Janet Jackson has "Someone to Call My Lover" - and rap impresario Jermaine Dupri says it was never Justin Timberlake.
Breaking 18 months of silence, Dupri says he and Jackson have been a couple since he remixed her 2001 hit "Someone."
"We were really just friends," Dupri tells the February issue of Honey magazine. "Then it just happened - we started kicking it."
Dupri says he's coming clean because "A lot of people come up with b-- that Janet has been with this one and that one when we were together.
"One time, someone said something about me getting mad at Janet for being in a club with Justin, and that didn't really happen."
Dupri, who is looking at a $2.5 million back-tax bill from the IRS, recently signed on as Antonio (L.A.) Reid's right-hand man at Arista records.
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