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Some interesting stuff! Looks like Jennifer Lopez is gonna go down 
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Mariah Carey Finds Support For Claims That 'Glitter' Was Sabotaged
Fri Apr 5, 6:39 PM ET
(4/5/02, 7 a.m. ET) -- Irv Gotti, Ja Rule's executive producer, says he was called last year to sabotage Mariah Carey's Glitter album.
Sony Music head Tommy Mottola allegedly called Gotti and asked him to produce a remix for Jennifer Lopez's "I'm Real" featuring Ja Rule that would scoop a collaboration Gotti and Ja Rule had in the works for Carey's Glitter album, Gotti told the hip-hop magazine XXL.
"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,'" Gotti told the magazine. "Immediately, I knew what he was doing because he just finished the Mariah record.'"
When LAUNCH spoke to Ja Rule in August, he explained receiving the request to work with Lopez.
"I got a call from J. Lo and them, they heard the record that I did for her (Mariah) somehow, and they thought the record was like incredible. So they called me and said, 'We want you to do a record for J. Lo's new single, 'I'm Real,' but we need it now. Like right now. We're shooting the video Saturday.' It was like Thursday, I got the call. So they bring the record over, and drop it off. Like with no instructions, like, 'Do what you want Ja.' And that was the whole awkward thing about it, like, 'What do you mean? Do what I want.' I was like, 'I've never wrote a whole R&B record,' and it just shocked me. And he was like, 'Yeah, do what you want with it.'"
"If We," Ja Rule's R&B songwriting credit for Carey's Glitter, would have marked his R&B debut, but the effort was sideswiped by the summer release of J. Lo's "I'm Real" remix, which Ja Rule co-wrote.
Carey alluded to another dispute with the J. Lo album in June, when she told MTV that a sample she intended to use for Glitter was stolen by an artist. Though Carey didn't name names, it was later revealed that her intentions to sample Yellow Magic Orchestra's "Firecracker" for her song "Loverboy" were bested by the J. Lo's album version of "I'm Real" which samples the '70s song.
Carey later replaced the Yellow Magic Orchestra clip with a portion of Cameo's "Candy."
Mottola, who is also Carey's former husband, was rumored to be feuding with Carey, who left Sony's Columbia Records for a recording contact with Virgin Records. The poor sales of the Glitter soundtrack and movie prompted Carey to be released from the label last fall.
Spokespersons for Lopez, Mottola, Ja Rule, and Irv Gotti did not reply to LAUNCH by press time.
-- Billy Johnson Jr., Los Angeles
Source: Yahoo News
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MTV News around Europe also published the story - titled "J. Lo Not Real?"
Before her breakdown last summer, Mariah Carey complained that Jennifer Lopez was copying musical ideas from advance tracks of Carey's then-unreleased ''Glitter'' soundtrack, claiming that Sony Music head Tommy Mottola (Carey's ex-husband) had leaked the recordings to his new diva. Now Carey's story is being corroborated by Murder Inc. label chief Irv Gotti, who produced both ''Glitter'''s ''If We'' and Lopez' popular remix of ''I'm Real,'' two similar-sounding duets pairing the singers with rapper Ja Rule.
In an interview in the current issue of 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 upbeat, Ja-free mix that appeared on her ''J. Lo'' album a year ago, was a swipe, Carey had said, taking an obscure sample she had used in her first version of ''Glitter'''s ''Loverboy.'' That sample was from an out-of-print 1978 recording of ''Firecracker'' by Japanese electronica pioneers Yellow Magic Orchestra, which was itself a cover of a late 1950s composition by surf/lounge instrumentalist Martin Denny. On Tuesday, Denny's publisher told FoxNews.com that no one had ever contacted him about sampling the song until Carey requested it for ''Loverboy,'' but three weeks later, Lopez asked to license it as well, and her recording was released first. ''When Jennifer Lopez's record came out, and had the exact same song,'' a Carey associate told FoxNews, ''we knew she had a right to be paranoid. We couldn't believe it.''
Carey had to make a hasty rerecording of ''Loverboy'' using a sample of Cameo's ''Candy'' instead, one of the few tunes that would fit what had already been shot for the film. Sony, which had initially dismissed the two uses of the same arcane, hard-to-find, previously ignored sample as coincidence , denied this week that either version of ''I'm Real'' was stolen from Carey, with a spokesperson telling FoxNews that the beat-biting accusations were ''absolutely untrue.''
Is Tommy Trying to Ruin Mariah?
Mike was listening to the Wendy Williams show on the radio and this is what he heard:
"I was listening to "The Wendy Williams Experience" today on WBLS 107.5 here in NYC and she was mentioning the story about how Irv Gotti admitted to the "Glitter" sabotage. She mentioned that the story is getting a lot of press and then stated that she too was asked by Tommy Mottola about a year ago to sabotage Mariah. She didn't give much details (she is saving those for her book that she is writing) but did say that there was a "large sum of money at the end of that phone conversation--in the 5-digit area"
Basically what she alluded to was that Tommy tried to offer Wendy money to say false rumors on-air to damage Mariah's reputation. She said he went as far as saying that she wouldn't have to do anything but talk, that he would supply all the fuel and false stories. She declined the money and hung up the phone.
As you may be aware, Wendy's radio show is the most listened to afternoon radio program in NY and can be heard around the country in syndication. Having Wendy trash Mariah would have reached the masses."
Source: MTV Europe
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Mariah Carey Finds Support For Claims That 'Glitter' Was Sabotaged
Fri Apr 5, 6:39 PM ET
(4/5/02, 7 a.m. ET) -- Irv Gotti, Ja Rule's executive producer, says he was called last year to sabotage Mariah Carey's Glitter album.
Sony Music head Tommy Mottola allegedly called Gotti and asked him to produce a remix for Jennifer Lopez's "I'm Real" featuring Ja Rule that would scoop a collaboration Gotti and Ja Rule had in the works for Carey's Glitter album, Gotti told the hip-hop magazine XXL.
"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,'" Gotti told the magazine. "Immediately, I knew what he was doing because he just finished the Mariah record.'"
When LAUNCH spoke to Ja Rule in August, he explained receiving the request to work with Lopez.
"I got a call from J. Lo and them, they heard the record that I did for her (Mariah) somehow, and they thought the record was like incredible. So they called me and said, 'We want you to do a record for J. Lo's new single, 'I'm Real,' but we need it now. Like right now. We're shooting the video Saturday.' It was like Thursday, I got the call. So they bring the record over, and drop it off. Like with no instructions, like, 'Do what you want Ja.' And that was the whole awkward thing about it, like, 'What do you mean? Do what I want.' I was like, 'I've never wrote a whole R&B record,' and it just shocked me. And he was like, 'Yeah, do what you want with it.'"
"If We," Ja Rule's R&B songwriting credit for Carey's Glitter, would have marked his R&B debut, but the effort was sideswiped by the summer release of J. Lo's "I'm Real" remix, which Ja Rule co-wrote.
Carey alluded to another dispute with the J. Lo album in June, when she told MTV that a sample she intended to use for Glitter was stolen by an artist. Though Carey didn't name names, it was later revealed that her intentions to sample Yellow Magic Orchestra's "Firecracker" for her song "Loverboy" were bested by the J. Lo's album version of "I'm Real" which samples the '70s song.
Carey later replaced the Yellow Magic Orchestra clip with a portion of Cameo's "Candy."
Mottola, who is also Carey's former husband, was rumored to be feuding with Carey, who left Sony's Columbia Records for a recording contact with Virgin Records. The poor sales of the Glitter soundtrack and movie prompted Carey to be released from the label last fall.
Spokespersons for Lopez, Mottola, Ja Rule, and Irv Gotti did not reply to LAUNCH by press time.
-- Billy Johnson Jr., Los Angeles
Source: Yahoo News
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MTV News around Europe also published the story - titled "J. Lo Not Real?"
Before her breakdown last summer, Mariah Carey complained that Jennifer Lopez was copying musical ideas from advance tracks of Carey's then-unreleased ''Glitter'' soundtrack, claiming that Sony Music head Tommy Mottola (Carey's ex-husband) had leaked the recordings to his new diva. Now Carey's story is being corroborated by Murder Inc. label chief Irv Gotti, who produced both ''Glitter'''s ''If We'' and Lopez' popular remix of ''I'm Real,'' two similar-sounding duets pairing the singers with rapper Ja Rule.
In an interview in the current issue of 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 upbeat, Ja-free mix that appeared on her ''J. Lo'' album a year ago, was a swipe, Carey had said, taking an obscure sample she had used in her first version of ''Glitter'''s ''Loverboy.'' That sample was from an out-of-print 1978 recording of ''Firecracker'' by Japanese electronica pioneers Yellow Magic Orchestra, which was itself a cover of a late 1950s composition by surf/lounge instrumentalist Martin Denny. On Tuesday, Denny's publisher told FoxNews.com that no one had ever contacted him about sampling the song until Carey requested it for ''Loverboy,'' but three weeks later, Lopez asked to license it as well, and her recording was released first. ''When Jennifer Lopez's record came out, and had the exact same song,'' a Carey associate told FoxNews, ''we knew she had a right to be paranoid. We couldn't believe it.''
Carey had to make a hasty rerecording of ''Loverboy'' using a sample of Cameo's ''Candy'' instead, one of the few tunes that would fit what had already been shot for the film. Sony, which had initially dismissed the two uses of the same arcane, hard-to-find, previously ignored sample as coincidence , denied this week that either version of ''I'm Real'' was stolen from Carey, with a spokesperson telling FoxNews that the beat-biting accusations were ''absolutely untrue.''
Is Tommy Trying to Ruin Mariah?
Mike was listening to the Wendy Williams show on the radio and this is what he heard:
"I was listening to "The Wendy Williams Experience" today on WBLS 107.5 here in NYC and she was mentioning the story about how Irv Gotti admitted to the "Glitter" sabotage. She mentioned that the story is getting a lot of press and then stated that she too was asked by Tommy Mottola about a year ago to sabotage Mariah. She didn't give much details (she is saving those for her book that she is writing) but did say that there was a "large sum of money at the end of that phone conversation--in the 5-digit area"
Basically what she alluded to was that Tommy tried to offer Wendy money to say false rumors on-air to damage Mariah's reputation. She said he went as far as saying that she wouldn't have to do anything but talk, that he would supply all the fuel and false stories. She declined the money and hung up the phone.
As you may be aware, Wendy's radio show is the most listened to afternoon radio program in NY and can be heard around the country in syndication. Having Wendy trash Mariah would have reached the masses."
Source: MTV Europe
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