Jennifer Lopez finally revealed the origin of her nickname, J. Lo.“J. Lo came from Heavy D,” the Grammy nominee, 50, told fellow World of Dance judges Ne-Yo and Derek Hough on the Tuesday, July 21, episode. “Remember Heavy D, the rapper?
He would come into the studio when I was making my first album, and he would always call me Jenny Lo.”Lopez recalled that she had been dating Sean “Diddy” Combs at the time, and their high-profile relationship also played a role in her decision to use the moniker.“Puffy and Jennifer Lo and Jenny Lo was showing up in records.
Like, they were talking about us in records and stuff like that,” she explained. “So I was like, ‘I’m gonna name the album J.Lo.’”Ne-Yo (real name Shaffer Smith), for his part, told the.
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