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About Jermaine Dupri

Jermaine Dupri – record producer (United States), born in 1972.

Genres: Hip-hop, R&B, Pop rap, dirty south, Southern hip-hop.

Jermaine Dupri Mauldin is an American record producer, rapper, songwriter and record executive. Raised in Atlanta, Georgia, as the son of Columbia Records executive Michael Mauldin, he began his musical career at the age of 9. He discovered the teen hip-hop duo Kris Kross in 1991; Dupri wrote and produced their 1992 single "Jump", which peaked atop the Billboard Hot 100 and was named the 23rd most successful song of that decade. He established his own record label, So So Def Recordings, in a joint venture with Columbia the following year. The label has since signed acts including Xscape, Bow Wow, Da Brat, Jagged Edge, Dem Franchize Boyz, YoungBloodZ, and Anthony Hamilton, among others.