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ALOHA! PLEASE LET ME KNOW HOW YOU FEEL ABOUT WHAT I'M DOING 👍🏾 I APPRECIATE YOU!THERE ARE TIMES WHEN I DO DIFFERENT THINGS ON THE PODCAST. I TRY TO GIVE YOU A NEW FLAVOR, A NEW IDENTITY, A NEW CONSCIOUSNESS. DURING THE FIRST TWO WEEKS OF OCTOBER, MY WIFE AND I WENT ON VACATION, AND DURING THAT TIME I WAS THINKING WHAT OTHER WAYS OF GREAT MUSIC, CONTENT AND VIBE CAN I GIVE YOU. SINCE I’VE ALWAYS BEEN A FAN OF PRODUCERS, I THOUGHT ABOUT IT, AND I SAID, “LET’S GIVE A SALUTE TO THE PRODUCERS”. NOW, IT’S 50 YEARS OF HIP HOP AND I STILL HAVE TO GIVE MY SALUTE TO THE HIP-HOP PRODUCERS….BUT WHAT ABOUT ALL THE OTHERS? IF YOU KNOW ME, AND YOU’VE BEEN LISTENING TO THE SHOWS, YOU KNOW THAT I’VE DONE SEVERAL EPISODES ON THE GENIUS AND LEGACY OF QUINCY JONES. MOST OF WHAT HE’S DONE HAS BEEN AS A PRODUCER AND AND ARRANGER. BUT FOR SURE, I HAVE OTHER PRODUCERS THAT I’M VERY FOND OF AND I APPRECIATE AND ADMIRE. SOOOOOO, THAT’S WHERE I’M GOING TO GO ON THE NEXT COUPLE OF EPISODES, I’VE DECIDED TO CALL THESE EPISODES, ‘PRODUCERS OF A LIFETIME’ AND IN THIS EPISODE, I GIVE A SALUTE TO THE MAN SIMPLY KNOWN AS ‘JD’ - THATS JERMAINE DUPRI, FOUNDER OF SO SO DEF RECORDS. IN 2023, JD AND SO SO DEF CELEBRATE 30 YEARS. JERMAINE DUPRI WAS A YOUNG TEENAGER WHEN HE WAS A DANCER, BUSTING MOVES FOR WHODINI, AND OPENING FOR RUN DMC, GRANDMASTER FLASH, DURING THE FRESH FEST IN THE MID 80'S. FAST FORWARD TO 1991, HE'S A BUDDING MUSIC PRODUCER WHEN HE DISCOVERS TWO EXCITING YOUNG RAPPERS AT A LOCAL MALL. HE WOULD CALL THEM 'KRISS KROSS' AND THEY WOULD CHANGE TO HIP-HOP (AND FASHION!) LANDSCAPE. SINCE JD BEGAN HIS LABEL IN 1993, CALLED SO SO DEF, HE HAS WRITTEN SONGS AND BUILT DOPE, SLICK, THUMPING BEATS AND GROOVES FOR ARTISTS SUCH AS USHER, MARIAH CAREY, JANET JACKSON, ALICIA KEYS, TLC, BOW WOW, JUST TO NAME A FEW. NOMINATED FOR 12 GRAMMYS (WINNING 1), JERMAINE DUPRI'S TASTE FOR THE STREET BLENDS WELL WITH SOPHISTICATED LYRICS OF LOVE, HEARTBREAK, SACRIFICE AND LONGING. THIS EPISODE SALUTES HIS DEDICATION TO HIS CRAFT AND ALLOWS YOU TO GO DEEP INTO HIS UNCANNY ABILITY TO CREATE DOPE TRACKS FOR THE CLUB AND FOR THE BEDROOM! ENJOY AS I GIVE YOU ONE OF MY PRODUCERS OF A LIFETIME - BLAZE STREET MUSIC CELEBRATES JERMAINE DUPRI AND 30 YEARS OF SO SO DEF RECORDS. Call my studio hotline: 808-343-1943, leave me a message!Please give me your thoughts, ideas, comments & questions: IG: @cjaaybeats; X: @djceejaay; Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/carl.r.johnsonjr1; You Tube: @djceejaay