If You Had My Love - Recording and Production

Recording and Production

"If You Had My Love" was produced by Rodney Jerkins of Darkchild Entertainment, Inc., who has worked with range of popular artists such as Michael Jackson and Whitney Houston. Lopez recorded her vocals for the song at Sony Music Studios in New York City; the song was later mixed by Tony Maserati at The Hit Factory in New York City and Larrabee Sound Studios in California. Larry Gold and Jennifer Karr served as backing vocalists to Lopez. According to recording artist Chanté Moore, her song "If I Gave Love" which was intended to be released as the second single from her album, This Moment Is Mine, released in March 1999, was re-written by Jerkins with the same arrangement for Lopez after Sean Combs, a producer for On the 6, said he wanted the song. As a result of this, Moore's plans to release "If I Gave Love" were shelved as the songs were almost identical.

In 2008, Moore stated that "We should have been aggressive instead of backing off our single, we backed off of it because J.Lo had such a machine at the time. We should have just stepped out." She explained the issue further in her interview with NPR, stating: "I heard that it was because Puff Daddy walked in and heard my song and said, 'I want that song.' was like, 'Yeah, it's already taken. We wrote that for Chante.' And was like, 'Yeah, mmm hmm, I want that song.' So Rodney wrote really the same song Hers, I can't even remember. It's so close I can't even sing it right now. Same song." Moore continued to say "I wanted to sock him in the head," and her song "It Ain't Suppose To Be This Way" is believed to reference the event of Comb's "stealing" her song.