QC Coach K says Jeezy was 'MORE RELEVANT' Than Jay z | The South RUNS Hip-Hop |Rap Facts Episode 2
46#Jeezy #JayZ #Rap #RapFacts #ShowTymeonPointSports \nCoach K is best known now as the founder of Quality Control, the label that brought the world Migos, Lil Yachty, Lil Baby and more.\n\nBut before that, he was Jeezy‘s manager. And in a recent interview, Coach K has said that his former client was at one point “more relevant” than even JAY-Z.\n\nThe rap mogul appeared on the latest episode of the podcast Business Untitled, which dropped on Wednesday (November 15), and was asked about the moment he knew that Jeezy had really made it.\n\nHe pegged it to the July 2004 release of the rapper’s mixtape Tha Streetz Iz Watchin’.\n\n“We pressed up like 100,000 [copies], put them on the streets. And within a month, the phone started ringing. We were doing the chitlin’ circuit,” he said. “We put that mixtape out in July. And by February, we did $6 million on the road. All cash. We hadn’t even put an album out yet. And then we did Trap or Die mixtape, I knew it was a wrap.”\n\nCoach K then claimed that during that period, Jeezy was “more relevant” than JAY-Z.\n\n“JAY was much bigger, but I’m saying relevant,” he argued. “It’s moments where some of these smaller artists is more relevant than the bigger artists.”\n\nK’s primary evidence that he offered was that “New York was on [Jeezy] like that and the whole South.” Meanwhile, he argued: “The South wasn’t really into ‘Big Pimpin,’'” referencing Hov’s 1999 hit with UGK.\n\nBirdman thinks that the South reigns supreme when it comes to the conversation regarding rap dominance. While the conversation typically tends to be East coast vs. West coast rap, Birdman says Jermaine Dupri is a big reason why Southern rappers saw commercial success. During an episode of The 85 South Show podcast earlier this month, Birdman shared his thoughts on which region dominates the hip-hop music scene. The Cash Money Records boss said that the South has taken over from both the West and the East. He believes that once people caught onto the South's sound, they started paying attention. "But once they caught on to us, like it is now, I don’t think they’ll ever get it back," Birdman explained. "We here forever."