Quotes by Jermaine Dupri

• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• If you don't know by now, you're never going to know.
• 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.
• 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.
• All the records I've made have pretty much been big club turntable records. You need to feel the rhythm.
• Because I was in Atlanta, people didn't realize I'm one of the real forefathers in the game.
• 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.