Jermaine Dupri Claims Drake Has Strong ‘Alliance’ With DJs: ‘Like No Other Artist I’ve Ever Seen’

Jermaine Dupri is in the news again, but instead of trying to have a conversation around independence, he’s having one about Drake’s relationship with DJs across the country.

On Tuesday night (Mar. 18), J.D. tweeted about being impressed by the Toronto rapper’s influence with club DJs. “That boi Drake got a DJ alliance like no other artist I’ve ever seen,” he said. “But most of you n—as probably don’t understand what I’m saying cause [you don’t] be outside.”

As usual, folks on X misinterpreted what the record executive said, so he sent out another tweet a couple hours later clarifying what he was trying to say. “Okay, I see people saying ‘DJ alliance’ is crazy,” he followed up. “So, let me tell y’all what I saw. I walked in the club and the DJ was shouting out a group of people from the West Coast and they must’ve been like, ‘Play some West Coast sh—t.”

Adding, “And before he dropped ‘Not Like Us,’ he said, ‘I might get in trouble for this’ and I was like, ‘Whoa!’

Last week, the So So Def founder posted a video clarifying a question he had about independent artists where he asked, “Can somebody tell me what the goal of being an independent artist is today because all of the things that people are chasing is sh—t major artist do, what’s the thing that indie artist do that make it special?”

Many fans jumped on him, assuming that he was speaking down on independent artists, but apparently he was legitimately trying to understand why some artists chose to not to sign with a major label and admitted that “you never know everything.”

In other Drake news, UMG has asked a federal judge to put a hold on discovery a day after requesting the case be dismissed. The record giant alleged that Drake and his team have been requesting “highly commercially sensitive documents.”

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