Jermaine Dupri
π€ SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
Yeah.
Reasonable Doubt wasn't a big album in Atlanta.
It was a, you know, critically acclaimed rap album if you was into rap.
Yeah.
I mean, even up here.
The city of Atlanta wasn't into rap music like that.
So for me to pick him, even here, when I went to do that record and I went to Sony and I told them that's the record I wanted to be basically the first single, they didn't even understand why I was going with Jay because his momentum wasn't what they thought the momentum needed to be for it to be my record for a single.
Stay the executive producer of 8701 or keep your entire remix catalog?
um state executive producer 8701 that takes away a lot of remixes we love them it does but damn you know getting rid of all the jd remixes 8701 is my favorite usher album but yeah that's a lot of people that's a lot of remixes i got throwing remixes away and get more work off 87 that's a great way to look at yeah that's a great i'm looking at the fan but yeah yeah yeah that makes sense um jd the artist or jd the businessman
the businessman.
I never even wanted to be an artist like that.
I mean, well, I did when I was younger.
And then when I started writing for Brat,
I just accidentally got on Funklify just because I was writing raps and was like, listen, you should do this and you should do that.
And I'm going to do this part.
And it was like a back and forth.
Like, I didn't know what was going to happen with the song.
And then it just happened to be like the song that took off for her and I'm on it.