I'm Listening: Jermaine Dupri

Audacy Hip Hop / R&B

During a recent conversation with Jermaine Dupri, the producer shared how he navigates mental health issues and why music is a form a therapy for him.

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00:00During this run, highs and the lows, man, it can take a lot on you physically and mentally.

00:09How do you deal with some of life's problems mentally? How do you deal with those? How do

00:12you cope with any kind of problems you have mentally? I really don't, like, bother with

00:17anything else besides making music, you know? And I make sure that that's the first thing. Like,

00:24I was just telling somebody that about that. Like, my family even says that, like, he take music,

00:29that music is first in his life, like, over everything. So, I mean, I don't really bring

00:37the problems into the music world. I step outside of the music world and then there's some problems

00:41there or whatever, but I don't even pay no, I go, I run right back in there as soon as

00:46I start seeing problems. Is it safe to say that music can be your therapy?

00:50Yeah, music 100% is my therapy. That's why in making this new album, that's what it was.

00:54It was almost like a therapy session with me working with different artists, talking to

00:58people and just having different conversations with different walks of people and young,

01:02old, mid, young, whatever. It's just, it was a therapy. That's why I enjoyed doing it so much.

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