00:00please welcome Jermaine Dupri how are you thank you thanks for having me thank you for coming you
00:06look very fabulous I like this thank you are you really big into fashion yeah yeah yeah yeah super
00:14super fly so you have a new show excuse me coming to lifetime right now and it's called the rap game
00:19yeah well you'll work with young hip-hop artists ages 12 to 16 why this demo and why now well I
00:26mean this is a demo that I basically started out with us did crisscross in 92 um I did bow wow in
00:332001 so you know it's like um it it's always a lane that people just just don't even pay attention to
00:43I'm not motivated by things that everybody else has done I'm I'm motivated by doing something that
00:48um hasn't been seen on TV and this is yet to be seen on TV this is you know um especially the element of
00:56their parents being their managers um and all staying in the house and um oh so the parents
01:02and of course it's all right you know everybody's in the house and then it's also um with the with
01:08the emergence of social media um the kids dominate the social media market you know they have huge
01:16followings or not I won't say huge followers I just say they have followings um unlike when I put out
01:21crisscross they didn't have this they didn't have that element nor did they have the TV element when
01:27I put out bowie didn't have neither one either so um to me this is just a you know this is a big this
01:33is a bigger step from what I've always done awesome so since you're judging talent on the rap game we
01:37asked some of our viewers to submit videos for you to take a look at and let us know your honest
01:42feedback okay so um we'll have you look right here into the monitor and we'll have the first
01:47one pop up for you first up is Ryan he's an aspiring rapper third coast border surrounded by water
01:54therefore my everyday currency is influenced by foreign land Texas would rather expand but already
02:00the biggest land mostly run by slave owners generation produced to republicans but I can't
02:05debate who's been a man confederations to new age occupations who's to explain best advice
02:10they're pure to this game like the southern slang term man okay thoughts I may seem like you got
02:17his lyrics together um the thing about it the one thing I say about this show that I get on people
02:23about is that the internet is a very interesting space because it it makes people believe that they
02:29should do what they need to do right now and they don't pay attention to the impact that right now does
02:36you so now you know me watching this guy right here I don't I don't see an image for him I see him
02:42rapping thinking full marketing I just see a rapping yeah I'm something like what what is your look is
02:46this your look this did you even think about it before you jumped on here it seemed like he just saw
02:50that which I said I'm getting on here right right so then if you you put me in front of that tv and
02:57I'm looking at you from an artist standpoint artist has to look a certain way so I'm like is that
03:02your image lyrically sounded like you got idea what you need to be doing but um you know if you
03:08get opportunity stand in front of somebody like me right you should decision maker you should really
03:13prepare yourself a little bit more all right got you so next up we have crystal she is a singer
03:17I just can't give up now I've come too far from where I started from
03:33nobody told me the road would be easy and I don't believe he's brought me this far to leave
03:47me that was crystal thoughts I think a voice was good I think um definitely something that
03:55um any producer like myself or any producer could possibly work with she should definitely keep
04:00trying to push it keep going all right so our last one is deandre this is deandre's freestyle
04:04I can't really judge that one because I couldn't see him um you only get really one impression you
04:32know what I'm saying like if I beat that guy getting on the street and he say yo jermaine I was
04:35the dude that sent that video they played it third I'm gonna say oh you was the guy that we
04:40couldn't see and we don't remember even nothing about you right and that's the impression that I'm
04:46gonna be left with
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