Jermaine Dupri

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.

But-

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

J.D.

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.