In reply to Gee.

Totally agree. The majority of all the major R&B/hip-hop hits from the last 2 decades were written and/or produced by him; Usher wouldn't be the only male artist to get a Diamond plaque for pure sales this century if it wasn't for JD, and Mariah Carey would have never come back from irrelevancy if he hadn't produced her 'Mimi' album. This honor is LONG overdue for him.