Words matter. These are the best Jermaine Dupri Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
I’m first-generation money in my family.
Things always work when I put my heart into it, and more brands need to do the same thing.
‘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.
When I came out rapping on my record, a lot of people said, Oh, you just want to be like Puff.
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.
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.
My idol is Quincy Jones.
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.
As an employee, you can’t work for someone forever.
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.
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.
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.
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.
The majority of my records that become big records are usually done in one day.
My life is crazy sometimes.
My life is incredible.
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.
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.
I’m the father that Bow Wow never had.
I’ve been making beats since I was, like, 12.
A person like myself will keep challenging to see if I can keep doing it over and over again.
Teach yourself from others’ mistakes.
