“Don’t be fooled by the plaques that we got,” Ocasio-Cortez wrote above the photo of the plaque. “I’m still / I’m still Alex from the Bronx.”

Ocasio-Cortez, a 29-year-old rising star in the Democratic Party and Boston University alum, posted a photo of the new plaque outside her congressional office that bears the rookie lawmaker’s name and home state of New York, where she pulled off a stunning primary upset en route to a general election victory in November.

Congresswoman-elect Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on Thursday reached back into the early 2000s musical archives, tweeting a reference to a 16-year-old hit from pop icon Jennifer Lopez.


Listeners of a certain age will note the message bears a striking resemblance to the refrain of J.Lo’s 2002 smash “Jenny from the Block,” in which the singer proclaims, “Don’t be fooled by the rocks that I got/I’m still, I’m still Jenny from the Block.”

🎶 Don’t be fooled by the plaques that we got, I’m still / I’m still Alex from the Bronx 🎶 pic.twitter.com/eO68AGxn2z — Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) December 27, 2018

By early Thursday afternoon, some 43,000 people had liked Ocasio-Cortez’s homage to Lopez, a Bronx native whose studio release “Second Act” is currently playing in theaters nationwide.

Lopez hadn’t responded publicly to Ocasio-Cortez’s tweet as of 1 p.m. Thursday, following a string of retweets the singer put out the day before from fans posting rave reviews of her new movie.

Earlier this month, Ocasio-Cortez returned to Massachusetts for an orientation program for new members of Congress at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government and joined a pre-event demonstration for universal health care and climate change legislation.

“We need to shake this nation awake,” Ocasio-Cortez said during the protest.

Days later, she was criticized on social media by Curt Schilling, the former Red Sox hurler and outspoken conservative.

Nestor Ramos of the Globe Staff contributed to this report. Travis Andersen can be reached at travis.andersen@globe.com. Follow him on Twitter @TAGlobe.