While Jennifer Lopez has landed herself several platinum-selling hits since her rise to fame with her debut album On the 6 in 1999, J. Lo is no stranger to causing controversy regarding how she ends up getting her songs.

In the early ‘00s, it was rumored that the On The Floor superstar was involved in a not-so-secret feud with Mariah Carey, who accused the singer of stealing her songs, such as the time she sampled Yellow Magic Orchestra’s Firecracker, just months after Carey has used it for her 2001 song Loverboy.

That very same year, Lopez released I’m Real, which coincidentally happened to use the same sample amid reports the mother-of-two had also gotten close with Carey’s ex-husband, Tommy Mottola. So how does Ashanti comes into the mix of things?

Did Jennifer Lopez 'Steal' Ashanti's Songs?

While Ashanti has never openly admitted to sharing feud with Jennifer Lopez, the R&B songstress has certainly hinted that she was often overlooked because of the success J. Lo had with the help of Ja Rule and Irv Gotti.

Aside from being accused of “stealing” the same sample song that Carey used for Loverboy in the very same year, Lopez was also given songs that were initially intended for Ashanti, which left the 39-year-old feeling irritated given that she had just landed her first taste of success after a string of hits with Ja Rule, including Always On Time.

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In September 2001, Lopez released I’m Real, lifted from her second studio album J. Lo, but according to Ashanti, the song was supposedly being saved for the latter’s self-titled debut album.

For whatever reason, Gotti, who signed Ashanti to his record label Murda Inc, had handed the track over to Lopez - but this was after the track was already recorded and mixed with Ashanti’s vocals, which is why you still hear her background vocals in Lopez’s version.

Speaking about the incident, Ashanti said: “It was bittersweet because I was really excited because it was J. Lo, you know what I mean? But I was so mad at Irv, cause I was like ‘You know I wanted that record!’”

A similar situation occurred around the same time with Fat Joe’s smash hit What’s Luv?, which peaked at No. 2 on the Billboard Hot 100 and went on to sell over four million copies worldwide.

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During a recent Instagram Live between the two, Joe recalled how Ashanti was almost replaced by Lopez, and it wasn’t shocking to wonder why - J. Lo was having tremendous success working with Gotti, but Ashanti’s career was undoubtedly being affected because of it.

During the Instagram Live session, Joe told his longtime collaborator: “[Murder Inc boss] Irv [Gotti] and Ja had called me, and they woke me up [at] like three in the morning, and they say, “Yo, come down, we made a song for you.”

“I go to the studio, it was like four in the morning. They played “What’s Luv?” and you on it. And they were telling me, ‘Yo, this is for you and J-Lo. We want the Latinos on this.’”

Lopez’s song Ain’t It Funny (Murder Remix), which hit stores as an official single in February 2002, was also rumored to have been intended for an Ashanti project, which isn’t hard to believe since J. Lo - once again - decided to keep her vocals on the chorus.

In other words, there was already a full version recorded with Ashanti, but after the track was passed over to Lopez, they chopped it up and kept some of the edits sang by the Only U hitmaker, which sounds bizarre and unfair, but she would’ve still gotten paid for her involvement either way.

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She’s credited as a background vocalist and songwriter, so she certainly didn’t miss out on any money… aside from being the lead artist on a song that was initially intended for her album.

Of course, these aren’t the only controversies Lopez has faced in her career when it comes to obtaining some of her songs, after ending up in a feud with Usher, who was initially expected to have her 2005 hit Get Right featured on his 2004 diamond-selling album, Confessions.

Her song Play was co-written by Christina Milian, who was supposed to have the track on her sophomore project, but oddly enough, it was also passed over to the Ain’t Your Momma singer in the end.

So, while there's no denying that Lopez has had a tremendous amount of success with the singles she's released in the past 23 years, her biggest hits all seem to have an interesting backstory to how they ended up in her possession.

It's arguable whether or not J. Lo knew about the incidents concerning Ashanti, but given that this wasn't a one-time thing, wouldn't she have been made aware of the situation?

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