If you have Jermaine Dupri saying F you to you, just say F you right back. The music producer wrote a very impassioned and misguided essay about the state of the music business. And coming from one of the producers who can be considered a mogul already, it makes me sick.
Not only did it clearly show his lack of appreciation for the people that buy his music, but he also looks at iTunes as a big evil monster. Janet Jackson?s main squeeze thinks that albums should be sold as a whole and consumers shouldn?t have the option to buy songs individually like we can on iTunes.
Well at least we buy a song instead of downloading them illegally!
Jermaine Dupri hosted a monstrous private party in Atlanta on Wednesday night, but it wasn’t his usual patented JD throwdown. Sure, some of his closest friends and collaborators came out ? Nelly, Usher, Lil Jon, Monica, Jagged Edge, T-Boz, Chris Webber and of course Janet Jackson ? but this one was a little more special for JD. The party was the grand opening of his club, Studio 72.
For a music mogul whose party-throwing is almost as legendary as his nearly two decades of hit records, it seems like JD would have been in the nightclub business years ago. But believe it or not, he never really thought about opening his own party spot until about seven months ago, when the proverbial opportunity came knocking at his door.
“I don’t know,” JD said on Tuesday when asked why he’d never opened a club before. “I had to find the right spot ? a place where I could do it and feel comfortable. I found a spot, it needed help, so I felt it was the perfect time for me to come in. I never had an inspiration to own no club, but I seen the opportunity and I was like, ‘Let’s go get it.’ ”
Thus, the ATL has a new place JD guarantees will be jamming on the daily ? Studio 72, the inspiration for which should be obvious.
“I wish I could have went to Studio 54,” Dupri said of the notorious disco-era New York nightclub that acted as muse for his new place. “Just from the picture, it looks like the spot I would have been in every week. It looks like it was so poppin’ in there, I would have moved to New York. When you see a club that has Michael Jackson standing on the line outside, you know that sh– was incredible. It ain’t about money for me. I’m trying to have fun. I want people to come from out of town and have to be here, like, ‘I heard Studio 72 is the sh–.’ ”
JD doesn’t do it till rap’s favorite closing time ? 6 a.m. ? but he comes real close. Studio 72 closes at 5 a.m. and is the only club in Atlanta that serves spirits until 4 a.m. Plus, it’s full of special features.
“We got fish tanks, five bars, a lot of VIP [areas],” he said. “Most of the clubs I go to, the dance floors ain’t really a big spot. It’s mostly a room where everybody could sit down and people could mix and mingle. We got so many different areas: the Chocolate Room, the Jacuzzi Room, with girls in the jacuzzi.
Janet Jackson and her long-time boyfriend Jermaine Dupri were spotted leaving a coffee shop in Beverly Hills after having an early breakfast on Wednesday morning.
In the July 2 issue of OK! Magazine, Jermaine confirmed the rumors that Janet is working on a new album with LA Reid at Circle House Studios in Miami. When asked whether he and Janet have plans on starting a family, he said: ?As soon as she finishes her new album. She started in June and she?s working on it right now. Once the album and tours are done and all that?s settled down, it?ll happen somewhere around then.?
Could this be the fuel needed for a new Jackson Five?
