Jermaine Dupri Quotations

If you don't know by now, you're never going to know.

When I came out rapping on my record, a lot of people said, Oh, you just want to be like Puff.

Because I was in Atlanta, people didn't realize I'm one of the real forefathers in the game.

People know me, and want to know me, as a baller more than anything else.

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.

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.

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 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.

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.