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PEOPLE & ARTS Friday 15 June 2018
Jermaine Dupri looks back at legacy on eve of latest honor

By JOHN CARUCCI Carey's hit, "We Belong
NEW YORK (AP) — Together," which earned
When Jermaine Dupri a Grammy for best R&B
gets inducted into the song. As for his proudest
Songwriters Hall of Fame, he moment, he mentions the
will be only the second hip- "Confessions" album with
hop creator honored after Usher, or more notably the
Jay-Z. It's not something he song "Confessions Part II."
takes lightly. "I think that I can catch
"No matter what you want that magic with all the
to say about my records artists I work with long as
that I created, no matter I go into the project with
what you want to say the right mindset. And
about the artists that I've the right mindset is me
put out, I'm going into the understanding what my role
Hall of Fame, and you can't is, and them understanding
do nothing about it," Dupri what their role is," he said.
said. Earlier this week, he
Besides his induction released a curated playlist
on Thursday, Dupri has commemorating the 25th
collected some other anniversary of his So So
accolades this year, This May 24, 2018 photo shows music maker Jermaine Dupri during an interview in New York. Def Recordings label that
including The Music Associated Press features Jay-Z, Xscape,
Innovation Award at the Aaliyah, Bow Wow,
26th Bounce Trumpet Global Spin Awards and Throughout his career, range of artists in different Anthony Hamilton, Jagged
Awards, the Breaking the Trailblazer Award at the the Grammy-winner genres. He was one of Edge, Ghost Town DJ, Da
Barriers Award at the 2018 2018 Legendary Awards. has worked with a wide the songwriters on Mariah Brat and more. q

Mike Shinoda of Linkin Park explores personal loss

hind me?" and then plays times I would least expect." trying to pull it back togeth-
tender voicemails from ''Watching As I Fall" is a por- er." He freezes in the spot-
friends reaching out after trait of a broken artist alien- light in "About You."
Bennington's death. "Over ated from his fans. In "Noth- At this point, the dark, per-
Again" aches, as Shinoda ing Makes Sense Anymore," sonal sadness is almost too
is "tackled by the grief at he's "a shadow in the dark/ much.q

This cover image released by Warner Bros. shows "Post
Traumatic," by Mike Shinoda.
Associated Press

By MARK KENNEDY Bennington's name is never
Mike Shinoda, "Post Trau- mentioned on the 16-track
matic" (Warner Bros.) album but his suicide last
"Post Traumatic" is the first July looms over every song
album Mike Shinoda has as Shinoda moves through
released under his own a continuum from despair
name and it's pretty ob- to anger to depression and
vious that this wasn't the detachment. It's like listen-
way he wanted to do it. ing to Elisabeth Kubler-Ross'
It is a raw and painful tour five stages of grief.
through sorrow, created in The album begins with the
the wake of the death of delicate "Place to Start,"
his Linkin Park partner Ches- where Shinoda wonders
ter Bennington. "Can I put the past be-