Ashanti almost lost What’s Luv? track to Jennifer Lopez

peoplemagazine.co.za:

R&B star Ashanti was almost replaced on Fat Joe’s 2001 hit What’s Luv? by Jennifer Lopez, according to the rapper himself.

The hip-hop heavyweight shared the news in an Instagram Live chat with Ashanti on Friday, revealing her Murder Inc Records boss Irv Gotti and frequent collaborator Ja Rule had initially pitched him the idea of having J.Lo record over the Baby singer’s demo vocals.

Recalling how the track came about, Fat Joe said, “Irv and Ja had called me, and they woke me up (at) like three in the morning, and they say, ‘Yo, come down (to the studio), we made a song for you.’ “I go to the studio, it was like four in the morning.