Jermaine Dupri chatted with Lauren-Ashley Beck & Billboard’s Kyle Denis on the red carpet at the BET Awards 2025.
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00:00We're celebrating 25 years of the BET Awards.
00:02Being a legend of this industry, what does that mean to you?
00:06I don't know if being a legend of the industry means...
00:09You are a legend of our industry.
00:11I don't know.
00:11You're not trying to play.
00:12Yeah, what do you mean?
00:13No, I mean, you know.
00:15Yeah.
00:15I mean, I just look at myself as a person that's out here just trying to keep it going.
00:21Sure.
00:21Yeah.
00:22Yeah.
00:22Mariah Carey is our icon tonight.
00:25That's a legend of this industry.
00:27Do you better fly herself?
00:27See, that's what I'm saying.
00:28That's what I look at.
00:30Okay, so she is our icon of the night.
00:32What is your favorite Mariah Carey song of all time?
00:37My All.
00:39I know y'all thought I was going to say one of my songs.
00:41We did.
00:41We did.
00:42She knows that's my song.
00:44Yeah.
00:44I love that song.
00:45I wish I would have made that song.
00:47That's real.
00:49I mean, you know, I guess We Belong Together should have been my song pick, but My All,
00:53that's just my, if I, if I wasn't a person who worked with Mariah, My All is my favorite
00:58song.
00:59Yeah.
00:59What's your favorite collaboration that you've ever made with Mariah?
01:02We Belong Together.
01:03We Belong Together.
01:04Yeah.
01:04Absolutely.
01:05Yeah.
01:05You know what?
01:06It's so good catching up with you, man, and we cannot wait to see this tribute performance
01:10on that.
01:10Will you be a part of it?
01:11No, no, no.
01:11You're not going to pop out.
01:13I'm just going to pop out.
01:14I'm just going to sit out there and watch.
01:14Not even some words for the butterfly herself.
01:16I'm just going to sit out there and watch.
01:18You know what I mean?
01:18And like I said, I'm happy to honor her.
01:21I feel like it's overdue.
01:22I feel like Mariah's probably the one artist that we have left here on this earth that
01:27I feel like is underappreciated.
01:29Like, the things that she's done, even like the success of We Belong Together, it became
01:35Song of the Decade, right?
01:36And that's my only Song of the Decade.
01:38She's done that twice with Boys the Men.
01:42She's had Song of the Decade with them.
01:43Like, she's done it so much to me that she should be honored twice.
01:48She should do it again next year.
01:50I agree.
01:51I'm going to say the better myself.
01:53You have a fantastic time in there.
01:54Thank you so much, sir.
01:55I appreciate it.