DX: What are your plans for the Dubose Music Group?
JD: The beautiful thing for me honestly was that music is definitely a passion of mine; always has been. I thought that was going to be the first business that took priority over television. It happened the other way around. I didn’t want to do it just for the fame or the checks or whatever. Because I’m doing well on the TV side it’s truly a passion. I can be patient and do it the way I want to do it. I can find the right artists that are true artists that can sing and write and so forth and really take the time to develop them. I think what we’re seeing right now is that no one is being developed. Everyone is into this microwave system. There’s no more Motown, where they actually took years to develop artists from the look to the dancing to everything. And now the goal for me is that by the grace of god I have time to put my artists in the right situations wit the right people and really develop them so that when you hear them they’re not a one-hit wonder. They’re not the microwave where we just market them very well and then they do an album or two and you don’t hear them anymore. Dubose is really trying to be the new Motown, in terms of really developing artists that will be around for a long, long time.

DX: Any artists that you’d like to put out there right now?
JD: Keith Stuart is the first artist that we’re working with. He’s a great writer, singer-songwriter R&B and he did a couple dates [which is unheard of] with Keyshia Cole when she was on tour last year. He’s a real talent, a very humble guy from Compton. I’m very high on him. And then there’s some other artists that we’re trying to see if it’s a fit right now. But again this is a boutique kinda label where we can take the time to really give the artist the type of attention that he needs. This is not a situation where we’re like, “Let’s go get the checks right now and whatever happens, happens.” We’re really trying to find artists that want to be their own bosses and eventually their own CEO’s so they can continue on even after we’re done.

DX: What’s was it like working with Diddy on the Bad Boys of Comedy?
JD: Diddy is great man… honestly, probably one of the smartest men I’ve ever been around. If you’re around Diddy and you don’t take something from him that’s your own fault. You know, I heard all these stories prior to working with him like, “Why you want to do that, you got your own thing, etc.” I’m really not a guy who judges people off what other people say. It really was a beautiful thing. It just got to a thing where my comfort level with what was going on just got to a point where…it’s like running two car lots that do the same thing, you can’t do it. So I couldn’t really do that. But Puff is a solid guy, a stand-up dude. I have nothing but good things to say about him.