Wednesday, February 07, 2007

Jermaine Dupri, Remy Ma, R Kelly Hospitalized

Producer Jermaine Dupri has a new job as president over urban music at Island Records. Dupri will take the position after leaving his presidential role at Virgin Records supposedly due to low album sales of girlfriend Janet Jackson's disc 20 Y.O.
At the new position Dupri would oversee artists on the whole Island
Def Jam label. He will also report to Chairman and former LaFace Records CEO Antonio "L.A." Reid.
"I'm so excited to be reunited with L.A. Reid because most of my biggest hits were when he and I worked together," Dupri said.
Dupri's history of making hit songs like Usher's "Burn,"
Mariah Carey's "Shake it Off" and "Don't forget About Us," also made him a shoe in for the job.
"Jermaine's career has grown from strength to strength over the years, as a producer and songwriter and
recording artist in his own right, as a respected label executive and entrepreneur, and as a highly esteemed developer of new talent," Reid said.
Fans will now be able to see female rapper Remy Ma more often thanks to her own
reality show set to debut at the end of the year.
"I'm just in the process of getting my build on," Remy Ma said. "I can't talk about yet but it's crazy and it's coming."
The show will go alongside her sophomore album, PunishHer, also due at the end of the year. The album will feature her female rap group made up of DTP's Shawnna and Jackie-O.
After her hits "Conceited" and "Whuteva," Rem is hitting harder with the new album which will talk about the things has went through over the years.
"The album and the title will reflect all of the struggles and hardships she's had to endure such as Big Pun dying, Loud folding, leaving Terror Squad, issues with Joe and Universal, and lack of label support on Something About Remy LP," Remy's management said.
R. Kelly's been hospitalized. The singer was admitted to a Miami hospital with appendicitis. His lawyers spoke to the press on Tuesday regarding R's recovery.
"He was admitted on the 4th of February, and he was operated on shortly after admission," Gillespie said to the Chicago Sun Times. "He's recuperating fine."
Unfortunately, this will cause legal problems as well. This will cause him to miss a status hearing at the Criminal Courthouse in Chicago.
That case has been highly publicized, The case stems from accusations that R. Kelly had sex with, taped and urinated on an under-aged girl.
In related news, The R is readying a new LP after working with
Snoop Dogg on his latest single. Expect to hear more from R on various tracks, remixes, mixtapes and more.