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.
From Jermaine Dupri
When I came out rapping on my record, a lot of people said, Oh, you just want to be like Puff.
We're just welcoming people to our city.
We haven't had a slew of artists, but the artists we do come out with have always had the same momentum.
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.
So So Def has been one of the most successful and consistent labels in the game in the last 10 years.
People know me, and want to know me, as a baller more than anything else.
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.
If you don't know by now, you're never going to know.
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