Jermaine Dupri & So So Def Announce Distribution Partnership with HYBE America

Jermaine Dupri and his So So Def Recordings label have introduced a partnership with HYBE America in the present day.

The partnership marks a very full-circle second for Scooter Braun, CEO of HYBE America, who started his profession underneath Dupri’s mentorship at So So Def. The deal offers So So Def “entry to HYBE America’s full distribution and advertising infrastructure, empowering the label to reintroduce its highly effective catalog and launch new artists, equivalent to DVSN and extra, with a contemporary international attain.”

“Every little thing I realized concerning the music enterprise began with Jermaine,” stated Braun. “He gave me my first shot after I was only a child with a dream. I used to be blessed to witness genius up shut — and now, years later, it’s an honor to return to the place all of it started and stand beside him as a associate.”

“This isn’t only a enterprise transfer — that is household,” stated Jermaine Dupri. “Watching Scooter construct what he has constructed has made me extremely proud. He realized the sport inside So So Def, and now he’s able to open doorways the way in which I as soon as opened them for him. That’s what legacy is about.”

As everyone knows, Jermaine Dupri helped form the sound of the 90’s and early 2000s with iconic work backing Usher, Mariah Carey, Janet Jackson, Nelly, Bow Wow, Da Brat, Jagged Edge, Xscape, and most just lately the Grammy®-winning viral sensation Muni Lengthy.

Scooter was a 19-year previous membership promoter and advertising govt who labored underneath Dupri and realized the ins and outs of the music trade.

“Jermaine Dupri isn’t only a legend — he’s one of many biggest producers and executives of all time,” Braun added. “He modified the sound of a technology. This deal is about giving him the trendy instruments and attain his legacy deserves, and ensuring the subsequent technology hears what the final one already is aware of: Jermaine Dupri is a big.”