Jermaine Dupri sits down and shares the stories behind his biggest hits, including bringing Janet Jackson to set for the “Dem Jeans” music video, the story of how the title of “Wat Da Hook Gon Be” came to be, creating “Money Ain’t a Thang” with Jay-Z, Bow Wow’s transition with “Fresh Azimiz” and more!

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Jermaine Durpi: What’s up, y’all. This is Jermaine Dupri, and this is my Billboard chart history.

OK, so the first thing that I was thinking was like, “This ain’t my song.” It hit me. I haven’t heard that song in a long time. First Jagged Edge record that I did featuring myself in Da Brat. I just remember the video. We went all the way out for the video. I put, like, four baby grand white pianos out in the middle of a parking lot and let them stand on top of the pianos. I was trying to make the biggest video I could possibly make for my group. It didn’t work well, but from the first time that me and Brat started rapping back to back, I just remember people’s reaction to it and it being something that I hadn’t seen in hip-hop, like a Bonnie and Clyde type of group in rap, basically.

What is this? “Jeans”? I was just trying to find the groove that Chingy had on his first record. “Pulling Me Back” was such a big single. We was just trying to follow up with something that was that made people dancing that had that St. Louis and Atlanta bop to it. I was trying to make the beat feel like “Grillz,” but not like “Grillz.” And I wanted to be like, give you a little break, and then hit the 808, and then give you a little break. It’s an interesting process. I remember making a video. It’s like a regular, like, you know, girls and guys in the video.

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