Did J.Lo steal ideas from Mariah?
Before her breakdown last summer, Mariah Carey complained that Jennifer Lopez was copying ideas from advance tracks of Carey's then-unreleased Glitter soundtrack, claiming that Sony Music head Tommy Mottola (Carey's ex-husband) leaked the recordings to his new diva.
Now, Murder Inc. label chief Irv Gotti, who produced both Glitter's "If We" and Lopez's popular remix of "I'm Real", two similar-sounding duets pairing the singers with rapper Ja Rule, is corroborating Carey's story. In hip-hop magazine XXL, Gotti says, "Ja wrote a song with him and Mariah singing back and forth on the track. I get a call from Tommy Mottola, who I have a great relationship with, and he's like, 'I need you to do me a favor. I want you to do this remix for Jennifer Lopez. I want you to put Ja on the record.' I immediately knew what he was doing because we just finished the Mariah record."
Even Lopez's initial version of "I'm Real", the Ja-free mix that appeared on her J.Lo album a year ago, was a swipe, Carey said, taking an obscure sample she had used in her first version of Glitter's Loverboy. Lopez's song was released first, so Carey had to make a hasty re-recording of "Loverboy" using a sample of Cameo's Candy instead, EW.com reports. (The Rep) Many thanks to Mariah Buzz.
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