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ASCAP's 22nd Annual Rhythm & Soul Music Awards Honor Top Songwriters ...

Houston Chronicle - Found Jun. 29, 2009
Past recipients of ASCAP's Golden Note Award include Sean 'Diddy' Combs, Jermaine Dupri, Jimmy Jam & Terry Lewis, Jay-Z, Quincy Jones, LL Cool...
ASCAP's 22nd Annual Rhythm & Soul Music Awards Honor Top Songwriters ... - Reuters
ASCAP's 22nd Annual Rhythm & Soul Music Awards Honor Top Songwriters ... - PR inside
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Posted on June 29, 2009, 8:47 am

Event announcement: Jermaine Dupri DJing at Home

STLtoday.com - Found Jun. 18, 2009
Music producer Jermaine Dupri Jermaine Dupri is the celebrity guest DJ at the Star Power Marketing official launch event at 10 p.m. Friday at Home

Posted on June 18, 2009, 2:20 am

SOHH Soulful: Tatted Up! Janet Jackson Will Never Part From Jermaine ...

SOHH Blogs - Found May. 18, 2009
... haven't officially tied the knot (at least not publicly cuz you know how Janet gets down) Jermaine Dupri has made things pretty permanent with...

Posted on May 18, 2009, 12:20 pm

Jermaine Dupri Accepts The Game's Video Game Challenge

MTV - Found May. 24, 2009
The Game's team of the Patriots destroyed B-Dub's squad of choice 55-23. During the matchup, Jermaine Dupri came to the showdown to help cheer...

Posted on May 24, 2009, 6:54 am

Jermaine Dupri 'Burned' Janet Tattoo, Super Bowl '04 Case Revisited

Post Chronicle - Found May. 24, 2009
Jermaine Dupri recently took the term Worship your woman to a whole new level by getting a tattoo burned into his rib cage with Janet Jackson posing

Posted on May 24, 2009, 6:19 am

Shocking Jermaine Dupri 'Virgin Janet' Tattoo (Photos)

Post Chronicle - Found May. 23, 2009
Jermaine Dupri and Janet Jackson have been together since 2002. Jermaine Dupri recently took the term Worship your woman to a whole new level by

Posted on May 23, 2009, 10:52 am

Jermaine Dupri's love for Janet Jackson now permanent

AccessAtlanta - Found Jun. 14, 2009
Jermaine Dupri now permanently carries his devotion to Janet Jackson close to his heart ? or, rather, just opposite it.

Posted on June 14, 2009, 7:17 am

Jermaine Dupri's 21st Century Rat Pack

AccessAtlanta - Found Jun. 9, 2009
Dupri likes it. SONIA MURRAY Atlanta music mogul Jermaine Dupri. ? CD reviews ? Find a concert During weekly trips to Las Vegas, Dupri has...

Posted on June 9, 2009, 5:16 am

B.E.T. You Havent Heard This: Jermaine Dupri & Johnta Austin

Bet.com - Found Apr. 7, 2009
Where?s The Love????So if you follow Jermaine Dupri?s YouTube page, you?re probably already aware that he and his Oceans 6 crew are diligently

Posted on April 7, 2009, 2:40 am

Celeb forecast: Vegas goes to the pros

Las Vegas Weekly - Found 18 hours ago
Meanwhile, perennial Privé guest DJ Jermaine Dupri will once again do his thing at the Planet Hollywood, and Warren G will host over at...
Damon, Affleck gamble for charity - Times of India
Celebrities flock to McFadden's VIP Green Room during Ante Up for ... - Examiner.com
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Posted on July 4, 2009, 2:30 am

Jermaine Dupri Biography

Jermaine Dupri
extracted from Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia, distributed under the GNU Free Documentation License

Jermaine Dupri
Birth name Jermaine Dupri Mauldin
Also known as J.D.
Born September 23, 1972 (1972-09-23) (age 36)
Asheville, North Carolina, USA
Genre(s) Hip hop
Occupation(s) Record producer, songwriter, rapper
Years active 1992 - present
Label(s) So So Def Recordings, Island Urban Music, TAG Records1

Jermaine Dupri, also known as JD, (born September 23, 1972) 2 , is an American record producer, rapper and Grammy winning songwriter. He is also known as Bow Wow's mentor.

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Dupri discovered the child rap duo Kris Kross in 1991 at a mall in Atlanta, Georgia.

Dupri worked on various other Mariah Carey songs including My Baby Stay Baby in 1998 and Always Be My Baby in 1996.

So So Def, a label specializing in Southern hip hop, Contemporary Soul, and R&B music, was originally distributed through Arista Records and Sony Music Entertainment.

He appeared on a special "Hip Hop Stars" Edition of The Weakest Link, being the first one voted off.

JD became involved in a dispute against Eminem and Dr. Dre in 2002. This beef is mainly between Dr Dre and Jermaine Dupri, but Eminem has stuck up for Dre, and along with Xzibit, joined the beef against Jermaine Dupri. It started when Jermaine Dupri claimed that he was the best producer in the game, better than Dre and Timbaland during an interview with XXL magazine. Dre retaliated in Eminem's song, "Say What You Say", saying: "Been here longer than anyone in the game And I ain't got to lie about my age (But what about Jermaine?) F**k Jermaine! He don't belong speakin mine or Timbaland's name And don't think, I don't read your lil' interviews, and see what you're sayin I'm a giant, and I ain't gotta move 'til I'm provoked When I see you I'ma step on you and not even know it You midget, Mini-Me with a bunch of little Mini-Yous runnin around your backyard swimmin pools Over 80 million records sold And I ain't have to do it with ten or eleven-year-olds."3 At the end of the song, Timbaland can be heard saying "Yo, this's Timbaland. Tell him I said 'suck my dick'" and Eminem follows it up with collaboration diss songs with xzibit such as "My name" and "Grindin" in xzibit's Restless album

In 2003, Dupri was appointed president of Arista Black Music and moved So So Def and its artists there. In 2004, Dupri was appointed President of Urban Music at Virgin Records and moved So So Def over to Virgin. Meanwhile, Dupri also expanded his business ventures, buying into Chicago-based distillery 3 Vodka and opening his own boutique restaurant, Cafe Dupri.

In 2004 and 2005, Dupri worked with R&B singers Usher and Mariah Carey on their releases, Confessions and The Emancipation of Mimi. He also produced the songs "Burn", "Confessions, Pt. 2" and the remix featuring Kanye West, Shyne, and Twista, and "My Boo" with Usher and "It's like That", "We Belong Together", "Shake It Off", "Get Your Number", and "Don't Forget About Us" with Carey. He produced the track "Radio" for young R&B singer Jarvis, but didn't release the album because his label was in transition with the distributor. He has also produced singles with J-Kwon ("Tipsy"citation needed) and Dem Franchize Boyz. In addition he has worked with St. Louis rappers, Nelly, Chingy, & St. Lunatics.

Dupri's 2005 single, "Gotta Getcha" featuring Johntá Austin, is featured on the July 2005 release Young, Fly & Flashy, Vol. 1. The album is a compilation of tracks produced by and featuring Dupri. So far, "Gotta Getcha" has peaked at #60 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100. The controversial music video for the song features his girlfriend, singer Janet Jackson, in an x-rated peep show club. On August 9, 2006, Dupri was listed among the top ten richest people in hip hop.4 He continues to work with artists including Jay-Z ("Money Ain't a Thang"), Ludacris ("Welcome to Atlanta"), and Warren G ("Havin' Thangs"). He has released Daz Dillinger's album, So So Gangsta, in 2006. It includes production by Dupri, Scott Storch, and Daz.

Dupri also worked with Jackson on her album titled 20 Y.O., released September 26, 2006, which was not as successful as much as Jackson's previous albums. The album's commercial underperformance led Dupri, who accused Virgin of improperly handling its urban releases, to leave his position at Virgin Urban Music. He became the head of Island Records' urban division instead; So So Def releases are now issued through Island Urban Music. Janet Jackson followed Dupri from Virgin to Island as well. As of March 2008, his So So Def/Island Urban roster includes himself, Jagged Edge, Johntá Austin, and Rocko.

Singer Monica's album, The Makings of Me, features production from Jermaine Dupri with the lead single "Everytime tha Beat Drop". He has also produced multiple tracks on Jay-Z's concept album American Gangster.

On October 16, 2007, The Making of a Music Mogul, an autobiography that charts his career as a producer was released. The book was co-written with Samantha Marshall and released in hardcover by Simon & Schuster's Atria imprint. The New York Post reported on February 28, 2008 that Dupri proposed to Janet Jackson, and that the couple are busy planning their wedding as well as recording a handful of songs for her new album Discipline.

He was featured on Nelly's new single "Stepped On My J'z", which features himself and Ciara. The single's video debuted on June 11 on Access Granted.

More recently, he is involved in a Hip-Hop/R&B Supergroup, known as Oceans 7.

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