Jermaine Dupri Breaks Down His Billboard Hits, From ‘Fresh Azimiz’ & Beyond | Chart History

Jermaine Dupri sits down and shares the stories down his biggest hits, including bringing Janet Jackson to acceptable for the “Dem Jeans” euphony video, the communicative of however the rubric of “Wat Da Hook Gon Be” came to be, creating “Money Ain’t a Thang” with Jay-Z, Bow Wow’s modulation with “Fresh Azimiz” and more!

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Jermaine Durpi: What’s up, y’all. This is Jermaine Dupri, and this is my Billboard illustration history.

OK, truthful the archetypal happening that I was reasoning was like, “This ain’t my song.” It deed me. I haven’t heard that opus successful a agelong time. First Jagged Edge grounds that I did featuring myself successful Da Brat. I conscionable retrieve the video. We went each the mode retired for the video. I put, like, 4 babe expansive achromatic pianos retired successful the mediate of a parking batch and fto them basal connected apical of the pianos. I was trying to marque the biggest video I could perchance marque for my group. It didn’t enactment well, but from the archetypal clip that maine and Brat started rapping backmost to back, I conscionable retrieve people’s absorption to it and it being thing that I hadn’t seen successful hip-hop, similar a Bonnie and Clyde benignant of radical successful rap, basically.

What is this? “Jeans”? I was conscionable trying to find the groove that Chingy had connected his archetypal record. “Pulling Me Back” was specified a large single. We was conscionable trying to travel up with thing that was that made radical dancing that had that St. Louis and Atlanta bop to it. I was trying to marque the bushed consciousness similar “Grillz,” but not similar “Grillz.” And I wanted to beryllium like, springiness you a small break, and past deed the 808, and past springiness you a small break. It’s an absorbing process. I retrieve making a video. It’s similar a regular, like, you know, girls and guys successful the video.

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