Welcome to Van Lief, this is the Red Pill podcast where we give you the brutal reality of truth,

today's guest, Jermaine Dupree.

Jermaine Dupree, if you love hip-hop,

should need no introduction.

He is a rapper slash producer slash mogul, slash

pretty much everything that you could have done songwriter manager whatever and rap he has done it he is responsible

both directly and tangentially for some of the biggest artists in music history.

We're talking Chriscross, Brad, Bow Wow, had a lot to do with usher success.

Was very involved throughout Mariah Carey's career.

Obviously had a connection, a working, and a personal relationship with Janet Jackson,

the head of So So So Deaf music, which was one of the biggest labels in the history of really any genre.

Okay? Start a wave, start a Revolution, hip-hop pioneer, mogul legend, but also a guy who just recently made some headlines for some opinions that he had on a certain type of female rapper, a certain type of female rap.

Now, Jermaine is here on the Red Hill podcast to talk about what he actually meant,

what his actual opinions are and what they aren't.

And more broadly on what the state of music as he sees it is right now,

not just for female rappers, but for rap,

period, the type of rap that he likes, the type of music that he

cultivates, and his place in history as being one of the original proponents of female

rappers through his relationships with the first female

rapper to ever go Platinum who was the Brat.

Germain is going to talk to us.

It's a very open conversation.

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