blackpassing:

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blackberryshawty:

Mariah Carey doesn’t get enough credit for essentially creating the concept of the “pop smash with a featured rap verse” like

Excuse me but while Mariah pioneered the idea, it was Jlo who made the Rent-a-Rapper a pop necessity

Tommy Matolla stole the rights to the sample that Mariah was going to use for a song she had just recorded with Ja Rule… Tommy then gave the sample to JLo and put Ja Rule on the track which became that monster summer bop “Im Real”. He literally jacked Mariah’s concept and gave it to his new artist…and JLo got all the credit for this revolutionary collab and became this crossover artist with an urban appeal…something Mariah had been fighting for her entire career…….so IT WAS STILL MARIAH who created the blueprint even for Ms. Lopez