug Motivation just know that I lost my vocal cords for the whole duration of the album.”
On October 28, Jeezy will drop his new “Trap or Die 3” album.
