Is Jermaine Dupri being shown the door?
|  | | Janet Jackson and Jermain Dupri | SOHH is floating the rumor that Jermaine Dupri will be removed from his position as head of the urban department at Island Def Jam, thanks in large part to a recent string of high-profile flops that includes Janet Jackson's Discipline and Mariah Carey's E=MC2, which still is having problems getting traction for a follow-up single for "Touch My Body".
What this means for the Dupri-helmed joint venture between Island Def Jam and TAG Body Spray is uncertain, but Dupri isn't having the best week either way: He shuttered his Atlanta restaurant Cafe Dupri earlier this week, thanks to the crappy economy driving down profits.
"Bottom line: if it doesn't make money, it doesn't make sense," he told AllHipHop.com about the restaurant's closure, although one suspects that statement could be easily translated to other subjects. (Idolater)
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