You're listening to TED Talks Daily, where we bring you new ideas and conversations

to spark your curiosity every day. I'm your host, Elise Hume. For music mogul, Jermaine Dupree,

who you might know as the producer behind hits like Mariah Carey's We Belong Together

and Usher's Nice and Slow. The magic of producing music is that you always start with nothing

but the seed of an idea, and yet you're able to build a song that people can feel and connect with.

Tremaine took to the TED stage for a rapid-fire Q&A-style talk

to share his creative process

and why the city that shaped him, Atlanta, Georgia, in the U.S.,

matters so much to his work.

Who here is not from Atlanta? Who here is not from Atlanta?

Okay, welcome to Atlanta.

Let's get started.

What do I love most about producing?

It's almost like having a baby for me.

Like, you go in the studio, and it's not an idea that, you know, most people would be looking around the studio trying to figure out what we're going to do.

And then we get an idea, and then we start making that idea come to life.

And depending on how long it takes, you know, sometimes it take five minutes, sometimes it

take two days to get this, but it's still, it's like making a baby.

And, well, it's not like making a baby, but you know what I'm saying.

Yeah, so, but yeah, that's what it feels like, though.

It's like, that's how I feel when I make music.

I watch it go from, you know, nothing to something,

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