Ashanti Biography

Biography

Fat Joe released "What's Luv?" it was time for Ashanti to grab her big break. Featured on the two biggest pop and urban hits of the year had built Ashanti confidence to release her first album "Ashanti" which debut single "Foolish" appeared on Ja Rule's own Murder Inc. record label. The single apparently became 2002's biggest hit, spending eleven weeks at number one on the pop charts Hot 100, thanks in part to a remix called "Unfoolish," which featured a rap by Biggie, and got heavy urban radio airplay. Once she dominated the single charts, Ashanti released her follow-up singles "Happy" and "Baby" that were milder hits later that same year. During the summer of 2002, she appeared on Ja Rule's song called "Down 4 U," along with labelmates Vita and Charli Baltimore. The next year, in early 2003, she once again teamed up with Ja Rule and scored a massive pop hit with "Mesmerize", which music video parodied the plot of hit movie "Grease." Despite the song's success in becoming a hit, Ja Rule and Ashanti got an extremely keen critics from rapper 50 Cent who blamed Ja Rule as being soft and "not a true gangsta", citing the ...

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"Mesmerize" video and its pop-culture appeal as an example. Ashanti, in addition, also becoming the target of 50 Cent critics of the entire Murder Inc. family.

Notwithstanding with the critics, Ashanti would later make a special guest appearance in a season 7 episode of "Buffy the Vampire Slayer," "First Date." In the summer 2003, she released her second album dubbed "Chapter II." This album's first single "Rock Wit U (Awww Baby)" became one of the summer's biggest hits and its steamy video, which showed the singer in a bikini frolicking on a beach, was nominated for a 2003 MTV Video Music Award for Best R&B Video. In succession, the set's second single and video, "Rain On Me", was released in the fall of 2003. Unfortunately, even with the help of a remix version of both the single and video, it was not able to reach "Rock Wit U"'s level of success on either pop or urban radio. In 2004, Ashanti released the album's third single "Breakup 2 Makeup" which video was hardly played on any American music video stations, including the cable channels, VH1 Soul and MTV Jams. The almost total lack of American radio airplay, had caused some people ...