The Beatnuts - “Watch Out Now” (1999)
Now, mention Jennifer Lopez and we can’t be friends anymore. Well ok, I don’t mean it literally, but let’s say our friendship is on shaky grounds. The problem you see is not that the J-Lo camp sampled the same record as the Nuts did (btw, it’s Enoch Light’s “Hi Jack”) it’s that she lifted the entire track off of them, right down to the general vibe. Hadn’t “Watch Out Now” become a true latino party classic, with bikini babes, tricked out impalas and all the cliches piled on, well, it just wouldn’t have been the right track to base the whole jenny-from-the-block persona on. Way to buy street cred, jenni!
