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DUPRI EXPLAINS THE KHIA/JANET JACKSON MIXUP: Producer says rapper is still on the project, but doesn’t actually spit rhymes.
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(June 29, 2006)
*EUR’s Lee Bailey pulled Jermaine Dupri to the side Monday before the ASCAP Rhythm & Soul Awards and asked him to comment on the hot air blown by rapper Khia, who was under the impression her vocals had been cut from the Janet Jackson album and was trying to start a boycott of Jackson’s songs in protest.
As previously reported, J.D. says Khia still appears on the track, titled “So Excited,” but the producer tells us that the rapper is not actually rapping on the song.
“Khia’s on the record because I’m a producer and I heard a sound that I wanted,” he explains to Bailey. “She don’t actually rap on the record, I’m giving you the exclusive. It’s something that I did with her voice. I mean, a lot or people who hear it, they might not even realize that it’s her.”
“I use textures when I do records and I just wanted her voice texture on this record, and she really made this song,” he continues. “Now she’s been complaining saying she’s been taken off the record, I don’t know where that came from. She’s really foolish to be out here talking [like this]. I’m still gonna keep her on the song because she ain’t know what she was doing.”
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