Mr Soo DEA on the biggest stage in the world last night what about it oh man it’s amazing um to be up there with your friends and to be up there with people that you basically started you know from scratch me me and Usher we first worked
This the first time he ever had you know a number one record so to be up there with something that I saw come from the birth and everybody see it like this was amazing you hear my voice you know you know what’s going on I know I I wouldn’t
Expect your voice to sound like anything else this morning for sure I need everybody in here to put one hand in the [Applause] air bounce y know what this is you know we always love to talk about the Fashions too because everything was A Feast for the eyes so how did y’all
Decide was it like a color coordination do you put a mood board like how do you decide what you’re going to wear uh well I mean you know it’s it’s if you saw his Vegas performance you know his Vegas performance was a lot of much more upscale clothing yes but at the same
Time we wanted to keep it um ATL and do as much um not so much Street stuff because I feel like that’s the difference between R&B and and Hip-Hop is that you had to understand this was an R&B show you know it was it was an
R&B show think had rappers but for the most part it was an R&B show you haven’t never seen uh artist do ballots like that on on at the Super Bowl and people thought that it was impossible so Usher wanted to really like make sure that the
Clothes was flowy so if you look at like if you look at the the the trail on Alicia’s dress yeah that was basically the concept of the whole clothing is that everything had to be flowy everything had to be almost fabulous and everything needed to be just fly you
Know well you know you have people talking this morning you’ve got folks talking 100% the internet’s talking about it I mean you know that and and you know I I I posted some I was like I said I was too drunk last night but um I
Um I see it today it’s funny it’s really really funny but you know the Miss Louis vitt turn socks I had on I don’t know what everybody talking about come on now come on now I took the world to the aab I took the world to the a turn the world
To the a I took the world to the a b [Applause] the yeah I love you you know a moment for me at the end when he was saying so breathless I brought the a to the world like I brought Atlanta to the world and I know that was a real heartfelt moment
Right there oh yeah I mean that’s what we all that’s what we’ve all tried to do you know all you know is um stay and stand on what we started you know I mean and continue to keep doing it and continue to keep figuring out a way to
Bring it to y’all and make it freshh I never thought I’d see the a toown stomp on the Super Bowl stage for sure so oh yeah see that that’s what I’m saying oh yeah was amazing it was okay so take me back to the conversation when Usher was
Named Super Bowl um halftime show performer did he immediately call you or how did you get in the conversation with him yeah so initially I I helped him put together his show at at in Vegas so a lot of a lot of the music you know did
Five of my records I don’t think people even understand that so with with you doing you know so so much of the music that I produced and wrote um we had a you know once he decided he was going to do it and everybody decided to do we had
To sit down and have a conversation about you know what parts of the records to use what part of the records were actually created for this like I had that I had that conversation with him about that is that you know when we put the rock guitar in the
Ballots um my mind was in this space you know I mean I was thinking about the bigness of doing this and having somebody like her come out and do a solo and it know we made it happen but how did it end up that we said Jermaine we
Got to bring him out on the stage you gotta have that c spot too I mean you know the you can’t you you know I think sometimes people underestimate the the the power of JD like I think that uh you know it was it was people it was people
That was saying it was people that was telling me when I was trying to help him I wasn’t even thinking about going people that was trying to when I was just trying to help him mix shoes right they was like I know you hitting that
Stage I know you getting up there so I mean you know I think since people know our connection they just wanted to see that happen once we started rehearsing that’s what Usher wanted I mean I changed what I was saying multiple times because he was like JD this got to be
The moment where people know he was telling me he was trying to tell me what to say and he would recall himself saying what he thought I should say so we um it it hit him too it was like I need you up there we got to represent
Every part of what people know about me oh I love that so much now you talked about that you have been there since the beginning and we know that um and I know you’ve seen this journey when you all were having those conversations way back when did you imagine this did you dream
This or was that moment where 130 million plus people are watching was that ever like in your realm of of thought or or possibility no not not from the beginning but you know when Usher s when confessions came out and sold a million the first week and
With diamond and Super Bowl was in Atlanta right this was a thought in our mind when Super Bowl was in Atlanta and they messed up and they didn’t let him do it then you know what I’m saying so so um we thought about it after the fact
You know when an artist get that big you got to let them do what they got to do I love it so much okay so Usher has you you talked about confessions and all the stuff before he has three decades of hit you got to find That Into You got to you
Know put that into 13 minutes so let’s talk about the we got 15 so okay so and he told us he was gonna press the push the boundaries he told us it was gonna be longer than ever before and he did do that he got he got 15 minutes he did do
That okay so let’s talk about the performance overall what was your take and the I mean the the response from the fans myself included was like I’m losing my mind so what do you what do you take about the response from the f if you’re
A Usher fan right I think Super Bowl is for first you the person that performs they got to perform for their fans first and then the other people that’s there that maybe not a fan they catch on afterwards but I feel like as far as if you’re a Usher fan he did everything
That he was supposed to do yes you my number one spotlight the Superstar moment was a question that we went me and him went back and forth about I wanted more Superstar I’m not GNA lie I needed more I needed that yeah so that’s what I’m saying I think that I
Think it was a brilliant a brilliant set because it it gave people things that they they usually wouldn’t have get gotten you know what I mean like artist usually wouldn’t have done Superstar because it wasn’t one of his biggest records but it was a fan favorite like
You said you needed it and that that’s what that’s what we was thinking about when we did it yeah I was going to say and you’re right I think it’s it’s like a viral favorite too Superstar is and then if I’m being honest if I’m being a Monday Morning Quarterback I also wanted
More bad girl that’s like the Fe that’s the women’s song that’s our female Anthem that’s where we struck to an usher S I mean well listen he it I think I think it was amazing that Usher decided to let her do the guitar solo she that’s what she does and so so she
Had the bad girl moment she was the bad girl Las Vegas where my bad girls At was there anything that happened in the performance to you that was a surprise or did everything go according to plan oh initially well not during the performance I mean in during rehearsal when I when I finally saw the stage and everything I didn’t know that the stage
Was gonna be moving while he was skating I feel like that was the most electrifying thing I’ve seen on TV in forever because the floor was moving this way and he was sliding this way and it’s just you know for your eyes is crazy I I don’t think I I think
Everybody I’ve talked to have said that man on roller skates on that stage was otherworldly it was incredible how that looked yeah you don’t realize how hard that is that’s night that’s nice and but I mean he did he jumped out the scates and then took the skates back off and
Kept performing that’s not easy no that’s not easy and wait didn’t he have a little skating party last night afterwards at his party didn’t they put the skates on and that they had a roller skate ring there did you get on SK I mean and that’s true that’s true Atlanta
Culture yes we all skate oh did you skate last night no I didn’t skate last night I had me and Lil John had a party at another club okay okay I was gonna ask you how you celebrated after so you and Lil John had a party what did you
Guys get into uh well we both djed at Marquee last night M all right well you yeah so so deaf kept it going um so you know we we we know that Usher and his girlfriend also got a marriage license in Las Vegas are you going to the
Wedding did you already go to the wedding I don’t know much about it I like I said I was DJing last night I I saw a little bit of it but I don’t know much about it I’m guess I’ll hear about it in a little while okay so you didn’t
Congratulate him like Hey congratulations man on the marriage you didn’t no actually that’s I’m saiding I didn’t I I actually didn’t even see him after we I congratulated him after we got off the stage and then when I left um when I when I left it was like full
Motion for me I had to go to work I want to get into you and give you a little bit of your flowers right now too because you were just recently announced as the new C uh creative director for create music group right so how do you
Um want to continue to make an impact on music an impact on culture with you now stepping into this new role I mean I made a deal for my company so so death and create so this just part of the whole situation and it’s just me
Continuing to do what I started from day one is just find artists find all the new Talent out here and give them a nice home that they should be at um I don’t think that’s really happening anymore it’s definitely not happening in Atlanta um and it’s it’s it’s not cool to not
Happen in Atlanta because we got so we we still have so much energy in the city I just to to follow up on that do you feel like Jermaine do you feel like your contributions to music have been underrated because I do 100% yeah my first number one record was in
1993 with Chriss cross I got the hottest record on the streets right now with money long and it’s the biggest Tik Tock sensation on on Tik Tok and I just performed at the Super Bowl yeah I don’t know what else you want me to say I hear
You now did you see by the way with the the song with um money long did you see um PES do his thing with with um so can we is that really GNA happen yes yes I spoke to him going to make that happen
It’s so dope I cannot wait for it I can I need to see you do your version where’s the ET version at listen you gotta do it I tried to sing to her when she came to our platform at the Grammys and I was like let me stop let me just
Let me stop you gotta do it it’s all good it’s all good and fun I got one more thing I got to say I put out my new single like uh Friday and it’s my new single called uh little games we play is featuring Nelly Ashanti and Juicy Jay oh
Okay now what kind of gam and Ashanti playing with us right now oh you know you can already tell yes you can you already know I just like that my girl is happy that’s what I like and I yes I’m loving it I’m loving it all right
Jermaine thank you so much we appreciate you congratulations y’all murdered that stage last night for sure thank you
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