With the Band Aid 20 team having done such a good job in re-inventing 'Do They Know It's Christmas', the American music community are going to see if they can do something inferior with the already inferior 'We Are The World'. That is to say, Sony signed rapper Jermaine Dupri has announced he is planning on organising a re-recording of the US's big charity song. Dupri hopes to persuade a string of a-list US music stars to take part in the charity recording shortly after the Grammy Awards in LA in Feb.
Commenting on the project, Dupri told reporters this weekend: "It's called We Are The Future. Quincy Jones called me, he asked me to do it. We're just gonna make it something extravagant. We gonna try to re-create, follow in the footsteps of those who made a big record before, like Michael Jackson, Quincy and Lionel Richie."
As for which artists Dupri hopes to involve he continued: "Hopefully Usher will be there, Kanye West, JAY-Z - all the bigwigs. We want to do what they did way back when. I'm looking forward to that. For Quincy to call me, that's my idol. I'm trying to make sure it's right."