Jermaine Dupri has cleared the air, as soon as and for all, about what occurred with Latto after she took house her win on the short-lived actuality present, The Rap Game.
In an unique interview with HipHopDX, the super-producer spilled all of the tea about what occurred on the present, plus gave unique quips about Bow Wow, his upcoming Curren$y initiatives, and his artist Young Dylan.
“People keep saying, ‘Jermaine, you dropped the ball on [Latto],’” he mentioned solely on the Lovers & Friends competition on May 6. “But what people don’t understand is, I put Latto’s record out. The deal was, if you win on The Rap Game, you get a single from Jermaine Dupri. So that single came out.”
He continued: “The problem was, was that Latto was 16 years old, and the outlets didn’t support it. And nobody was like speaking on it. Nobody talked about it. If you watched the TV show, you saw it. But people didn’t really start talking about Latto until she started making more vulgar records, dressing more sexual, and being more adult.”
Back in 2016, HipHopDX broke the information about Latto — who was, on the time, going by “Miss Mulatto” — profitable the Lifetime actuality competitors.
The present pitted 5 pre-adult rappers; Miss Mulatto, Lil Niqo, Lil Poopy, Supa Peach and Young Lyric towards each other for the chance to win a recording contract with Dupri’s So So Def imprint, and the 17-year-old Mulatto will now be the brand new face of the label.
Jermaine Dupri Clears Up Freaknik Doc Rumors: ‘I’m Telling The Story Of Atlanta’
The eight-episode first season noticed the opponents battle it out in numerous challenges that highlighted obligatory attributes a rap star ought to possess equivalent to battle rapping, stay performances, and penning and recording a full track in-studio. Being across the Atlanta rap scene and having years price of performances made Mulatto (actual identify Alyssa Michelle Stephens) not solely essentially the most constant artist however the superb option to resume enterprise as soon as cameras stopped rolling.
But although she received the competitors, Latto mentioned on the time that she turned down the supply to be on Dupri’s So So Def Records as a result of his contract wasn’t providing her sufficient cash, in accordance with an interview with Vlad TV again in 2016.
She did, nevertheless, make investments the cash she obtained from the present correctly, turning a clothes line into successful story.
Discussion about this post