Jermaine Dupri is incensed over Apple Music's 100 Best Albums list ... specifically, the lack of R&B inclusion.
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00:00 (dramatic music)
00:02 - I know that you feel this list is a little slight.
00:06 It's slight, it's a bit slight for people in R&B.
00:09 - Yeah, yeah, I feel like it's disrespectful.
00:12 I'm not even gonna use the word slight.
00:13 It's disrespectful to the genre of R&B
00:16 because every artist from my era, I would say,
00:20 from '92 till now, the things that we listen to,
00:25 for me, even as a producer, to get songwriter,
00:28 to get to who I am, none of those people
00:31 are represented on this list.
00:33 Diana Ross is not on this list.
00:34 TLC is not on this list.
00:36 My great friend Mariah Carey, she's not on the list.
00:38 I mean, I could go on and on.
00:40 We're not even talking about me.
00:41 I'm just saying the genre of R&B
00:43 seems like it was very much left off this list.
00:46 - So these lists, to me, I don't know how you feel.
00:48 They seem just ridiculous to me.
00:50 - The foresight of the list is that this is Apple Music.
00:53 People go to Apple Music and then they fall into a hole,
00:57 a rabbit hole, and just start discovering music, right?
01:00 This list, to me, is almost a disabled rabbit hole
01:05 because it doesn't allow you to start the journey
01:09 of finding out about the musical talent
01:12 that came prior to the people
01:13 that you listen to in modern day.
01:15 - I feel like it's done intentionally.
01:18 It's more done to generate conversation
01:21 and to really jab at people than to say
01:24 this is actually the top 100.
01:26 We are in a generation where kids only listen,
01:29 they listen to their phone,
01:30 they pay attention to what's actually happening.
01:33 And to me, Apple Music is too important
01:35 to paint the same narrative that Little Richard was saying
01:39 before he passed away,
01:40 that people were disrespecting R&B music.
01:43 And as long as I'm here,
01:45 I'm gonna try to stand up for R&B
01:46 and make sure that that narrative
01:48 doesn't continue to keep happening.
01:50 - What is, in your view, the best album of all time?
01:54 - "Thriller."
01:56 - Yes.
01:57 - If you had to take one album on an island
01:59 and you could only listen to music,
02:01 this is the last album you can listen to
02:02 for the rest of your life?
02:03 I can listen to "Thriller" for the rest of my life.
02:05 The only thing I feel like they got right
02:07 was that I kept saying,
02:09 if Stephen Wonder's songs in "The Key of Life"
02:12 were not on this list at all,
02:14 they should've, everybody should've
02:16 just canceled their subscription.
02:18 - Thank God they got in the top 10.
02:19 (dramatic music)