"Jenny from the Block" is a pop/R&B/hip hop song written by American singer-songwriter Anre "mrDEYO" Deyo, Jennifer Lopez, Jean Claude "Poke" Olivier, Samuel Barnes, Lawrence Parker, Simon Sterlin, and Jose Fernando Arbex Miro for Lopez's third studio album, This Is Me... Then (2002). It was produced by Troy Oliver Cory Rooney, and was remixed by Poke & Tone and features rappers Styles P and Jadakiss. Released as the album's lead single in the autumn of 2002, the song reached number one in Argentina and Canada, and entered the top ten on the majority of all other charts it appeared on. The song also refers to Lopez's first two albums "On the 6" and "J.Lo"