I'm not afraid of taking long walks. A lot of people want to be great, but they want to cheat to get to the greatness. I'm cool with talking the walk around the block to get to where I want to go as opposed to the cheat, because the cheat has flaws.

Jermaine Dupri

My life is incredible.

Jermaine Dupri

My life is crazy sometimes.

Jermaine Dupri

Things always work when I put my heart into it, and more brands need to do the same thing.

Jermaine Dupri

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.

Jermaine Dupri

I'm the father that Bow Wow never had.

Jermaine Dupri

Following in the footsteps of Berry Gordy, I always admire what he did.

Jermaine Dupri

You make a record like 'Jump,' people are stuck in that world. They want you to keep making records like 'Jump.' People don't understand that you got to move on; you got to do something else. You have to evolve and go to something else. And most of the time, when it's time for you to move, other people are not prepared for that move.

Jermaine Dupri

I'm very good at separating things, and one of the things that I've always separated is that my business from one artist to the next has nothing to do with each other.

Jermaine Dupri

I'm not afraid of taking long walks. A lot of people want to be great, but they want to cheat to get to the greatness. I'm cool with talking the walk around the block to get to where I want to go as opposed to the cheat, because the cheat has flaws.

Jermaine Dupri

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

Jermaine Dupri

We're just welcoming people to our city.

Jermaine Dupri

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

Jermaine Dupri

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.

Jermaine Dupri

So So Def has been one of the most successful and consistent labels in the game in the last 10 years.

Jermaine Dupri

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

Jermaine Dupri

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.

Jermaine Dupri

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

Jermaine Dupri

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.

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.

Jermaine Dupri

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.

Jermaine Dupri