Rooney explained : " We had changed the sound of Jennifer Lopez with " I 'm Real " and we did n't have anything else on the '' J.Lo '' album we could release as a single . We had to do another remix to keep the momentum going . " Then-upcoming artist Ashanti dropped by Irv Gotti 's studio in New York . She recalled : " Everyone was there and Ja Rule was on the floor playing video games , and they had the beat playing in the background . Chris Gotti , Irv Gotti 's brother , said ' Ja 's supposed to be writing this record for J-Lo , but it does n't look like he 's going to be doing anything tonight . Why do n't you go in there and see what 's happening ? ' So that 's exactly what I did . " Ashanti wrote two verses and recorded a demo for the new version of " Ai n't It Funny " for Lopez . Gotti and 7 flew out to Los Angeles on September 10 , 2001 to record the song with Lopez . The song was due to be recorded the following day , but was postponed due to the September 11 attacks . When work resumed on the song , Gotti called Ashanti from Los Angeles asking her to write another verse for the song . She recalled : " I had to write it over the phone and two-way Irv the lyrics . " " Ai n't it Funny ( Murder Remix ) " is a hip-hop song with a duration of three minutes and forty-nine seconds ( 3:49 ) . It is thematically dissimilar to the original track . While he was working towards the remix , Ja Rule boasted " I 'm about to f --- ya 'll up , " stating that the song 's sampling of Craig Mack 's " Flava In Ya Ear " would be " remixed " and " vamped up crazy " . He said " It 's totally not J. Lo . " Over the reworking of the " Flava In Ya Ear " beat , Lopez sings about " a boyfriend who keeps messing up , " while Rule and Cadillac Tah " drop rhymes " on the track . Rule raps that he 's " Off the wall like MJ in his early days , " which is a reference to Michael Jackson 's album '' Off the Wall '' ( 1979 ) . The rapper also says " Oh I , never been a sucker for chocha , " choca meaning pussy , the slang term for vagina . He continues on to say that people " want " him after they see him " workin ' with money , " meaning working with Lopez
September 11 attacks
September 11 attacks
Ain't It Funny (Murder Remix)