Top 15 Quotes by Jermaine Dupri

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.

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

All the records I've made have pretty much been big club turntable records. You need to feel the rhythm.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

We haven't had a slew of artists, but the artists we do come out with have always had the same momentum.