Keep It Funky...When You First Heard About Jennifer Lopez In The 90s You Had Mami Fever...

[Devil Plisken…CMS]

Before you knew enough about her to form an opinion...all you had to go off was the early shyt. Selena, Money Train, U-Turn etc

Then this guy Puffy put out the Mami Fever anthem



Could have imagined if Puffy put out a video for this? Crazy Times...fast forward a couple of years it seemed like half the nikkax on Migente was black

Eventually things settled down and nikkax came back home...Some however got dual citizenship up in Dykman

Most nikkax go through a Mami Phase

 

[Kiyoshi-Dono]

I mean
That shyt was pushed heavy on the airwaves
Both TV/Radio
Couldn’t escape it growing up in Houston
I’ll even keep it a buck
Sofia Vergara was the first “Latina”
To catch my eye outside of Selena
She had a traveling show on Telemundo
Fuera de Serie
Followed by Ritmo Latino
It was a latin “Soul Train”
And really before JLo was Jessica Alba for me
Idle Hands
IYKYK
Then Jlo wore that Versace dress
And shyt changed
Then I dated two latinas in college
Very brief and never again
But the one thing I miss and can’t really find anymore
TSU Radio on Saturday night
Played Latin Jazz
That some amazing shyt

 

[Swagnificent]

It was all about Janet and J-Lo in the 90s. Beyonce and Ashanti then took over in the 2000s.

But yeah nikkas was fiendin for her. I was too young to really be that into her or any woman but I still remember the hype.

 

[semicko82]

It was all about Janet and J-Lo in the 90s. Beyonce and Ashanti then took over in the 2000s.

But yeah nikkas was fiendin for her. I was too young to really be that into her or any woman but I still remember the hype.

Halle had the 90s locked

 

[PerrinN]

Before the internet was popping, music videos were the best to get some stimulation, that and staying up late on Fridays and Saturdays watching showtime and cinemax

 

[semicko82]

Before the internet was popping, music videos were the best to get some stimulation, that and staying up late on Fridays and Saturdays watching showtime and cinemax

BET uncut

 

[Remote]

I never saw the hype around Jennifer Lopez. Ever.

She was at her peak attractiveness to me in Money Train.

But she never had the sex appeal that even a Rosie Perez or Salma Hayek had.

She's a manufactured "icon".

I remember when she was cast as Selena, nobody could understand that decision. She didn't have anything close to the body Selena had, couldn't sing (and still can't) and couldn't act.

 

[Swagnificent]

Halle had the 90s locked

True.

But I just remember the question J-Lo or Janet being the go to which bad bytch would you take in pop culture back then. I personally thought Halle was the baddest but she didn't get mentioned as much as Janet and J-Lo in black culture.

 

[Kliq_Souf]

I was in love


My homies sister had her CD, and I stole the booklet just to look at it... mind u I was 8 years old

 

[num123]

I sort of remember her on ILC ( All of the fly girls were cool) but first time i really got sprung was seeing Anaconda in the theater when i was 12:

Spoiler

 

[Kliq_Souf]

And I was

when this dropped

 

[Rell84shots]

True.

But I just remember the question J-Lo or Janet being the go to which bad bytch would you take in pop culture back then. I personally thought Halle was the baddest but she didn't get mentioned as much as Janet and J-Lo in black culture.

I don't know any black man that didn't have Halle's name in their mouth in the 90s. If we're going to be honest we really wasn't checking for Jlo until Diddy's "Been Around the World" video. Another person ya'll are sleeping on is Lela Rochon, she looks terrible now but she was a dime in the 90s.

 

[Dafunkdoc_Unlimited]

Nah, us 'Old Heads' got over Latinas back in the mid-late-80's when Latin Freestyle was big in the Tri-State......​

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[SNYC]

What he said +


That Lisa Lisa look with the hair over the eye

 

[SATAN]

Jennifer Lopez always has been so overrated. Just a generic white girl. A 90's industry plant. Couldn't sing and the "ass" she had couldn't compare to a black woman's


bytch couldn't even actually speak Spanish