Ashanti is still around, in that she hits red carpets and performs her old hits in small venues, but she is nowhere near where many predicted she would be at this point in her career. We wish Ashanti — who re-recorded her debut album in 2021 to “collect my coins” (via The Breakfast Club) — would create some new music that hits as hard as her early stuff. The singer did release two songs in 2022, and she has guested on others’ tracks over the years (most notably Lil Wayne’s “Start This Sh*t Off Right” and DaBaby’s “Nasty”), but we are still waiting on that long-promised comeback album. Her last album, “Braveheart,” came out in 2014 and barely made a blip.
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Ashanti first rose to fame in the early aughts, after Irv Gotti signed her to Murder Inc., and she guested on Fat Joe’s “What’s Luv?” and Ja Rule’s “Always on Time.” Her first solo single, “Foolish,” spent 10 weeks at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100, and she followed it up with two more hit songs, “Happy” and “Baby,” all from her self-titled debut album. Ashanti scored five Grammy nominations, one win that first year on the scene, and another three the following year for her second album “Chapter II.” Her musical success has waned as the years have progressed, and it is about time for that to change.
