While as an artist she’s in love with most of, if not all of, her own music, Ashanti admits to one specific record’s success. I don’t want to stray too far because I’m really proud of what we created, but I’m excited about it.” She continued to express how she believes that listeners will “have some great memories” to go along with the newly cut album. It’s an amazing feeling to sonically make it feel that same rawness, but with the 2022 spin on it – just sonically making it crispy. “I mean, it makes the most sense after being in the game for 20 years and having the rights to be able to go back and rerecord my first album. “The business side of me,” the “Foolish” singer laughed. When asked by Girls United editor D’Shonda Brown why she made the decision to re-record her RIAA-certified triple-platinum debut album, she responded by letting her entrepreneurial mindset take the reigns. Ashanti, which featured notable names in hip-hop and rap including The Notorious B.I.G., Ja Rule, and Irv Gotti, debuted at number one on the US Billboard 200 and Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums charts while also earning three Grammy nominations. Ashanti‘s self-titled debut album Ashanti was released collaboratively on Apvia Murder Inc.

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