Check The Credits: Jermaine Dupri

“Funkdafied” – Da Brat

“It was like the first record I ever rapped on. Me and Brat was in the studio going back and forth about what she was going to do on the song. I just started saying some lyrics that I heard in my head and she would say some lyrics she heard. I don’t know if it ever got to the point where she just didn’t want to say what I was saying, but she heard it and said I should just rap on the track. At that particular point I wasn’t really trying to rap. I was stuck on just doing the producer thing. She convinced me to do the rap. That became the second number-one record on So So Def.”