Vault: Jermaine Dupri Joins The Show

Summary

The Bert Show: Vault – Jermaine Dupri Joins The Show

Date: January 9, 2026
Podcast: The Bert Show
Host: Bert Show Cast (Bert, Kristin, Abby, Cassie, Tommy & others)
Guest: Jermaine Dupri

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Episode Theme & Overview

This episode welcomes iconic producer, entrepreneur, and artist Jermaine Dupri into the studio for a candid, comedic, and insightful conversation. Dubbed a “Vault” episode, it dives into Dupri’s music career, collaboration habits, behind-the-scenes stories, Atlanta’s culture and music scene, healthy living, and his ventures beyond music—including his new health-minded restaurant, Café Dupri. The tone is friendly and playful, with plenty of jokes and personal anecdotes sprinkled throughout.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. Night Owl Routine & Studio Life

• Jermaine’s Sleep Patterns:

  • Dupri jokes about staying up late for work and how his “early” bedtime is still late by normal standards:
    • “I went to sleep early so I could get here… Like four last night.” (01:40)
    • On truly late nights: “If I wasn’t coming here, probably like six o’clock.” (02:46)
  • Reflects on his younger years:
    • “I used to go, like, two days in a row all night… I’m getting a little older, so I can’t do it like that.” (02:22)

• Working with Artists:

  • Currently working on a new Jagged Edge album; collaborating with various artists is a staple of his career.
  • On how artists connect with him:
    • “Go to the bank. That’s the first thing.” (02:58) – highlighting his status and demand.
    • “Jessica Simpson sent a message to me about two weeks ago that she wanted me to work on her new album.” (03:45)

2. Creative Motivation & Studio Decor

• The “You Make Me Wanna” Wall:
  • Dupri clarifies he doesn’t have photos of other producers for motivation, just “a motivation wall... It’s women on my wall.” (04:33)
  • Originated during the recording of Usher’s “You Make Me Wanna”:
    • “We was looking at the wall saying, she make me wanna… Now it’s like 20 girls on one wall.” (04:37–04:58)
  • Janet Jackson, his girlfriend, is included on the wall, naturally.

3. Relationship with Janet Jackson & Celebrity Privacy

• On Their Relationship’s Public Profile:
  • Dupri prefers to keep things low-key:
    • “No, I don’t think you have to [publicly confirm the relationship]… At some point, who cares?” (06:07)
    • “Dating is no different in the entertainment world than it is with anybody else.” (06:56)
  • On avoiding drama:
    • “If I have a fight with my girl or something like that, it’s over.” (08:05)
    • “All that arguing and going back and forth, that’s not me.” (08:24)
  • They have a long friendship dating back to the “Criss Cross days.” (08:51)

4. Behind the Scenes: Celebrity Parties & Atlanta’s Social Scene

• Kentucky Derby Memories:
  • Jermaine and Usher attended the Derby together, joking about mingling with stars like Michael Jordan and the chaos of events.
  • Fun jabs over rental cars:
    • “Oh, Grand Am, never. What does that look like?” (10:28)
    • Co-hosts laugh over the difference between Grand Ams and luxury cars.

5. New Projects and Entrepreneurial Ventures

• Midtown Music Urban Stage:

  • Dupri curates the entire Urban Stage for Atlanta’s Midtown Music festival:
    • “I put together the artists, the groups that’s gonna be there… All the days, every day.” (11:49)
  • Artists listed for Friday night: The Game, Ciara, Bobby Valentino, and Black Eyed Peas on Saturday (12:04).

• Recent Music Production Work:

  • On Mariah Carey’s comeback:
    • “She sold a lot of records and I did all them first songs. I’m excited about that.” (13:13)

• Café Dupri:

  • New healthy eatery at 3135 Piedmont Road, open “till like 22 hours a day.”
    • “It’s gonna be like more of a healthier type of place for people to eat… People that want to eat cleaner and looking out for, you know, just look, watching they health.” (14:07)
  • Motivation: cutting back on unhealthy food due to the demands of his career:
    • “When I stopped this, I started this, like, three years ago. I just stopped eating red meat and drinking sodas all the time.” (15:03)

6. Personal Wellness & Lifestyle Shifts

• On Health:
  • Stresses the importance of healthy eating for productivity:
    • “If you eating bad like that… you’re just so sluggish…” (15:11)
  • No big turning point, but hangovers were a factor:
    • “I had a hangover one day and I just did not know what to do.” (16:00)

7. Atlanta, Southern Anthems & City Culture

• “Welcome to Atlanta” Theme:

  • “I made ‘Welcome to Atlanta’ for everybody in Atlanta… Atlanta’s too vibrant not to have a theme song.” (17:47)
  • Frustrated it doesn’t get played as much in Atlanta venues:
    • “They should play that hook at everything that’s going on in the city.” (18:08)

• Atlanta’s Music Scene:

  • Wants the city’s reputation uplifted:
    • “I would hope one day… that I would do another record like that… Atlanta is too vibrant not to have a theme song.”
  • Suggests branding Atlanta as “the new Motown”:
    • “It should be really titled the New Motown… we got the music business unlocked on every side.” (19:19)

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• On work-life balance: “Go to the bank. That’s the first thing.” (02:58)
• On creative motivation: “You make me want a wall… Now it’s like 20 girls on one wall.” (04:37–04:58)
• On relationships in the spotlight:
  • “Some people get off doing that, like that Nick and Jessica thing. I don’t think you have to do that.” (06:07)
  • “If I have a fight with my girl or something like that, it’s over.” (08:05)
• On healthy living: “If you eating bad like that… it just don’t work right. It’s just crash.” (15:11)
• On Atlanta’s music: “Atlanta’s too vibrant not to have a theme song… it’s not about me, it’s saying welcome to Atlanta.” (17:47)

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Important Segment Timestamps

• 01:32 – Guest Intro: Jermaine Dupri arrives in studio
• 02:05 – Discussing late hours, projects, and artist collaborations
• 04:24 – On the “You Make Me Wanna” motivation wall
• 06:07 – On public relationships and dating Janet Jackson
• 08:51 – Jermaine discusses meeting Janet for the first time
• 11:31 – New projects: Midtown Music Urban Stage
• 13:13 – Discussing music production for Mariah Carey’s album
• 13:48 – Café Dupri announcement & healthy living discussion
• 17:44 – The story behind “Welcome to Atlanta” and Atlanta’s cultural identity

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Episode Tone & Style

The conversation is authentic, humorous, and relaxed, filled with jokes, playful jabs, and real-life stories. Jermaine Dupri is candid about his music, entrepreneurial moves, relationships, and views on Atlanta, all while engaging with the hosts’ good-natured ribbing.

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For New Listeners

This episode is an engaging dive into Jermaine Dupri’s world. Listeners get behind-the-scenes stories on the music industry, celebrity relationships, Atlanta’s vibrancy, and the necessity of personal health in a demanding career. Jermaine’s wit and realness shine, making it a must-listen both for fans of Southern music and anyone curious about how a star lives—and eats—in Atlanta.

Transcript

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[Show Host (Slash)]

You're on the Virt Show. Jermaine Dupree in studio what is up dude?

[Jermaine Dupri]

What's up?

[Show Host (Slash)]

Look at you at 8:13. Have you even gone to sleep yet?

[Jermaine Dupri]

Yeah, I went to sleep. Yeah I went to sleep early so I could get here.

[Show Host (Slash)]

You didn't need to take the Adderall and stay home.

[Jermaine Dupri]

I would have needed to take that.

[Show Host (Slash)]

Like what is your typical night Like? I'm assuming that you are burning the midnight oil most nights.

[Jermaine Dupri]

Oh yeah. To at least. I mean I went to like four last night anyway.

[Co-host/Interviewer]

So four and that's going to bed early.

[Jermaine Dupri]

Yeah, that's Early.

[Co-host/Interviewer]

All right.

[Show Host (Slash)]

Is that working or is that playing?

[Jermaine Dupri]

That's working.

[Show Host (Slash)]

And what were you working on?

[Jermaine Dupri]

Jagged Edge, I think. Yeah, we working on a new album.

[Show Host (Slash)]

They got so many lined up, you're like, I can't remember who it is.

[Jermaine Dupri]

They wasn't there. So that's why I couldn't remember. But, yeah.

[Co-host/Interviewer]

Are you a natural night owl? Is that why you're working at night, or does it just seem quieter? Like the phone's not ringing, the BlackBerry's not going on?

[Jermaine Dupri]

I used to be worse. I used to be worse than. I used to go, like, two days in a row all night. That used to be like, my thing to go, like two days in a row.

[Co-host/Interviewer]

Just get in a groove. You just don't want to stop.

[Jermaine Dupri]

No, that used to just be my thing. I don't know. Just go. I'm getting a little older, so I can't do it like that.

[Co-host/Interviewer]

Now, if four is going to bed early, then. Now, what would have been the average time that you go to bed?

[Jermaine Dupri]

When? Last night, if I wasn't coming here, probably like six o'. Clock. Okay.

[Show Host (Slash)]

Is that right?

[Jermaine Dupri]

Yeah. All right.

[Show Host (Slash)]

Jermaine Dupri on all the hits. Q100 in the bird show. How does the whole thing work? Like, if somebody wants to work with Jermaine Dupri, what are the channels you have to go through?

[Jermaine Dupri]

Go to the bank. That's the first thing. That's the first thing. I mean, you know, it depends on what. What type of artist and, you know, if I. If I want to work with you, that's pretty much it. It's not really.

[Co-host/Interviewer]

What percentage of artists do you seek out versus who seek you out like that you end up working with?

[Jermaine Dupri]

Ooh, it's probably they. Probably. They all find me now at this point. I mean, if it's established artists, most of the time I'm just working with all my new artists, though, say my new artists. But my artists, you know, Bow Wows, the Anthony's and all the other people that we usually work with, with the.

[Show Host (Slash)]

Established artists, what do they do? If you have no contact with them beforehand and they just have this idea that they want to work with Jermaine Dupree, what do they do? Leave a message for you on your voicemail?

[Jermaine Dupri]

I mean, they sent a message out to somebody, I don't know, like, Jessica Simpson sent a message to me about a month, about two weeks ago that she wanted to work. That she wanted me to work on her new album.

[Show Host (Slash)]

Now, this is the part that I'm really Interested in. When you say she sent a message out, did she make that call herself?

[Jermaine Dupri]

I don't know.

[Show Host (Slash)]

Smoke signals?

[Jermaine Dupri]

Yeah, smoke. I don't know where it came from. Somebody called me and told me that it got to my office some kind of way.

[Co-host/Interviewer]

Are you sure that's about work? Cause her and Nick lachey are having all sorts of problems.

[Show Host (Slash)]

Yeah.

[Jermaine Dupri]

She come to my studio, my boys at the studio might attack her since they know that she might have a little problem over there.

[Show Host (Slash)]

On all his Q100.

[Co-host/Interviewer]

I read somewhere that you have pictures of other producers hanging in your studio that motivates you to work.

[Jermaine Dupri]

Is that true? No way. I got a motivation wall, though.

[Co-host/Interviewer]

What's that?

[Jermaine Dupri]

It's women on my wall. It's a lot of women.

[Show Host (Slash)]

You got, like, the most beautiful woman.

[Jermaine Dupri]

It's like, it's. You make me want a window. Oh, a wall. It's called the. You make me want a wall. Okay. And it was created, like, a long time ago, like back when we did the Usher record. You make me wanna. That's what it came from. Like, we was looking at the wall saying, she make me wanna. She make me wanna. All right, so.

[Co-host/Interviewer]

And it's still there.

[Jermaine Dupri]

And it was only three or four girls at that time. So then the wall just became like the great you make me wanna wall. Now. It's like 20 girls on one wall. And then it's like a super exclusive wall on the other side.

[Co-host/Interviewer]

Who's on it?

[Jermaine Dupri]

We have to know the girls that's on the wall. It just. I don't even know they names. It's just like different girls that I see in magazines and different things like that that just really. They pictures look right. I think in my. After, you know, after I start recording, I'm gonna be like a photographer or something.

[Show Host (Slash)]

Oh, I think it's just getting creepy now. I think it just got creepy, man.

[Jermaine Dupri]

I'm gonna be a photographer. I like, you know, I'm taking just good, nice pictures up there.

[Show Host (Slash)]

So what does Janet say when she's there and she's looking at all these other women?

[Jermaine Dupri]

She's on the wall. She's on the wall? Yeah.

[Co-host/Interviewer]

She better be on the wall.

[Jermaine Dupri]

She on the wall. Come to the studio. They don't make the wall. That's really been pissed off, like on that wall. So. Yeah.

[Show Host (Slash)]

Have you ever publicly just. I mean. Cause everybody sort of knows that you and Janet Jackson are dating. I mean, but have you ever publicly said, yes, we are a couple?

[Jermaine Dupri]

No, I don't think you have to do that. Like you don't. I mean, I don't know. Some people get off doing that, like that Nick and Jessica thing. I don't think you have to do that. Cause it's like, I mean, at some point, like, who cares? You know what I mean? Like, everybody cares. Are you kidding me? I don't know. I don't know. I mean, I think that's how I think. Like, at some point, like, okay, you seen somebody together, you seen them together. Okay, so what you think if you.

[Co-host/Interviewer]

Never come out and publicly say it like that? Because obviously Nick and Jessica come out and they say it, and then they do a TV show together and they put it in everybody's face. So the minute they have an argument, every cover is, you know, like, they're breaking up, they're divorced, he's buying another house. But if you. If you just keep it under the radar and you keep it, you know, quiet or whatever, then do you think the tabloids. Not necessarily keep it quiet, but they're just like, well, we're gonna leave it alone, you know?

[Jermaine Dupri]

No, I think. I mean, I think the tabloids, they gonna always try to be in your business no matter what. I mean, that's how the magazine works as far as us paying attention to the magazine. That's why we look at it, to see what's going on in people's lives. But I think. I mean, if you. The subject, most of the time, you don't even really pay attention to the fact that you should promote it. Like, I think every time I see somebody on TV with somebody, I think they dating. And I just assume and keep my, you know, keep it going. Like, if they are, they are. If they not, they not. I don't know. I don't know. I mean, dating is no different than in the entertainment world than it is with anybody else. If I seen you leave here tonight with somebody, I'm gonna think, oh, look at this girl he got with him.

[Show Host (Slash)]

Everybody wants to be up in your business, though. Especially because you got two high profile celebrities dating each other. Everybody's interested in that.

[Jermaine Dupri]

I mean. But I guess it ain't no different, though. I mean, I guess I want to. I mean, you know, I guess if people want to know. But like I said without saying it, it don't really mean nothing. Like, you know it if you don't know it. Now, you stupid.

[Show Host (Slash)]

You say it's no different than any other relationship. So tell us about the last fight that Janet and you had.

[Jermaine Dupri]

We ain't never had no fight. We like Homebo. We don't do that. If we have a fight. I ain't the type of dude that had no fight with no girl. If I have a fight with my girl or something like that, it's over.

[Show Host (Slash)]

You guys have never had a dis. Never yelled at each other.

[Jermaine Dupri]

Nah, it don't go like. It can't go like that. Not with me. If it go like that, it's over.

[Show Host (Slash)]

Really? First argument, it's over.

[Jermaine Dupri]

Yeah. Cause I don't have patience for all that. All that arguing and going back and forth. Like, that's not. Like that ain't me. Like, if I gotta do that, it's over. Huh?

[Co-host/Interviewer]

I wanna know how you guys met. I wanna know how the love sparked in the first place.

[Jermaine Dupri]

Oh, I do too. No, nah, we just was friends. We've been friends for a minute, you know what I mean? Like a long time. And we just was talking, kicking it, hanging out.

[Co-host/Interviewer]

When's the first time you guys met in person?

[Jermaine Dupri]

Oh, long time ago. I can't remember, but it was crisscross days. Really? Wow. Really?

[Show Host (Slash)]

We saw your picture in the paper this week at the Kentucky Derby.

[Jermaine Dupri]

Yeah.

[Show Host (Slash)]

Hanging out with Michael Jordan. Yeah, Jeff was there for that also.

[Jermaine Dupri]

Jeff. He was there.

[Co-host/Interviewer]

Did you go to the sort of. Did you go to the. Did you go to the Barnstable Brown thing? Yeah, yeah, I stood outside of that.

[Jermaine Dupri]

Oh, yeah. Somebody would recognize him. Like, he was outside with Terry Reed.

[Show Host (Slash)]

She couldn't get in. She couldn't get in.

[Jermaine Dupri]

That's what Tyrone say.

[Show Host (Slash)]

She couldn't get in. She had to make a call. See, when you show up, they let you in, ter.

[Jermaine Dupri]

Oh, yeah, that's my girls. They're my girls. They. I go down there every year.

[Co-host/Interviewer]

Yeah, we. We went up this year and, you know, we had a chance to buy tickets to that, and I was like, no, like, who's really going to be there?

[Jermaine Dupri]

So you missed out.

[Co-host/Interviewer]

We were having dinner right around the corner, and I said, well, let's just drive up there. So we drive up and we park and we walk up, and just as we pull up, we almost get run over by Usher and his caravan of SUVs. And he jumps out, and then it's like Tori Spelling, Michael Jordan. Then I get the paper the next day. There's a picture of you there with Usher.

[Jermaine Dupri]

And I'm like, yeah, me and Usher came together. So he got ran over by us. You got.

[Co-host/Interviewer]

You got lost in his 11 security guards?

[Jermaine Dupri]

Nah, we didn't have that much security. It was just me and him. We just got. It was just Me and him, we went up there together.

[Co-host/Interviewer]

And so, yes, there's some.

[Show Host (Slash)]

I'm just gonna call you out. You make it sound like two high school students just looking for the party. I think it's around here somewhere.

[Jermaine Dupri]

Just driving around, we went. I mean, like, this was Usher's first time going.

[Co-host/Interviewer]

You know what I think I said? Didn't you park your rental Grand Am right behind me down the block?

[Jermaine Dupri]

Oh, Grand Am, never. What does that look like?

[Show Host (Slash)]

He's got the fear, this guy.

[Jermaine Dupri]

Oh, God, the Grand Am. No. Did you see the trucks in the front yard, though? For real? You was there?

[Co-host/Interviewer]

Yeah. The big old pickup trucks?

[Jermaine Dupri]

Yeah, we gonna get some of them.

[Co-host/Interviewer]

Yeah, those are big and flashy.

[Jermaine Dupri]

Yeah, we getting some of those.

[Co-host/Interviewer]

I got a Grand Am.

[Jermaine Dupri]

What's a Grand Am?

[Co-host/Interviewer]

Six cylinders of love.

[Jermaine Dupri]

What is a Grand Am?

[Show Host (Slash)]

Bring one up on the Internet for Pontiac. Pontiac Ram.

[Jermaine Dupri]

That's like a Trans Am or something like that. No, not quite.

[Boost Mobile Advertiser]

Not as cool.

[Jermaine Dupri]

No light Trans Am. Light like Jessica Simpson right now.

[Co-host/Interviewer]

All the cool. All the cool rental car agencies have them. There you go, right there.

[Show Host (Slash)]

Look at that.

[Co-host/Interviewer]

Grand Am is your chicken of the sea.

[Jermaine Dupri]

That's true. Oh, that's a new model, huh?

[Co-host/Interviewer]

Yeah, mine was like a. You know, like a 99.

[Jermaine Dupri]

All right. Sorry.

[Co-host/Interviewer]

It cost me 50 bucks.

[Show Host (Slash)]

All right, tell us about. Gotta getch. Tell us about the new projects that you're working on right now.

[Jermaine Dupri]

Well, I mean, you know, y' all know about midtown music, that the urban stage this year. Midtown music is produced by me.

[Show Host (Slash)]

That's pretty impressive right there.

[Jermaine Dupri]

So I'm doing something else, I guess, as a entrepreneur, as Just putting together a show.

[Show Host (Slash)]

The whole stage is yours for, like.

[Jermaine Dupri]

All the days, every day. Damn.

[Co-host/Interviewer]

Nice.

[Jermaine Dupri]

Yeah. So I put together the artists, the groups that's gonna be there, you know, all that stuff. Yeah.

[Co-host/Interviewer]

And I. I can tell you who.

[Jermaine Dupri]

Gonna be there, too. Let me see. Let me find my information that.

[Show Host (Slash)]

Terrence. Terrence.

[Jermaine Dupri]

Yeah. Terrence. Terrence. We got Game and Sierra and Bobby Valentino on Friday night. Saturday night, I got the black eyed Peas. And I'm lost right now. I just know. Friday night. I just told you. But sad. I lost it. It was in my page. I had all the information, but it's gonna be crazy, and it's gonna be new. It's gonna definitely be energetic. Every day you go Friday night, you see Game, Sierra, and Bobby Valentino, you gonna know that you should show up Saturday. Cause it's just gonna. You know, it's gonna be that many more artists and Just great, you know, good time. Yeah. Cool.

[Co-host/Interviewer]

A couple weeks ago, the new Mariah Carey CD came out.

[Jermaine Dupri]

Yeah.

[Co-host/Interviewer]

You know, it's first Mariah care, like her big, you know, comeback album after Meltdown and all that stuff that went on years ago. And our program, Greg pulls me in the office, he goes, dude, you want to hear the greatest thing on the Mariah Carey cd? And I said, what's that? He goes, jermaine Dupri singing?

[Jermaine Dupri]

Yeah.

[Co-host/Interviewer]

And then he plays Jermaine Dupri singing on the new Mariah Carey.

[Blue Apron Advertiser]

The two.

[Co-host/Interviewer]

You were on Good Morning America a couple weeks ago, right?

[Jermaine Dupri]

Yeah, yeah.

[Co-host/Interviewer]

Doing it live.

[Jermaine Dupri]

I want to say shout out to Mariah. She sold a lot of records and I did all them first songs. I'm excited about that.

[Show Host (Slash)]

Yeah, she loves us. Mariah loves us. Whenever she's in Atlanta, she comes by and hangs out with us.

[Jermaine Dupri]

She gotta love you on the front cover of Atlanta magazine.

[Show Host (Slash)]

Look at you, man. It's larger than life.

[Jermaine Dupri]

Yeah.

[Show Host (Slash)]

I don't even know how to introduce you anymore, Jermaine, because you can't even just call you, like a uber producer, because now you're singing and my name is Slash. Slash?

[Jermaine Dupri]

Yeah.

[Show Host (Slash)]

Is that what you're going with now?

[Jermaine Dupri]

Yeah, that's my name.

[Show Host (Slash)]

Because you got your hands in everything now, too. Now you're opening up like a Waffle House or something.

[Jermaine Dupri]

Yeah, I got a little cafe open. It's called Cafe Dupree. It's 3135 Piedmont Road. Oh, yeah. So it's gonna be the spot. It's gonna stay open till, like, you know, like 22 hours a day, too.

[Show Host (Slash)]

Oh, yeah?

[Jermaine Dupri]

Yeah.

[Show Host (Slash)]

What are you gonna be serving, two, three hours?

[Jermaine Dupri]

Yeah, two, three hours. It's gonna be like more of a healthier type of place for people to eat. You know, people that eat cleaner than what's been going on in Atlanta. Like, you can't. If you, like, late at night, you want to eat Waffle House, that's not good for you. So, I mean, I don't eat that unhealthy no more. So. But it's not really like a real, like, health food place, but it's just for more people that want to eat cleaner and looking out for, you know, just look, watching they health.

[Show Host (Slash)]

See this? This goes back to the conversation we have with you all the time, Jen. Cause Jen is married to a musician and sister Hazel. And you know, the old stereotype of musicians is they're eating crap in the.

[Jermaine Dupri]

Middle of the night, they're drinking whiskey.

[Show Host (Slash)]

This guy Ryan from Sister Hazel.

[Jermaine Dupri]

And I'm.

[Show Host (Slash)]

Now. And I'm. I'm gonna start putting you in the same category because you're supposed to be up all night and pouring and eating what you want and drinking, and now you're opening hell food.

[Jermaine Dupri]

It don't work like that.

[Co-host/Interviewer]

If you're a record industry mogul, you should never in your life order anything with extra sprouts.

[Jermaine Dupri]

Nah, you know what. Know what happens, though, if you. If you eating bad like that and having to get up and do what you have to do and pay attention and do everything, it's not. It just don't work right. It's just crash. When I stopped this, I started this, like, three years ago. I just stopped eating red meat and drinking sodas all the time. And this, that, and the third, and drinking a lot. Like, I used to drink so much that, I mean, you know, I cut back a lot, but not too much, but I cut back a lot. That'll slow you down. And if you gotta wake up in the morning and do meetings and this, that, and the third, you're just so sluggish, and you. You like, feel like you back in high school going to sleep in a meeting, and you can't do that.

[Show Host (Slash)]

Was there one morning specifically, you said, okay, that's it. No, I have got to change.

[Jermaine Dupri]

Nah, I never. I mean, it never was like, something that made me do it. I mean, hangovers, though. I hate hangovers. I had a hangover one day and I just did not know what to do.

[Co-host/Interviewer]

Like, you were never in a club and somebody whipped a battery at you and permanently scarred your head.

[Jermaine Dupri]

Oh, no. What the hell is.

[Show Host (Slash)]

Yeah, what the hell is that? What are you talking about?

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[Jermaine Dupri]

I'm just. Randall, what is that?

[Show Host (Slash)]

You need some Adderall?

[Co-host/Interviewer]

I don't know. I'm just. I'm saying. Cause, you know, maybe something like that happened to somebody here in the room, so.

[Jermaine Dupri]

Oh, sick right there again. Yeah.

[Show Host (Slash)]

Jen got all drunk and got herself in a fight at Venice.

[Jermaine Dupri]

She looks like she don't know nothing that's going on right now. She like, what is he talking about?

[Co-host/Interviewer]

He's just trying to look cool in front of you. But the deal is that Burt went to vision and picked a fight with somebody much bigger than him and came home with a big old lump on his head and a black eye for the. For the next two weeks after that. So they're trying to be cool. That's right. Blame it on me.

[Show Host (Slash)]

That was my Jermaine Dufri moment where I Woke up the next morning, I'm like, you know what? And then I stopped drinking for 60 days.

[Jermaine Dupri]

Okay. All right. Yeah, yeah, but you look like you work out. You eating apples and yogurt and all that stuff in here.

[Show Host (Slash)]

For the last three months, it's been like that.

[Jermaine Dupri]

Why?

[Show Host (Slash)]

I had a picture to take that went up on the Internet.

[Co-host/Interviewer]

Yeah, we got him shirtless on our website.

[Jermaine Dupri]

Oh, okay. Well, that's where you need to come to Cafe Dupree and keep it. Keep it going.

[Show Host (Slash)]

So it's like, all lean stuff.

[Jermaine Dupri]

I mean, yeah, it's all. You know, it's just more healthier food. It's all still the same food that everybody eats, but it's just different. You know, it's cooked healthier and it's cleaner. You know, it's not a lot of sugar and all that junk that they putting in the other food.

[Co-host/Interviewer]

And where on Piedmont is it? Like, give us a landmark that it.

[Jermaine Dupri]

Would be near, you know, Bones. Like, right across the street from Bones. The old Slasky's Deli.

[Co-host/Interviewer]

Nice. Very cool.

[Show Host (Slash)]

Jermaine Dupree on all the hits. Q100.

[Co-host/Interviewer]

I wanted to say thank you for the welcome to Atlanta theme song.

[Jermaine Dupri]

Thank you.

[Co-host/Interviewer]

Any more Southern anthems on the way?

[Jermaine Dupri]

I don't know. I mean, I would hope one day, you know, that I would do another record like that. But I made welcome to Atlanta. I said this the other day. I made welcome to Atlanta for everybody in Atlanta, although I told them my days of what I do. But the overall theme of the record is for this city. Cause I feel like Atlanta's too vibrant not to have a theme song. And it kind of. I'm a little pissed off, like. Cause they don't play my record at every venue when it's something that's got, like, Braves games, Hawks, Thrashers everywhere. They should play that hook at every. Everything that's going on in the city. Because it's not. I don't say it's not about me. It's saying welcome to Atlanta. It's like, you know, bringing people into our town.

[Show Host (Slash)]

Have you ever called any venues and said, hey, how come you're not playing this?

[Jermaine Dupri]

Nah. Because I don't. I'm just really still, like, trying to wait and see if it's gonna catch, if it's gonna hit them, you know, like, when you go to a Yankees game, you hit everything. New York, right?

[Co-host/Interviewer]

New York, New York and stuff.

[Jermaine Dupri]

It don't matter what it is. They gonna play everything that got something to do with New York. You gonna Hear it. If the Yankees start beating you, you getting ready to get New York to death. It's just, I thought, I would have thought that everybody would pay attention to that, but that some of those things that's. The city is still kind of slow on.

[Co-host/Interviewer]

They're looking for. I just read it in the paper. I'm looking for the article, but they're looking for a slogan for Atlanta. You like, you know, like Philadelphia is a city of brotherly love and you know, like, they're looking for something more updated, like a whole brand. So what about where the players play?

[Jermaine Dupri]

Yeah, there you go. Go give it to the whole theme.

[Co-host/Interviewer]

The whole city now.

[Jermaine Dupri]

It should be the new Motown or something like, you know, Atlanta is, is. Is popping and going on that.

[Co-host/Interviewer]

I see a lot of hip hop stars, a lot more hip hop stars and videos wearing a lot more Atlanta. Athletic, curious. I mean, you know, people who live in Atlanta know how great Atlanta is. But do you think Atlanta gets the respect it deserves in the music industry?

[Jermaine Dupri]

Yeah, of course. I mean, we, we kind of like we got the music business unlocked on. On every side. That's why I'm saying it should be really titled the New Motowns. Cause that's what it is. Everybody here is successful from Sierra to Outkast to me to. I mean, it's a long list of artists that's out here that's, you know, it ain't been like this in a long time. Just for one city to have numerous artists, numerous hits, and they don't stop. You know, it's just like here, all the hits.

[Co-host/Interviewer]

Right.

[Show Host (Slash)]

Jermaine, thanks for coming in today, man. Appreciate it. You know, you're always welcome in here. Whenever you want to hang out, man. Come on in.

[Jermaine Dupri]

All right.

[Co-host/Interviewer]

Whenever you want to get up again at 5 in the morning after going to bed at 4.

[Jermaine Dupri]

Well, you know. Yeah, it's kind of easy.

[Show Host (Slash)]

Yeah. You seem all right now.

[Jermaine Dupri]

Yeah, I'm about to go to Starbucks, so I'm good. All right. Get some breakfast.

[Co-host/Interviewer]

And until about 8:00 clock tonight, when everybody else is just getting to the studio and Jermaine's dozing off.

[Jermaine Dupri]

Right.

[Co-host/Interviewer]

On the Bird show.

[Jermaine Dupri]

Yeah, I'm be a little tired, but I want to thank you for letting me come up here.

[Show Host (Slash)]

Absolutely, man.

[Jermaine Dupri]

Make sure everybody come out to my restaurant. Cafe Dupree, 3135 Piedmont. Make sure you do that. And come to Midtown Music. Support the, you know, support Midtown Music and go buy my album July 19th.

[Show Host (Slash)]

Support this man. He's barely eating people.

[Co-host/Interviewer]

And if you work at a venue in Atlanta. Play welcome to Atlanta.

[Jermaine Dupri]

Exactly. That's what we learned today. Yeah.

[Show Host (Slash)]

All right.

[Jermaine Dupri]

Thanks, man.

[Show Host (Slash)]

You're on the Virt show.

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[Show Host (Slash)]

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[Jermaine Dupri]

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[Show Host (Slash)]

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