Why Ja Rule didn’t thoughts Jennifer Lopez utilizing the N-word on his observe

Queens emcee and star of Homicide Inc, Ja Rule, was a hip-hop star throughout the late Nineteen Nineties and early 2000s. The lyricist (actual identify Jeffrey Atkins) dominated the charts on the flip of the millennium, and with hits corresponding to ‘Always On Time’ and ‘Mesmerize’, the musician was unstoppable.

In a current interview, Ja Rule defended the Bronx vocalist Jennifer Lopez for her use of the N-word on the ‘I’m Actual’ remix in 2001. Nonetheless, on the time, the singer acquired a number of backlash for it. Nonetheless, Atkins nonetheless stands by his alternative to permit Lopez to make use of the phrase.

Jennifer Lopez was one of the biggest R’n’B stars of the late-1990s. With hits corresponding to ‘If You Had My Love’ and ‘Waiting For Tonight,’ the Bronx singer and actress was a celebrity. Nonetheless, she had but to enchantment to the city market and subsequently recruited the likes of Ja Rule to characteristic on her songs.

Rule and Lopez collaborated on two of their largest hits in 2001. The only ‘I’m Actual’ featured on Lopez’s second album, J.Lo, whereas the ‘I’m Actual (Homicide Remix)’ featured on Ja Rule’s challenge, Ache Is Love, in addition to Lopez’s LP, J to tha L–O! The Remixes.

The remix, which was written totally by Atkins, heard Lopez sing, “Now people screaming ‘What the deal with you and so-and-so’ / I tell ’em n*ggas mind their biz but they don’t hear me though.” Nonetheless, in an interview with DJ Vlad for Vlad TV, Ja Rule unveiled he sees no downside with it, arguing Lopez’s Spanish roots give her a move to say the N-word.

Opening up about it, Atkins defined, “It’s kind of an unwritten thing that Spanish and Puerto Ricans and n*ggas, we’re all kind of in the same family. So it’s like, why can’t she say n*gga? All of my Spanish n*ggas I know say n*gga. I never looked at them in any way and said, ‘Yo, watch that.’”

He continued, “I think they were upset because they don’t see her as ‘Jenny From The Block’ or Jenny from the Bronx. They see her as this icon. Matter of factly, some people probably see her as white. They don’t understand the dialogue that is used in our hoods.”

On the time of the backlash, Lopez was labelled a racist. by ABC Information, on the time she launched a press release to The Related Press, saying the notion that she’s racist is “absurd and hateful.” You may hear the music within the video under