Many critics have said that Jermaine Dupri turned his back on his close friend/artist Da Brat who is currently serving time in prison. As you may recall Da Brat was involved in a violent altercation with a aspiring model named Shayla Steven who was waitressing at a local nightclub owned by Jermaine Dupri in Atlanta. Da Brat struck the girl with a bottle which left her with multiple lacerations on her face. Brat, real name Shawntae Harris, was sentenced to three years in prison back in 2008. Dupri says that the rumors of him abandoning Da Brat isn’t true. According to Dupri, he is in regular contact with Da Brat, who is serving her time at Arrendale Federal Prison in Alto Georgia. “I spoke to her via letters back and forth and she’s good. She’s ready to come home and do what she gotta do,” Jermaine Dupri told V-103’s Ryan Cameron this morning. Dupri admitted that he hasn’t been to see Da Brat since her incarceration. He told Da Brat his reasoning in several of the letters he has written to her. “I felt a certain way about seeing Brat in jail…I would prefer dealing with getting her out and seeing that day as opposed to going to see her…”