Yahoo! Music, Sep 19, 2001 12:00 pm PDT
(9/19/01, 12 p.m. ET) -- Jermaine Dupri produced the soundtrack for the Keanu Reeves film Hardball, which opened in theaters last week at Number One. The soundtrack's title song and first single, a collaboration with teenager rappers Lil' Bow Wow, Lil' Wayne, Lil' Zane, and R&B singer Sammie, is Number One on Billboard's Bubbling Under R&B/Hip-Hop Singles chart.
Dupri, who is slated to release Instructions, his sophomore solo album, on October 2, told LAUNCH that he wrote the all-star song in 30 minutes. "After I saw the movie, I kinda already knew what I kinda wanted to do. It was written real fast, for Bow Wow's parts, and little Sammie's parts, and the track, we did that real quick," he said. "And everybody else, I just had to hunt them down and put them on the record. So that took a little bit of time. But other than that, it was a quick process."
Lil' Bow Wow added that he identified with young baseball players in the movie. "I mean, that's how I used to be when I was like a...before all this. I mean, it was just a group of us, you know, we'll go hang out, go up to the skating rink or whatever, just have fun. And do what like normal kids would probably do, but I can definitely, like, relate to like the movie, and to me as in real life with my friends or whatever. But I can definitely say the movie was real."
The Hardball soundtrack was released on September 11.
-- Billy Johnson Jr., Los Angeles
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