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 Sport.
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 tasks, and his artist Younger Dylan.
“Individuals maintain saying, ‘Jermaine, you dropped the ball on [Latto],’” he stated solely on the Lovers & Buddies pageant on Might 6. “However what individuals don’t perceive is, I put Latto’s report out. The deal was, in case you win on The Rap Sport, you get a single from Jermaine Dupri. In order that single got here out.”
He continued: “The issue was, was that Latto was 16 years outdated, and the retailers didn’t help it. And no one was like talking on it. No one talked about it. In the event you watched the TV present, you noticed it. However individuals didn’t actually begin speaking about Latto till she began making extra vulgar data, dressing extra sexual, and being extra grownup.”
Again 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 Younger Lyric in opposition to 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.
The eight-episode first season noticed the opponents battle it out in varied challenges that highlighted obligatory attributes a rap star ought to possess resembling battle rapping, dwell performances, and penning and recording a full music in-studio. Being across the Atlanta rap scene and having years value of performances made Mulatto (actual identify Alyssa Michelle Stephens) not solely probably the most constant artist however the very best option to resume enterprise as soon as cameras stopped rolling.
However although she gained the competitors, Latto stated on the time that she turned down the supply to be on Dupri’s So So Def Data as a result of his contract wasn’t providing her sufficient cash, in response to an interview with Vlad TV again in 2016.
She did, nonetheless, make investments the cash she obtained from the present properly, turning a clothes line into a hit story.
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