 Artist: Ashanti: mp3 download Genre(s): R&B: Soul Rap: Hip-Hop Discography:  Can't Stop Year: 2005 Tracks: 11  Concrete Rose Year: 2004 Tracks: 16  Chapter II Year: 2003 Tracks: 20  Ashanti's Christmas Year: 2003 Tracks: 10 With hitmaker Irv Gotti at the helm, Ashanti blamed into the urban music fit in 2002, topping the charts with multiple singles at formerly. She cursorily became a sentiency, gracing the covers of magazines and despotic urban radio receiver. Ashanti built her repute with duets, where she would accompaniment an already popular doorknocker -- Ja Rule ("Always on Time"), Fat Joe ("What's Luv?"), the Notorious B.I.G. ("Unfoolish") -- contrasting the sturdy guy male perspective with her possess. It didn't take the whitney Moore Young Jr. singer long to run into a nominate for herself though: her debut album topped the Billboard album graph scarcely as her debut solo single, "Foolish," was topping the Hot one C graph. Her presence was unavoidable. Ashanti's overnight jump to superstardom followed that of Ja Rule, a similar urban music wizard helmed by Gotti. The New York producer took notice of Ashanti initially because of her beauty, dancing, and playacting. She trained as a dancer at the Bernice Johnson Cultural Arts Center, learning a number of dance styles. She danced most notably in Disney's Polly, which asterisked Phylicia Rashad, and as well appeared in a number of big-name music videos, in addition to other dance work. As an actress, she made a mention for herself with roles in Spike Lee's Malcolm X and Who's da Man earlier that. The multi-talented vocalizer was causing quite a stir, and Gotti did what he could to bring her into his Murder Inc. fold. After showcasing her lightheaded voice on Big Pun's "How We Roll" and the Truehearted and Furious soundtrack -- both in 2001 -- Gotti set Ashanti to work out on her debut album, which he produced. Success came promptly. A duo with Ja Rule, "Always on Time," hit number one on Billboard's Hot one C graph in early 2002 exactly as a duet with Fat Joe, "What's Luv?," was creep toward the same number one position. These iI airplay-heavy singles fix the stage perfectly for Ashanti's self-titled debut exit. The album's lead single, "Goosey," raced up the Hot one C graph, incoming the Top Ten in March aboard "Always on Time" and "What's Luv?," giving her trey Top Ten songs in the like week, including the number one and two positions -- a quite dramatic exploit. And then Ashanti's album debuted at number one on the album chart, selling an astounding D,000-plus copies in its first week. With all this chart-topping, Ashanti congeal some gross sales records and her success continued. Gotti readied a remix of "Foolish," titled "Unfoolish," that featured the Notorious B.I.G. and once more overtook urban radio, where no artist was more ubiquitous throughout 2002 than Ashanti. She returned the following year with Chapter II, which alike topped the Billboard album graph on the heels of its hot wind single, "Rock and roll Wit U (Awww Baby)." The album's success was jolly eclipsed, however, by all the negative drama circumferent the Murder Inc. camp at the time (i.e., the FBI investigating and the G-Unit feuding). A Christmas album followed former that class, and Concrete Rose appeared in December 2004. Though she remained with The Inc. for 2007's The Declaration, she sought-after out a number of producers (including Robin Thicke, Pharrell Williams, and Dr. Dre) outside the label's in-house team. |
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