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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-
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