by Kandiss Edwards
August 1, 2025
Created by Fahamu Pecou the portrait coincides with the twentieth anniversary of Jeezy’s debut album, “Thug Motivation: 101.”
Jay “Jeezy” Jenkins debuted a self-portrait created by Dr. Fahamu Pecou.
The disclosing came about on the Johnson Lowe Gallery in Atlanta. Coinciding with the twentieth anniversary of Jenkins’s debut album, Thug Motivation: 101, the gathering was a celebration of longevity and transformation.
The sale of the picture will profit Jeezy Jenkins’s Road Dreamz Basis and Pecou’s African Diaspora Artwork Museum of Atlanta. The portrait shows the rapper in an all-white ensemble. He sits atop what seems to be a stool studying a fictitious e book, They We Didn’t Understand We Had been Seeds. Moreover, Jenkins is surrounded by symbolic imagery: a college chair, a transparent backpack full of cowrie shells, engraved together with his signature snowman emblem, and extra.
In an essay on Substack, Pecou wrote concerning the significance of Jeezy’s legacy and metamorphosis over time. She celebrates his decades-long journey and likens his stroll to that of Black folks normally. Dr. Pecou believes the Soul Survivor rapper’s music is “each mirror and map—a mirrored image of battle” and “a blueprint for transformation.”
“This collaboration is a celebration of legacy—not simply Jeezy’s or mine, however the broader legacy of Black creativity that thrives within the face of constraint. It honors what we’ve survived, what we’ve constructed, and what we proceed to think about,” Pecou wrote.
The occasion highlighted a rising pattern the place artists and musicians accomplice to channel creativity with the intention to uplift their respective communities.
Certainly, Jeezy has been on a roll supporting Atlanta communities. On July 26, the rapper partnered with Native Initiatives Assist Company to arrange a neighborhood day for School Park residents.
Atlanta and its artists proceed to thrive and proceed its wealthy cultural historical past. The disclosing displays Jeezy’s ambition to merge artwork, enterprise, and social uplift in ways in which generate each inspiration and impression.
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