Jermaine Dupri Slams Usher – Jermaine Dupri is the man behind many hip-hop tunes both old and new and one of the people he helped at the start of their career was R&B star Usher.
The super producer doesn’t seem to be happy with the Raymond v Raymond star, because he wasn’t even asked to produce one track for the singer’s new album.
“Well, I didn’t really want to be executive producer of Usher’s projects after Confessions, Dupri told VIBE Magazine.
“Me as a producer, it’s kind of hard for me to go back into people’s projects when I gave you your biggest album ever. You sold more records than any other artist in this decade based on that album and now I have to ask you am I the executive producer of your next album? That seems disrespectful to me. Obviously, I’m looking at something different than everyone is looking at it – whether it’s the label, the artist, management, whoever it is.”
“I’ve had this same conversation with L.A. Reid, because I’m doing Mariah Carey’s album right now. And on her last album, I didn’t have one song on there. But I did Emancipation of Mimi and she sold more records than she sold in the last five years. What part of the game makes y’all not call me? But I’m not going to keep sticking my neck out,” he continued.
“But I don’t feel like I’m supposed to ask to produce anymore. People are supposed to come to me and tell me that I’m the executive producer. That’s why I get more kicks working with younger artists.”
Dupri is currently back working with Mariah on her forthcoming album.
