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Jermaine Dupri Mauldin (born September 23, 1972) is an American rapper, songwriter, record producer, music executive, and entrepreneur. [ 4 ] [ 5 ] Raised in Atlanta , Georgia , as the son of Columbia Records executive Michael Mauldin , he began his career in music production at the age of nine.
The duo was discovered at Greenbriar Mall in Atlanta in 1990 by then-18-year-old Jermaine Dupri. According to Dupri, Kelly and Smith were not pursuing a record deal and were not rappers or musicians when he met them. [6] He was impressed with their style, and Kris Kross became the first artists signed to Dupri's So So Def label.
The song was both produced and written by Jermaine Dupri and contained a sample of the Isley Brothers 1983 hit "Between the Sheets", for which the brothers and Chris Jasper were given songwriting credits.
Known as a rapper, super producer and music mogul, Jermaine Dupri is astonished that 30 years have passed since he founded his label, So So Def. Missy Elliott, the first woman in hip-hop to be ...
When Jermaine Dupri changed into his Super Bowl halftime performance outfit on Sunday, February 11, he never could have predicted the internet’s response. Dupri, 51, ...
The iconic label, founded by Jermaine Dupri in 1993 and the company behind acts like Bow Wow and Xscape, has inked a multi-year contract with Create Music Group, the two brands announced on Wednesday.
So So Def was established in 1993 as a spin-off of Dupri's production company of the same moniker, through a joint venture with Sony and Columbia.Its first act was Xscape, whose debut album was released in the fall of the same year and went Platinum—as did their 2nd and 3rd albums, released in 1995 and 1998.
Life in 1472 is the debut studio album by American producer and rapper Jermaine Dupri, released via So So Def in the United States on July 21, 1998. 1472 refers to J (being the 10th letter of the alphabet) + D (representing the 4th letter of the alphabet), and 72 (the year of Dupri's birth, 1972).