Jermaine Dupri

So I just kept pushing, working, trying to create artists and create music and bring more and more people to the city and show how beautiful this city is.

And so I'm happy to see everybody here.

today, because this is what I wanted.

I wanted this.

So that's that.

What's my formula for making songs?

Anybody here that want to make music?

Oh, over here on the left side, somebody is screaming.

OK, so my idea of making music is that once you get a hit,

you have to follow whatever it was that you did to get to that hit.

So, like, the first time that I did Jump, I don't know how I made it, but I made it, and you guys liked it.

And then I started tracing back what I did to get to that song, and I realized that, you know, you can't ... I couldn't really ...

just do exactly what I did to get to that song.

But I had to find the little different things that the crowd liked or the people liked or what was really, really interesting about the song.

So say, for instance, like with Jump, the hook over and over again, Mac Daddy will make you ... See what I'm saying?

Yeah.

So what I had to figure out is, how do I make other songs

that have that same lasting impression on people.

It's almost like baking a cake.

I know I keep saying babies and baking cakes, but anyway.