J.Lo’s Career-Maker With Ja Rule Almost Didn’t Happen

Roger Friedman of FoxNews.com has more details on the contentious lawsuit which TVT Records recently won against Def Jam, including how the ‘I’m Real’ track Jennifer Lopez did with Ja Rule, much to Mariah Carey’s ire, happened. Def Jam president Lyor Cohen revealed in court testimony, “Irv [Gotti] in the middle of [recording a] Ja Rule album went and was asked to do a record for J.Lo. And then he put Ja Rule on it, stripped Ja Rule on it. And I said, you know, this could be devastating to our release. I don’t think you should do this. He went ahead and did it anyhow. I did send Epic [J.Lo's label, overseen by Tommy Mottola] a letter not to allow them to do it.” After presumable pressure by Mottola to release the track, the project proceeded, and Mariah had to scrap everything she’d done at the last minute. Read more.