It solely made sense for Jermaine Dupri and Janet Jackson to create music collectively throughout their seven years of courting. However it wasn’t one thing the So So Def creator was in search of when pursuing the award-winning singer.

Dupri and Jackson dated from 2002 to 2009. The 2 already boasted in depth music catalogs previous to getting concerned. Throughout their time collectively, Dupri produced traditional albums like Usher’s Confessions and Mariah Carey’s The Emancipation of Mimi.

Whereas he managed to supply hits for different chart-topping artists, Dupri didn’t have the identical success together with his ex-girlfriend. However it additionally was by no means his intention to supply music with Jackson, as he revealed throughout a latest look on Million Dollaz Price of Sport.

“It wasn’t about no music sh*t,” he defined. “I used to be simply on some like hang around. I wasn’t on no music sh*t, although. I by no means needed to supply her.”

Dupri’s revelation got here after the podcast hosts requested the hip-hop mogul if he used his ability as a producer to courtroom Jackson. Though the “Welcome to Atlanta” rapper had no need to supply for Jackson,  it did trigger some rigidity of their relationship.

“We bought in an argument about me not producing her as a result of she was round me watching all people else get hit information,” he stated.

The Grammy-winning producer was conscious of all of the hypothesis surrounding his relationship with Jackson and didn’t need the singer to begin believing the rumors.

“I by no means needed her to assume that’s what my agenda was. ’Trigger so many individuals was saying that,” he defined. “When Janet met me she bought picked up from the airport in a [Bentley] Continental T. … It wasn’t by no means no scenario the place I needed her to consider that I used to be attempting to do that.”

Dupri added that he didn’t need to “be the individual to mess it up.”

With Jackson nonetheless working together with her producers Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis on the time, Dupri didn’t assume his companies have been wanted.

“You don’t want me, however in her eyes… It didn’t sound correct,” he stated. However his reluctance to supply for Janet brought about “a bit of bit” of rigidity all through their relationship.

The “Cash Ain’t A Factor” rapper confronted criticism when he produced songs on Jackson’s 2006 album 20 Y.O., as famous by Hip Hop DX. In 2020, when he was requested if he would ever reunite for a musical collaboration with Jackson, Dupri defined why followers shouldn’t maintain their breath.

“The one motive I say that’s as a result of I really feel cheated in a manner from the 20 Y.O. album that I did… lots of people discredit me for that album. It has nothing to do with me and her,” he advised Web page Six.

“I noticed a variety of followers say, ‘JD messed her profession up with that album,’” he continued. “That album nearly bought 400,000 copies in its first week and produced a No. 1 hit. I don’t know why that’s not a hit.”