Jermaine Dupri has cleared the air, as soon as and for all, about what occurred with Latto after she took dwelling 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 hold saying, ‘Jermaine, you dropped the ball on [Latto],’” he mentioned completely on the Lovers & Buddies pageant on Might 6. “However what individuals don’t perceive is, I put Latto’s file out. The deal was, for those who 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He continued: “The issue was, was that Latto was 16 years outdated, and the shops didn’t help it. And no one was like talking on it. No person talked about it. For those who watched the TV present, you noticed it. However individuals didn’t actually begin speaking about Latto till she began making extra vulgar information, 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” — successful 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.
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The eight-episode first season noticed the rivals battle it out in numerous challenges that highlighted obligatory attributes a rap star ought to possess resembling battle rapping, stay performances, and penning and recording a full track in-studio. Being across the Atlanta rap scene and having years price of performances made Mulatto (actual title Alyssa Michelle Stephens) not solely probably the most constant artist however the superb option to resume enterprise as soon as cameras stopped rolling.
However although she received the competitors, Latto mentioned on the time that she turned down the supply to be on Dupri’s So So Def Information as a result of his contract wasn’t providing her sufficient cash, in keeping with an interview with Vlad TV again in 2016.
She did, nevertheless, make investments the cash she bought from the present properly, turning a clothes line into successful story.
