Jermaine Dupri Admits Tremendous Bowl Socks Response Baffled Him

Jermaine Dupri unexpectedly went viral because of his Tremendous Bowl LVIII Halftime Present outfit. Viewers joked about his look with a lot of the concentrate on his socks. JD swore his vogue decisions weren’t meant to induce dialog in an interview with AllHipHop’s Chuck Creekmur.

“I by no means even thought no person would say something concerning the socks,” Dupri stated. “I’ve worn these socks earlier than. And I really consider that it’s as a result of a lack of awareness is being given to those children. As a result of if individuals knew extra about me, they might know I’m a dancer and I come from an period the place dancers used to put on all kinda completely different stuff. Not the place it won’t have been cool for a rapper to put on, nevertheless it would possibly’ve been cool for the dancer to put on. It would’ve been cool. I’m a Hip-Hop child. I grew up in Hip-Hop and vogue was an enormous a part of my life. I’m additionally the identical person who had the entire world sporting they garments backwards. So when individuals discuss my socks, I’m like, ‘You do notice all people advised me that sporting your garments backwards wasn’t going to work?’”

He continued, “No person was in agreeance with that. Like, ‘Jermaine, you loopy. What y’all doing that for?’ And the truth that [Kris Kross] was youthful, I feel that kinda smoothed it out a bit bit. However individuals weren’t with that. After which it’s loopy for me to go quick ahead 20 years or one thing. Folks like, ‘Man, Kris Kross was my first tape that I purchased and I acquired kicked out of college ‘trigger I used to be sporting my garments backwards.’ And I’m like, ‘What?’ So, I don’t take into consideration garments like that. I simply placed on stuff. This was one thing that I wished to put on. I didn’t don’t know that the world was going to say it. And once I got here off the stage at [the] Tremendous Bowl, my daughter was like, ‘They in your socks, they in your head concerning the socks.’ I’m like, ‘Why would they be speaking to me concerning the socks?’ So yeah, I wasn’t even paying no consideration to it.”

Dupri was stunned by the response however supposed to capitalize on it. He wore the socks once more to South By Southwest, telling AllHipHop it was vital to acknowledge what captures individuals’s consideration.

“When you do one thing in leisure and the subsequent time individuals see you, they ask you about that factor that you just did, you higher take note of it,” JD stated. “Now, whether or not it’s good or dangerous, you higher take note of it. And that’s nearly the key to my success. I simply take note of the plain. I don’t declare to be a genius and all this. I simply take note of the plain.”

Dupri mentioned the socks and way more whereas selling the Hulu documentary Freaknik: The Wildest Occasion By no means Informed, which premiered on Thursday (March 21). He served as one of many movie’s govt producers.

Watch AllHipHop’s interview with JD beneath.