The Grammy Museum is celebrating one of Atlanta’s music icons. Super producer and TV star Jermaine Dupri will get an exhibit called “Jermaine Dupri & So So Def: 25 Years of Elevating Culture,” which will explore his legacy in Atlanta.
The exhibit will examine the legacy of Dupri and the rise and influence of Atlanta’s hip-hop and R&B scene. The exhibit will open on Sept. 20, 2018, when Dupri discusses his distinguished career at the Grammy Museum’s Clive Davis Theater as part of the Museum’s “An Evening With” program moderated by Grammy Museum Artistic Director Scott Goldman.
The exhibit will run through March 2019.
Dupri is set to launch the So So Def Cultural Currency tour with Xscape, Da Brat, Jagged Edge, Bow Wow, Anthony Hamilton, Bone Crusher, Youngbloodz, Dem Franchize Boyz and J-Kwon.
Dupri recently appeared on Atlanta radio’s V-103, where he dished on the tour, the mogul life and his favorite city. He said that he has been a vegan for 12 years after gorging on Waffle House and Yasims on Old National Highway in ATL.
Dupri’s tour will be at Philips Arena, which is his first time performing there. “People said I should have done Philips [Arena] before but being from Atlanta, I wanted to do the Fox [Theatre],” he says.
“The money is a lot bigger and there is a lot more money to be made with steaming,” he said. “You have so many different outlets to make money now. ‘Meet me at Tower Records,” was all we could say back in the day,” he said. Now, he said outlets like Tidal and Apple Music have changed the game.
