When did the "JLo Booty" myth start and why did we allow it to continue?

[Hey_zeus]

Non black people with often considered "black" characteristics always get overrated by the main stream.

 

[Supa]

That was exactly what I was talking about. But dude said it was butt pads. Any facts on that?

Looks like it's just the angle.

I know this much Selena's ass was better than J Lo's. Selena was ahead of her time body wise. You didn't see women that fit with a bubble. That's how women try to look now.

Non black people with often considered "black" characteristics always get overrated by the main stream.

I don't think she was overrated when compared to her peers. It's always "girls around my way have more ass than J Lo" when that's not the point. J Lo having more ass than the famous actresses and singers at that time is the point.

 

[Controversy]

Late 90s J Lo was a cultural phenomenon

 

[DaMos Supreme]

this was in 1988


Sidebar - I wonder if that situation led to Keith getting chased naked through Harlem, allegedly. Or was it involving another woman altogether

 

[saturn7]

The reason = that first pic you posted.

She had a great shape in her Fly Girls days on In Living Color. Women were slimmer back then for sure.
Buffy and Esther started the mega donk era lol.

 

[feelosofer]

You gotta remember the standards were different in the 90s. It wasn't chic to be curvaceous in the 80s and 90s. Once Jennifer Lopez became a mainstream she stood out amongst all these stick figure models and actress. Of course if you lived in the hood, JLo was one of many but to suburban white people she was an outlier.

 

[ExodusNirvana]

nikkas ain't seen "Selena"????

Y'all showing your age...even as a youngin I peeped that butt on "In Living Color"

 

[Leasy]

this was in 1988


Sidebar - I wonder if that situation led to Keith getting chased naked through Harlem, allegedly. Or was it involving another woman altogether

Bad as shyt. nikkas definitely were going at it over shorty.

 

[Cereal_Bowl_Assassin]

"We"

Like others have said already, it was the 90's...curves werent really a thing for mainstream America, the scene in Selena really helped her out..now a days you can see a phat butt anywhere, it wasnt loke that back in the day unless you just saw it in your neighborhood

 

[Solo ✧✦✧]

That's a nice ass and shape to me.

I'd choose this over the cartoon shape that's common today. That skinny chicken legs and big oversize ass look is ugly as fukk to me.

 

[///Vega+++]

the 90s was mostly smoke and mirrors the last decade of naive optimism so that's that

 

[Wild self]

Non black people with often considered "black" characteristics always get overrated by the main stream.

Thats the point. They seens a white looking Latina with ass, and c00ns lost they minds.

 

[$cam-U-Well_Jack$on]

Always been overrated.

 

[Wear My Dawg's Hat]

You gotta remember the standards were different in the 90s. It wasn't chic to be curvaceous in the 80s and 90s. Once Jennifer Lopez became a mainstream she stood out amongst all these stick figure models and actress. Of course if you lived in the hood, JLo was one of many but to suburban white people she was an outlier.

I would say that it wasn't until En Vogue came on the scene that the shape of the booty became appreciated
in mainstream black entertainment. That was 1990.

 

[O.T.I.S.]

Yet Janet was poppin way earlier and had the succulent ass that was nicer than Jennifer’s and never got the credit. Even if you were to say you never got a clear view it was obvious Janet had a fukking body. If you saw Poetic Justice it was obvious Janet was going to war with her jeans....Yet nikkax act like J Lo was Neo from The Matrix

Go Figure

Janet wasn’t popping in Hollywood like that.

She was more popular for her music, not poetic justice

That was exactly what I was talking about. But dude said it was butt pads. Any facts on that?

no facts at all, they probably started inventing buttpads because of the movie.