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...chats in a common room in Darkchild, a TV plays old Michael Jordan clips and Jerkins seems slightly distracted by it. Scratch that--inspired by it is the right word. On the screen, M.J. drives, elevates, shoots--nothing but net. "That's what I want to be right there," says Jerkins. "I want to be the greatest. I want to get to that level. Watching him play makes me want to go into the studio and write a song...
...soul, New Jersey probably isn't the first place you'd look. But if you take the Garden State Parkway south from New York City and exit in the town of Pleasantville, after a few turns you'll find a squat, beige building with a sign outside that reads DARKCHILD STUDIOS. The immediate vicinity seems intensely, iconically suburban--there's even a crossing guard out front with a hand-held stop sign--but as it turns out, Pleasantville is a good deal funkier than its name might suggest...
...Darkchild is owned and operated by Rodney Jerkins, the hottest producer/songwriter in pop music today. He's the man behind Jennifer Lopez's hit If You Had My Love, a single so irresistibly sexy that it managed to make early skeptics stop thinking about Don Johnson and Eddie Murphy and all the other very valid reasons actors shouldn't sing. Jerkins' song Say My Name went to No. 1 for the vocal quartet Destiny's Child, and he also produced the most interesting track on Oops!...I Did It Again (Jive), the anticipated new CD from Britney Spears that...
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