Chante Moore: I Should Have Battled Jennifer Lopez!

1. Chante should put that behind her because what comes around goes around. It's a new era and JLO's music career is Pfft!! Her computer-enhanced voice, lip-syncing and using backing tracks at every performance has played out. Her last two albums flopped and a non-talented older singer like JLO can't compete with the younger generation of singers we have now. Chante can sing so she can make a comeback, so its no need for her to even care about what happened in the past with someone who once suceeded by faking it in the music industry.

DanteM at 11:43AM on Aug 27th 2008

2. Hearing Moore talk about it almost nine years later brings me full circle to the beginning of my career!


Well, she needs to get over it! 9 more years!

Tiffany at 2:13PM on Aug 27th 2008

3. i can agree with her frustration. I heard her song first and then to my amazement when j-lo's song broke i was like"OMG" that's Chante's song. I couldn't believe a producer could be so under-handed. Chante's album has many more hits on it than what were played but i truly believe "If I gave" would have launched her to higher heights with the sale of that project. I lost total respect for Rodney. I'm not interested at all in anything he puts his hands on. He owes her an apology and more. Puffy Combs has also lost my respect even more after learning that he basically demanded the song be J-Lo's. Chante is great and she's got the goods because she's a real woman with a heart and soul and she's got GOD on her side. She'll be just fine. that's my girl!

neddieboo at 2:19PM on Aug 27th 2008

4. Chante...MOVE ON! lol Just cuz you had the same song that landed Jennifer Lopez in the pop/r&b music scene don't mean you would have had the same success.

MOVE ON...focus on getting your career back.

BeyondBeautiful at 5:56PM on Aug 27th 2008

5. well okay, i can agree with dantem. i also want to say it's okay for chante to express her regret. she's not saying it's holding her back but it's definitely not doing that. i don't even know if before this interview the story of this happening was ever told. i'm glad she spoke on it.

neddieboo at 2:34AM on Aug 28th 2008

6. Chante Moore is a REAL singer! Would like to say the same for J Lo.Chante is a beautiful woman, inside and out. She should move on though. However I can understand how she is hurting. Betrayal is betrayal. Brotha Jerkins caved in to pressure. But as they say, what goes around...

JAZZMAN11 at 10:57AM on Aug 28th 2008

7. Well-BeyondBeautiful. I question the context in which this regret is currently documented. Mr. Murray made it clear that the initial story had been handed off. The "... full circle to the beginning of my career..." suggests that an opportunity to reminisce and make good on presenting this story may have occurred.

Chante has clearly moved on; she's beautiful inside and out, voice-supherb, hubby-hunk, kids-adorable.

Perhaps you've never created something worthwhile and had it snatched from under your nose and been a bit too passive at the time to make it known. It will make you go "hmmm".

Chante has every right to view that event as a regret. The fact that the integrity of the other parties named in this story were never questioned are challenged in your statement-moves me.

K at 3:58PM on Aug 28th 2008

8. Girl let it go.

alicia at 4:57PM on Aug 28th 2008

9. JLO is history. She has to hang w/the latinos now. Her Ghetto Pass was revoked when she and Diddy split.

Tina E at 10:14PM on Aug 28th 2008

10. It doesn't surprise me that this happened. Chante is an African American woman who appeals to the R&B crowd. Jennifer Lopez is someone who appeals to the pop crowd. The pop crowd doesn't require you to have a great voice. It only requires you to keep doing crazy things to stay in the spotlight and then your records will sell. We who love R&B, however, require that you can sing. And Chante can sing!!! Sean Combs has done WHATEVER and the expense of WHOMEVER to stay in the public's eye. And Rodney Jerkins, well he seems like he will go wherever the money is. The only who seems to have any integrity here is Chante'. Sort of reminds me of DREAMGIRLS. Effie sang the song, Curtis stole it, and Deena sang another version and made it big. BUT in the end, Effie was able to come back and have respect because she was the only honest one in the bunch. Keep yur head up, Chante. I know that your new album will be a hit to all us true R&B fans.

dswife at 9:20AM on Aug 29th 2008

11. hahahahahahaha Tina you nailed it girl!

Mariah at 9:21AM on Aug 29th 2008

12. Chante knew that Diddy's self-hating azz was going to push J-Lo over her. He ain't into sisters not even that fool Kim Pee Pee who puts up with his ish. What goes around though cuz once J-Lo got famous and out da hood, she went back to her Latin and white peeps. She even tried to go after All-American white boy Ben. That's how these other minority groups do us. They use us and when they get ahead go over to the white folks. J-Lo even got out of testifying for that ish back in 99 with Diddy. She ain't checking for his black azz no mo. Just keepin it real. I never saw the hype in her anyway. She is an average looking Latina who doesn't even have the butt of your average Brazilian sista on the beaches of Rio.

Sparkle at 12:19PM on Aug 29th 2008

13. First I want to say, I cannot stand Puffy- whatever his name is, he is one of the biggest A-Holes out there. Next Chante dont even worry about it, you are a much much much better singer than Lopaz. My question is...if Puffy is all that and Lopez is all that then why they could not come up with an song, instead of taking someone elses. It is all a bunch of Politically BS. Backstabbing... that how Puffy got to where he is at now.

angie at 1:04PM on Aug 29th 2008

14. the tweety bird sings in the lullaby of the butthole fever to doodoo

penisheadtwinkletoes at 3:05PM on Aug 29th 2008

15. I love Chante' as an artist. J.LO is a climber. She used every bit of her booty to get what she wanted to boost hers and Mark Anthony's career because they're both whack!

Terrah at 3:32PM on Aug 29th 2008