She arrived in 2001 with featured appearances on Big Pun's 'How We Roll,' Ja Rule's 'The Inc.' and 'Always on Time,' and Fat Joe's 'What's Luv?,' and contributed 'When a Man Does Wrong' to the soundtrack of The Fast and the Furious. Ashanti opted to pursue music, and after some potential label deals fell through, she ingratiated herself with Irv Gotti at Murder Inc. A track star, she set the record for the triple jump at Glen Cove High School, and was offered an athletic scholarship to attend Hampton University. She established her enduring acting career with roles in commercials and uncredited appearances in Malcolm X and Who's the Man?, and danced in music videos. These successes were followed by an assortment of singles and high-profile contributions to titles ranging from The Hamilton Mixtape (2016) to DaBaby's 'Nasty' (2020).īorn and raised on Long Island, Ashanti Douglas started performing, singing, and writing songs in her youth.

(aka The Inc.), only to score her fifth Top Ten studio album with the independently released Braveheart (2014). After Chapter II (2003), Concrete Rose (2004), and The Declaration (2008) sustained her commercial prominence, Ashanti parted ways with Murder Inc. Upon arrival the next month, her self-titled album topped the Billboard 200 on its way to triple-platinum, Grammy-winning status. labelmate Ja Rule's 'Always on Time' and Fat Joe's 'What's Luv?,' hits that took the fourth and fifth positions, while 'Foolish,' her debut solo single, moved up to number nine.

The week of March 30 that year, the singer and songwriter followed the Beatles as only the second artist to simultaneously occupy spots in the Top Ten of the Billboard Hot 100 with her first three charting singles. Celebrated most for her yearning love songs and hooks, but just as capable of using her smooth, sweet, meringue-like voice to deliver anguished cinematic ballads, Ashanti became an almost inescapable pop-R&B force in 2002.

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