Jennifer Lopez once clarified where she really stood with her frequent collaborator Pitbull.

Jennifer Lopez has had a lot of famous exes over the years. But there’s one music star she quipped would be too busy to ask her out, even though she’s collaborated with him a few times before.

Jennifer Lopez was asked about her true relationship status with Pitbull

Pitbull and Jennifer Lopez | Christopher Polk / Getty Images

Lopez already knew what it was like to date a singer. She was married to musician Marc Anthony for ten years before their divorce. But there was another artist that Lopez had grown extremely attached to. She and hip hop star Pitbull were frequent collaborators not too long ago, having done records like “On the Floor” and “Dance Again.” Their relationship has benefited each other both personally and professionally. Lopez credited Pitbull for helping her usher in a new phase in her career.

“One of my biggest songs ever we did, which was ‘On the Floor,’ which kind of brought me back into the public eye after I had my kids and got married, and that was just like a new moment,” Lopez said in an interview with Sirius XM. “So, he will always represent kind of the new generation of my music. He was amazing f***ing on fire at the time. And he got on my record, and I really appreciated that, because I hadn’t made records in a few years, and that was a big deal to me.”

But during an interview on The Wendy Williams Show (via E! News), Lopez was asked if she and Pitbull might’ve been more than just friends. They were, in a sense, since Lopez saw Pitbull as family. But she ruled out being in an intimate relationship with the rapper.

“He is like a brother to me,” Lopez said. “He is Mr. Worldwide, he got no time for me. He’s [got] a lot going on.”

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