While recording his fourth studio album, Confessions (2004), American recording artist Usher collaborated with record producer Rich Harrison; only one of the songs they did together, "Take Your Hand", made the album's final track listing. However, one of the songs that missed the album's track listing was "Ride", composed by Harrison, although it was made available as a 12-inch club record and as a leaked internet download. Harrison decided to rework the song for Lopez after opting to give "1 Thing" to Amerie over her The resulting "Get Right" contained the "same horn track" and "same vocal guidelines" as "Ride". Sources reported that Usher was unhappy and wanted publishing credits, because he "couldn't get it right" for Confessions, but didn't expect it to be used by someone else; "I'd better get some of the publishing rights or else," he was allegedly quoted saying.

According to MTV News, most of Usher's lyrics to "Ride" differ from Lopez's "Get Right". In one verse, he sings: "It's the way that you look at me, piques my curiosity". "I'm wondering what you're feeling tonight/ We never chilled, we never spent no time/ So let's take a minute/ ... Show you what I'm feeling inside/ Baby, hold on, tonight we're gonna ride." As "Ride" had been circulating online for months, following the release of "Get Right", club DJs began playing the songs back-to-back, "letting listeners hear two big-name singers going head-to-head over the same beat".
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Usher's version: https://www.youtube.com/w...XDn57VlxqU

JLo´s If You Had My Love sounds like Chante Moore´s song If I Gave Love. Both written by Rodney Jerkins, both released in 1999.

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KoolEaze said:

JLo´s "If You Had My Love" sounds like Chante Moore´s song "If I Gave Love." Both written by Rodney Jerkins, both released in 1999.

There's a story about that. Rodney basically just rewrote the song for J-Lo at Puffy's insisting on it; and Chante's got ignored, big time.

And here's Chante talking about it. Stars at 5:11 mark.

Here's a comparison video of the two songs.

TrivialPursuit said:

KoolEaze said:

JLo´s "If You Had My Love" sounds like Chante Moore´s song "If I Gave Love." Both written by Rodney Jerkins, both released in 1999.

There's a story about that. Rodney basically just rewrote the song for J-Lo at Puffy's insisting on it; and Chante's got ignored, big time.

And here's Chante talking about it. Stars at 5:11 mark.

Here's a comparison video of the two songs.

Wow, thanks, I never knew that but had been wondering about it eversince I bought Chanté Moore´s album.

Thanks a lot, very much appreciated.

TrivialPursuit said:

KoolEaze said:

JLo´s "If You Had My Love" sounds like Chante Moore´s song "If I Gave Love." Both written by Rodney Jerkins, both released in 1999.

There's a story about that. Rodney basically just rewrote the song for J-Lo at Puffy's insisting on it; and Chante's got ignored, big time.

And here's Chante talking about it. Stars at 5:11 mark.

Here's a comparison video of the two songs.

Oh wow. Thanks. I never knew Chante's song existed

J Lo has a history of not treating artists right. I know she basically forced Ashanti to give her songs to her. Ashanti got paid for writing of coruse, but she was also SINGING on J Lo's songs . People call it ghostsinging. I think J Lo sang, but the way they mixed it, Ashanti's voice is really theone we hear lol. There's a few videos about it on YouTube. I think this is the first on I saw: https://www.youtube.com/w...-ew8LVt-uQ

beast44 said:

Oh wow. Thanks. I never knew Chante's song existed

J Lo has a history of not treating artists right. I know she basically forced Ashanti to give her songs to her. Ashanti got paid for writing of coruse, but she was also SINGING on J Lo's songs . People call it ghostsinging. I think J Lo sang, but the way they mixed it, Ashanti's voice is really theone we hear lol. There's a few videos about it on YouTube. I think this is the first on I saw: https://www.youtube.com/w...-ew8LVt-uQ

And that's part of the problem.

I don't really blame J-Lo for this. It's the people around her. While she did Selena, she didn't have that sorta clout to walk into a control room and demand a song. But her boyfriend Puffy sure could, and did.

As far as ghostsinging, maybe. Who knows. Lotta trickery in the music industry. Sheryl Crow even talks about singing on records that we didn't realize was her voice.