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I'd go dance at talent shows, and because I was young I had the upper hand on a lot of other crews. People thought it was cute. I used that to my advantage.
Jermaine Dupri / Record Producer
Cute
Smile
Advantage
Hands
People
Upper Hand
Upper
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I'm the father that Bow Wow never had.
Jermaine Dupri / Record Producer
Bow
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We're just welcoming people to our city.
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Welcoming
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I've been making beats since I was, like, 12.
Jermaine Dupri / Record Producer
Beats
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If you don't know by now, you're never going to know.
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Ifs
Knows
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Ciara’s new single is a complete rip-off of Usher’s ‘U Got It Bad.’
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Following in the footsteps of Berry Gordy, I always admire what he did.
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Footsteps
Berry
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People know me, and want to know me, as a baller more than anything else.
Jermaine Dupri / Record Producer
Ballers
People
Want
Me People Anything
Me People Know
Anything Else
More Than Anything
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Things always work when I put my heart into it, and more brands need to do the same thing.
Jermaine Dupri / Record Producer
Brands
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Because I was in Atlanta, people didn't realize I'm one of the real forefathers in the game.
Jermaine Dupri / Record Producer
Atlanta
Forefathers
Games
Real
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When I came out rapping on my record, a lot of people said, Oh, you just want to be like Puff.
Jermaine Dupri / Record Producer
People
Puff
Rap
Rapping
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In the Ferrari or Jaguar, switchin' four lanes Wit' the top down screaming out money ain't a thang
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Ferrari
Hip Hop
Top Down
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So So Def has been one of the most successful and consistent labels in the game in the last 10 years.
Jermaine Dupri / Record Producer
Consistent
Games
Labels
Successful
Years
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We haven't had a slew of artists, but the artists we do come out with have always had the same momentum.
Jermaine Dupri / Record Producer
Momentum
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All the records I've made have pretty much been big club turntable records. You need to feel the rhythm.
Jermaine Dupri / Record Producer
Clubs
Needs
Records
Rhythm
Turntable
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Some people see Jermaine Dupri as a producer, and they don't really know what the songwriting skills are.
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Songwriting
People See Know
Producer
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I'm one of those guys a lot of people watch, imitate, and then make it seem like they were the ones who did it first.
Jermaine Dupri / Record Producer
Firsts
Guy
People
People Who First
Imitate
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I stopped writing lyrics down on paper after me and Jay-Z did 'Money In the Bank.' They're something I just hold in my mind.
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Bank
Money Mind Me
Jay-Z
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I have the weirdest career in hip-hop, and I say that because I started so young. I started So So Def when I was 17 years old.
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Weirdest
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I was the youngest producer to have a No. 1 record when Kris Kross first came out, and that was a record I held for I don't know how long.
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Producer
Youngest
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People are just really overreacting. It's just feel good music. We at Virgin are in no way promoting sex or whatever these media outlets continue to print.
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Media
People
Sex
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I'm very good at separating things, and one of the things that I've always separated is that my business from one artist to the next has nothing to do with each other.
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Separated
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People always ask me how long somebody can last as long as I've been lasting and continue to keep doing it, so I figured that people didn't really know how to do that.
Jermaine Dupri / Record Producer
Lasting
Lasts
Long
People
Me Long People
Long Me People
Figured
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I've always wanted to be mentioned in the same sentence or at the same time that you say Quincy Jones or you say Stevie Wonder. I never thought that could possibly ever happen.
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Stevie
Sentence
Stevie Wonder
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My father was a promoter of Fresh Fest, and they needed an opening act. He got me a slot as a dancer. We tried it out the first time in Atlanta and the crowd went crazy. I was the opening clown.
Jermaine Dupri / Record Producer
Atlanta
Clown
Crazy
Father
Opening
Time Me Father
Time Me Crazy
Time Father Me
Opening Act
Promoter
Slot
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I go to clubs and if I notice the DJs are playing the records faster, then I'll push the beats a little on the next record I make. A lot of people don't know how to watch out for things like that.
Jermaine Dupri / Record Producer
Beats
Clubs
Djs
Faster
People
Records
Watches
People Know Go
People Know Things
Notice
Push
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They keep the song as street as it needs to be. It's got a good catchy hook where it can do what it needs to do on the radio, but they keep the song street where it will keep credibility in the hood.
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Catchy
Credibility
Hood
Radio
Good Where Keep
Good Keep Will
Street
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I wanted to feel like an artist for once in my life. I wanted to use other producers for respect, to let them know that I listen to other people's music and that I'm just not out here on my own page.
Jermaine Dupri / Record Producer
Artist
People
Producers
Use
Out Here
Page
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'Welcome to Atlanta' was a song I wanted to do on my first album. The idea was for me and Outkast to do it, but I could never come up with a beat for us to do it. Outkast beats and my beats were very different.
Jermaine Dupri / Record Producer
Atlanta
Beats
Welcome
Me Song Never
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I'm not afraid of taking long walks. A lot of people want to be great, but they want to cheat to get to the greatness. I'm cool with talking the walk around the block to get to where I want to go as opposed to the cheat, because the cheat has flaws.
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Greatness
Walks
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Before I was not in the television cameras every 5 minutes, I wasn't as visible, but this year I plan on being more visible to ensure that Virgin Rap Division does not lose. Although I am a very low key person, I am competitive, and with every ounce of my spirit, I will ensure that this label is taken seriously.
Jermaine Dupri / Record Producer
Rap
Taken
Years
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You make a record like 'Jump,' people are stuck in that world. They want you to keep making records like 'Jump.' People don't understand that you got to move on; you got to do something else. You have to evolve and go to something else. And most of the time, when it's time for you to move, other people are not prepared for that move.
Jermaine Dupri / Record Producer
Evolve
Time World People
Time World Keep
Jump
Move On
Something Else
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The thing I'm going through is probably like the same thing that Little Richard and all these other artists go through, that I hear about them, saying, 'Oh damn, you ain't gonna give me nothing till I die,' ... I feel like I'm one of those type of great people that just going to have to wait till it's all over with for people to really sit around and talk about it.
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Artist
Damn You
People
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