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Janet Jackson may have just wrapped her super successful Vegas residency a few weeks ago after a 3-month stint, but the legend and icon has no signs of slowing down any time soon.
In addition to kicking off a series of shows around the globe to celebrate the 30th Anniversary of her groundbreaking ‘Rhythm Nation’ album this fall, it seems as though Janet has some more new music on the way according to her dear friend and collaborator Jimmy Jam.
The news came via HollywoodLife who caught up with Jimmy Jam at the City Of Hope’s 15th Annual Songs Of Hope event and he spilled the tea on a new song that will appear on he and Terry Lewis‘ upcoming project.
HollywoodLife: Are you looking forward to seeing Snoop Dogg here tonight?
Jimmy Jam: “I am definitely planning to hit up Snoop Dogg. I’ve been trying to reach him for a little while and haven’t been able to connect with him, so I’m going to grab him tonight, for sure. We’re doing a Jam and Lewis album, which is something we have never done.”
“We started doing the album about 35 years ago or so, and the story goes that we had created some tracks for our album when we were working on the Control album with Janet Jackson. She heard one of the tracks and took it for her album, and it ended up becoming ‘What Have You Done For Me Lately.’ So it really started her career and ended ours, as far as our album goes, but it worked out really well. So now, 35 years later we decided that we are doing the album. One of the songs we have is a song with Morris Day and Jerome from Morris Day and The Time, and we would love to put Snoop Dog on that song.”
What about Janet Jackson is she on a song?
“Our song with her, at least her part of it is done. We’re going to add a few things to it, but she is on the album, and she has a beautiful song on there.”
Congrats on the 30th anniversary of Rhythm Nation. Did you talk to Janet about it?
“It’s the 30th anniversary of rhythm nation it actually came out today so thank you! I did talk to Janet. We’ve been texting each other back-and-forth. She’s actually going to be in the US and is going to do a date in San Francisco over the weekend. So she invited us to come down there and see her we might go do that we might.”
This forthcoming song on the Jam & Lewis project will be Janet’s first new song since 2018’s ‘Made For Now,’ her collaboration with Daddy Yankee. Meanwhile, Janet’s last studio album was 2015’s Unbreakable and a new project is said to be in the works.
