THE YEAR IS 2002!
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This features guest vocals by rappers Jadakiss and Styles. Styles began serving an eight-month jail sentence for assault shortly after shooting the video.
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This was one of the first big hits to use a gang songwriting technique, with various producers, songwriters and vocalists contributing to a song and earning writer credits, and others added because of samples. On “Jenny From The Block,” 11 different people are credited as writers. Here’s the breakdown:
Jennifer Lopez – singer
Jadakiss (Jason Phillips) – rapper
Styles (David Styles) – rapper
Troy Oliver – producer, keyboards, drum programming
Poke And Tone (Jean-Claude Olivier and Samuel Barnes) – producers
Cory Rooney – producer
Scott Sterling – songwriter
Andre Deyo – songwriter
Fernando Arbex – sample
KRS-One (Lawrence Parker)- sample
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This got a lot of publicity as part of the media fascination with J.Lo. She was on countless magazine covers and constantly in the news because of her impending marriage to Ben Affleck, who appears in the video. Lopez and Affleck never made it to the altar – the couple split up in 2004 and recently rekindled their romance.
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Lopez was the first person to have a movie (The Wedding Planner) and an album (J.Lo) go #1 in the same week (February 10, 2001).
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