61 Quotes by Jermaine Dupri

In the last five years, lyrics have resembled diaries of those who write them. I think the fans like the records that seem closer to life.

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.