Irv had Ashanti write and background vocal Aint It Funny (Remix) for JLO w/ no credit. Also, had her background vocal I’m Real Remix as well. And wanted to give Rescue, What’s Luv, and Always On Time to JLO as well.
End of 02, Fabolous shared with BET that Ashanti was his favorite new artist of 2002 and really wants to work with Ashanti. The two then collab’d on “Into You” in early 03’. Irv says NO to doing a music video because its not a Murder Inc Produced Track.
Ashanti releases Chapter II, which Irv puts a bunch of unnecessary skits of his own on such as: Shannys World Intro/Outro, What They Gon Say Now, Sugar Shack, Black Child Skit - which disrupts the whole vibe of the album. Lile wtf is this…
This thread really blew up.
@ashanti
has a new single that will be released very soon. Please stream it, when it’s out — It’s called Falling For You feat.
@_YungBleu
! 🔥🔥🔥Hear a preview here:
Irv Gotti needs to stop talking about Ashanti, he’s been doing it for over a decade. His stories are just as inconsistent as his diet plan 🗣 and here’s proof.
2008 - Ashanti releases ‘The Declaration’ the first album where she was able to work with producers outside of Murder Inc. she worked with LT Hutton, Jermaine Dupri, Babyface, Darkchild, and more.
Word was that Ashanti, Bey, and A.Keys were all supposed to tour together but Irv was not with it because they were competition and not Murder Inc. Missy & Tamia then join the tour instead..
Gotti calls Ashanti unloyal for not showing up to court for the trial even though there’s proof she did. Mind you, she was filming John Tucker Must Die, and couldnt leave Canada, but still did.
2002 - Instead of getting a 4th Music Video (Which could have either been Movies, Leaving, or Rescue). Irv gives us a Baby (Remix) Video to push his Irv Gotti Presents The Remix Album and showcase his artist who never got a release. The song had no new verse/lyrics from Shan
A G-Unit Vs Murder Inc. beef is now in place. Ashanti’s guilty by Association, with RWU & ROM being Top 10 singles. Gotti pushes back a third single release and has Ashanti release a remix to ROM to promote Ja Rule & Charli to try to get them back to the spotlight.
The late release of Dont Let Them, was Allegedly due to the Murder Inc parting ways with Def Jam. Fans were upset as they wanted a video for Dont Leave Me Alone or Focus. (Kind of strange because RULE album got 3 videos and did less units, ijs)
2007 - Ashanti collabs with Jagged Edge on “Put A Little Umph In It”. When it comes time to doing the video, Jagged Edge claims they couldnt get Ashanti to do the video due to a conflict with Irv Gotti.
2006 Murder Inc. is in the process of migrating from Def Jam to Universal. Ashanti’s only release that year was a film release of “John Tucker Must Die”.
Still On It was the lead single, Gotti swears she didnt wanna throw up the M’s anymore, but she still managed to do so for the lead single that went into 2006.
Ashanti releases one last album with Def Jam called “Collectibles” which she’s not fond of at all. The song is filled with unreleased songs that didnt make the last 3 albums and a bunch of unnecessary remixes that promote INC. artist.
@Ashanti
’s Top Streams via
#Spotify
1. Foolish
2. Rock Wit U
3. Unfoolish
4. Happy
5. Say Less
6. What’s Luv
7. Into You
8. Always On Time
9. Mesmerize
10. Start This Shit Off Right
11. Baby
12. Only U
13. The Way That I Love You
14. Helpless
15. Southside
Lets talk about “Struggle” 🖤 One of the fan favorites. “And even if I said I was leavin' babe, I couldn't picture no more you and me, See I ain't perfect babe and you ain't perfect baby, So listen to the realest thing I could say…”
@vvsblazedup
@_loveambitious
This is why 90s/00s music will always hold more weight and there’s more classics in those decades era. The goal was to make a hit that people can vibe out to for months and NOT to get a
#1
song for the next couple of weeks.
One year ago, Irv Gotti went on a “promo” run trying to trash Ashanti’s name. She snaps at him on Diddy’s Gotta Move On Remix. A year later, his documentary flops, the song is nominated for two
@mtv
#VMAs
, and here she is a year later. 🤣
Ashanti & Nelly have been like the most positive thing on the internet this Winter Season. The rest is just beef, scandal, and negativitiy amongst celebrities.
Every
#BlackHistoryMonth
we have to
#Shoutout
@Ashanti
for being the first female artist to have four songs in the Billboard Top 10 on the Billboard Hot 100 at the same time and also for being in Guiness Book of World Records for Fastest Selling Debut Artist.
Again,
#Ashanti
is filming, when Irv was constantly talking bad about her she was filming a Christmas movie as well. She’s in the process of recording new music and rerecording some of her past records. While actively touring throughout the world. So she’s ALWAYS on WORKCATION.
“Happy” being the only Ashanti song to make Rolling Stone’s Top 100 is crazy. No Foolish, RWU, ROM, or Baby? Esp to start the article with “You cant talk about 2000s R&B without talking about Ashanti.”
I forgot to post this clip of when Ashanti shared that Keyshia Cole got shut down by Irv to do an album with her. She also shared there were other producers who had a misconception of her as well.
#SURVIVORSSPEAK
— A clip of
@ashanti
discussing the mental struggle of watching her sister go through pain. Shia also shares her pain, emotions, stories and wisdom.
Lets talk about
@Ashanti
’s “Living My Life” (Off Chapter II), particularly the bridge when she cross references “Always On Time”, “Foolish”, “Happy”, and “Baby”
#pengame
🔥— This is a 🔥 motivational track!
#HappyFriday
💪🏽
#TBT
—
@Ashanti
Feat. French Montana & Meek Mill (in their rookie year) - No One Greater. An unreleased song from “Braveheart” — This one was pure 🔥— “Tellin me you selfish but you cant help it, if you love me like you said, then you wouldnt need no one elses”
Lets talk about how
@Ashanti
did what needed to be done on Jagged Edge’s “Put A Little Umph In It” — Her verse became a viral trend on TikTok last year! Wish she would’ve been apart of the video 🥺 — Do yall love this song?
@Juicelessjerome
The agenda was to push Caddilac Tah. Only to remix the song, remove him and make it Ja Rule’s song featuring Nas, Ashanti, and an outro from 2pac.