Jeezy teamed up with artist Dr. Fahamu Pècou for a personal artwork public sale in Atlanta that raised funds for youth empowerment.
Jeezy introduced Hip-Hop and tremendous artwork collectively in Atlanta for a personal public sale that raised funds for youth applications and honored the twentieth anniversary of his breakout album.
The Grammy-nominated rapper partnered with acclaimed visible artist Dr. Fahamu Pècou on July 29 to debut “Faculty of Laborious Knocks,” a customized portrait unveiled on the Johnson Lowe Gallery.
The portray, which offered to Jeezy’s longtime mentor Jerry Thomas for an undisclosed quantity, will profit each Jeezy’s Avenue Dreamz Basis and the African Diaspora Artwork Museum of Atlanta.
The occasion celebrated Jeezy’s 2005 debut album Let’s Get It: Thug Motivation 101 and merged themes of resilience, transformation and training.
The paintings depicts Jeezy in all white, posed like a professor holding a fictional ebook titled They We Didn’t Notice We Had been Seeds.
The piece additionally features a clear backpack crammed with cowrie shells and a crystallized Snowman emblem—symbols that reimagine surveillance instruments as markers of empowerment.
“This portray is not only a tribute to Jeezy’s 20-year legacy,” mentioned Dr. Pècou. “It’s an providing to all of the thinkers, hustlers, and visionaries molded in hearth. For these of us who come by means of the margins, the varsity of arduous knocks isn’t metaphor—it’s alma mater. And from its halls, we emerge not damaged, however cast—good, unbowed, and blooming.”
Radio host Frank Ski served because the evening’s auctioneer, serving to safe the sale that may now assist two community-focused organizations. Jeezy’s Avenue Dreamz Basis, a 501(c)(3), works to uplift at-risk youth with applications in monetary literacy, entrepreneurship, well being and tech.
In the meantime, Dr. Pècou’s museum continues to focus on the creative legacy of the African diaspora in Atlanta.
The Johnson Lowe Gallery, recognized for showcasing internationally revered artists, hosted the invitation-only occasion, which blended Hip-Hop’s cultural weight with the reflective energy of visible artwork.
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