Jennifer Lopez - All I Have ft. LL Cool J

What this video is

Released December 14, 2002 as the second single from Jennifer Lopez's third studio album 'This Is Me... Then', 'All I Have' arrived at the apex of the pop-R&B-rap crossover era. The song reached number one on the US Billboard Hot 100 for four weeks (week of January 30, 2003), giving Lopez her fourth number-one and LL Cool J his first, before being displaced by 50 Cent's 'In da Club'. Billboard later ranked it the…

Why it matters

A landmark example of early-2000s pop-R&B/hip-hop collaboration, 'All I Have' bridges the melodic R&B ballad tradition with conversational rap verses, typifying the genre-fluid commercial formula that dominated the Hot 100 in 2002–2003. The video reinforces the era's narrative-driven,…

The director

David Charles Meyers (born October 19, 1972, Berkeley, California) studied Film Production and Philosophy at Loyola Marymount University. He has directed more than 200 music videos, earning 12 MTV Video Music Awards including Video of the Year in 2003, 2011,…