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Jermaine Dupri Says Female Rappers Should Call Their Genre Of Music ‘Strap’

<p>Roommates&comma; Jermaine Dupri has been getting a lot of heat following comments he made about females rappers&period; Well&comma; it looks like JD is not done yet&excl; He is now doubling down on his idea of female rappers making stripper music&comma; and even gives it a name&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>In an interview with Atlanta Black Star&comma; JD gives a recap on his previous comments&comma; and even gives an explanation about why he said what said&period; When asked about his favorite female emcee&comma; JD says he doesn&&num;8217&semi;t have one and insists they all make stripper music&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Now&comma; JD says female rappers should use this moment to create a new music movement called &&num;8220&semi;strap&&num;8221&semi;&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&&num;8220&semi;What people don&&num;8217&semi;t understand is that I actually believe that women that do this type of music should start calling it &&num;8216&semi;strap&&num;8217&semi;&comma;&&num;8221&semi; he says&period; &&num;8220&semi;I think just like we have trap&comma; they should call it strap&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>JD clarifies&comma; saying he doesn&&num;8217&semi;t mean any harm by the name&comma; but wants female rappers to embrace the concept and empower the type of music they like to create&period; He even cites an episode of Love &amp&semi; Hip Hop where he encourages an artist to coin the genre &&num;8216&semi;stripper fight music&&num;8217&semi;&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&&num;8220&semi;I was on an episode of Love &amp&semi; Hip Hop and Mimi brought her artists to see me and she was a stripper&comma;&&num;8221&semi; he says&period; &&num;8220&semi;And in that episode I was thinking concept&period; I told her her music sounds like stripper fight music and she should create that genre&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>JD continues saying the genre would be just like any other type of music that has developed over the years including Lil Jon&&num;8217&semi;s crunk music&comma; and Dem Franchise Boys&&num;8217&semi; snap music&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&&num;8220&semi;I&&num;8217&semi;m just saying&comma; &&num;8216&semi;strap&&num;8217&semi;&comma;&&num;8221&semi; she says&period; &&num;8220&semi;These are the stories of their lives so I believe that&&num;8217&semi;s what they should call it&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>JD&&num;8217&semi;s recent comments have not come without backlash&comma; and plenty of it&excl; Many female rappers have come to the defense of their records&comma; but JD says he said what he said&excl;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&&num;8220&semi;Of course they have different sounds&comma; but I can&&num;8217&semi;t really pick&period; favorite based on that&comma;&&num;8221&semi; he says&period; &&num;8220&semi;But to me&comma; if I recited a verse you&&num;8217&semi;ll see what I&&num;8217&semi;m talking about&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine; <div class&equals;"wpra-reactions-wrap wpra-plugin-container" style&equals;"justify-content&colon; 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