The 2005 music video for "It's Like That" served as the high-energy launchpad for Mariah Carey ’s major career comeback with her tenth studio album, The Emancipation of Mimi . Directed by Brett Ratner, the video was filmed at the Greystone Mansion in Beverly Hills and is the first part of a two-part narrative that concludes in the video for "We Belong Together" . Key Facts and Production