I'm Real/I'm Real (Murder Remix)

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"I'm Real"

Single by Jennifer Lopez featuring Ja Rule
From the albums J. Lo, J To Tha L-O!: The Remixes and Pain Is Love
Released	2001
Format	12" maxi single
Genre	Pop/R&B
Length	4:57/4:22 (remix)
Label	Epic
Writers	Jennifer Lopez Ja Rule Irv Gotti Cory Rooney Troy Oliver LeShan Lewis Rick James
Producers	Troy Oliver Cory Rooney LeShan Lewis
Director	Dave Meyers
Certification
Chart positions	#1 U.S. #4 UK #6 CAN
Jennifer Lopez singles chronology
"Ain't It Funny" (2001)	"I'm Real/I'm Real (Murder Remix)" (2001)	"Ain't It Funny (Murder Remix)" (2002)
Ja Rule singles chronology
"I Cry" (2001)	"I'm Real/I'm Real (Murder Remix)" (2001)	"Livin' It Up" (2001)

"I'm Real" is the name of two songs by Jennifer Lopez. One is the song taken from her 2001 second album J. Lo, and the other is the "I'm Real (Murder Remix)", which features rapper Ja Rule of The Inc. Records (formerly known as Murder Inc. Records), included on the special edition of Lopez's second album and also taken from her 2002 remix album J To Tha L-O!: The Remixes. The remix reached number one in the U.S. charts on September 8, 2001, and remained there for five weeks. Ja Rule had been brought in after disappointing sales of "Play", the second single from J. Lo. Singer Ashanti also provided backing vocals on the Murder Remix.

The chart position of the "Murder Remix" was boosted by radio play of the album track, which lead to complaints of unfairness and change of Billboard policy in 2002. Afterwards, airplay of identically named songs but with substantially different melodies was not combined when computing chart positions. Lopez' follow-up was "Ain't It Funny (Murder Remix)", another Ja Rule remix, which also reached number one in the U.S.

1 Controversy
2 Charts
3 Track listings and formats
4 UK edition
5 Australia edition
6 See also

[edit] Controversy

Although the song was relatively successful there is a bit of controversy over the use of the single's sample and the structure of the song. There have been reports that the sample used for "I'm Real" was originally planned to be used for Mariah Carey's "Loverboy". According to the music publisher of the song "Firecracker", Carey called to license a sample of the song which had never been sampled before and within a month Lopez called to do the same.

Irv Gotti, who produced "I'm Real," openly admitted during an interview with XXL magizine that Tommy Mottola contacted him with instructions to create a song that sounded exactly like a song he had made with Carey for the Glitter soundtrack. [1]

The remix also featured the notorious line, "I tell them niggas mind their biz, but they don't hear me though", sung by Lopez and seldomly censored on the radio.

[edit] Charts

Year	Chart	Position
2002	U.S. Billboard Hot 100	1
2002	U.S. Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs	2
2002	U.S. Top 40 Tracks	1
2002	U.S. Top 40 Mainstream	1
2002	U.S. Rhythmic Top 40	1
2002	U.S. Hot Dance Singles Sales	6
2002	U.S. Hot Latin Pop Airplay	28
2002	U.S. Latin Tropical Airplay	21
2002	UK Singles Chart	4
2002	Canadian Singles Chart	6