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it was the second video I ever did, “If You Had My Love” was first. It was also the first time I went into the editing room and sat side by side with the editor, Dustin. That’s when I realized the magic of editing. Since then, I’ve been involved in the editing of all my videos. WFT is one of my all-time favorites because it stands the test of time, it was 1999, just about to be 2000 or Y2K–everyone thought the world was going to crash, so the director Francis Lawrence and I just threw the ultimate rave in a rainforest!!

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I grew up on freestyle music [a Latin music-indebted dance subgenre especially popular in the Bronx]. My whole thing was when Puffy, who also contributed to the album with “Feelin' So Good,” and was kind of a mentor to me during that time as well, he said, “You have that Latin soul, and you can never go away from that. Just be who you are.” He always reminded me of that: “There’s nobody like you, you gotta be that girl from the Bronx. That’s who you are, don’t let them change you into something else.” That went into not just the music, like a song like “Waiting for Tonight,” but went into the styling of who I was. I was like, “No, I want to wear big hoops, I want to put my baby hairs down, I don’t care if it’s not fashionable in the big magazines.” There were certain things I stuck to.

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