About Me 0124: Im Making Money

Young Jeezy is undoubtedly the realest rapper in the game.

For the past seven years, Jeezy has been giving the world a little thug motivation one album at a time.

Jeezy initially announced his highly anticipated album TM103: Hustlerz Ambition in the fall of 2009, now two years later, fans will finally get what they've been waiting for.

GlobalGrind caught up with Young Jeezy to find out all the inside details of creating TM103: Hustlerz Ambition, as well as his inspiration behind TM:103 Hustlerz Ambition documentary.

Jeezy's highly anticipated album TM103: Hustlerz Ambition is set to hit store shelves December 20th.

Check out our exclusive interview below!

Global Grind: TM103, we’ve been waiting for this, which seems like forever. It leaked online already.

Young Jeezy: Yeah, I’m looking for the n*gga who leaked my sh*t.

What was the journey of putting together TM103? It’s been two years in the making.

It wasn’t really a journey. I had a few things happen in between, a couple things with some of my homies, a little light sh*t. I was always working. That’s why I kept putting out mixtapes. When I thought about it, I wanted to put the album out the top of the year, 2012. That was my plan. That’s why I do my albums with my own money, so I can control it. Because the labels wanna do things on their own time to meet their quotas. I get it. But sometimes when you’re making music for a culture, you gotta do it when the time is right. It becomes microwaved shit, put it in 15 minutes and you move to the next.

None of your album have been "microwaved sh*t."

Because I always pay for them. So they gotta wait on me. They can’t out it out because they have no music.

A lot has been made in the debate about Autism and healthcare, because of the potential burden it will place on insurance companies, who will most likely trickle that cost down to everyone. I'm not going to get into the debate as to whether or not insurance coverage for Autism is right or justified, but rather I want to talk about the costs of Autism. Or, more specifically, the overall toll Autism plays on families.

Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA) therapy is the only therapy or "treatment" that seems to work with children with Autism. It uses the Behavioralist method of teaching by encouraging correct behaviors with rewards. It also uses the Environmentalist teaching method, in that practitioners eliminate distractions from the classroom environment, making it easier for the children to learn. It's great, when done correctly, and it can be expensive.

In order for it to work, you need to have a psychologist on staff, your therapist, an occupational therapist (manages sensory needs as well as motor skills), and a teacher. Most often your staff to student ratio comes very close to 1:1, and that's expensive. These are all highly trained individuals that have worked hard, studied hard, and spent a lot of money to get their education customized to work with these children.

Now, many good school districts, much like the one we are currently in, have great programs that provide all this as part of the Public school system. Most do not, from what I understand. Therefore parents need to go to special private schools, often costing them between $28,000 to $50,000 a year per student. If they have two children, it's doubled, and so on for each child on the Spectrum. It's not the most encouraging sign.

And, of course, these schools and supportive school districts are few and far between. That means either driving long distances, or moving to locations that have support for children on the Spectrum. This limits job mobility, housing opportunities, and a feeling of control that many people have naturally. That goes to piece of mind, and is a hidden stress point on families with children on the Spectrum.

But therapy isn't the only thing that is expensive! When the child goes home, they need to continue the same routines that they are being taught at school. Therefore parents need to modify the home environment to match, as much as possible, the school environment. For some families, that means providing a "sensory room", where children can pull out of their fog by being provided the sensory stimulation or deprivation they need, depending on their sensory needs. So dark rooms, soft music, indoor swings, trampolines, full body massagers, and a ball pit are just some of the things that can help children. Some of those things are pretty cheap, but others can be expensive.

About Me 0124

Monday, December 26, 2011

Im Making Money

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