“People talk about Quincy Jones and all of these guys, and they should, but Jermaine deserves ... at different times,” Dupri explains. “I think it took my dad a long time to digest this ...

Jermaine Dupri is astonished that 30 years have passed since he founded his label, So So Def. That milestone comes as Dupri leads a celebration of 50 years of hip-hop on Saturday at the Essence ...