If you’re old enough to remember R&B in the early 00s, why does Ashanti get disregarded?

[TheDarkCloud]

I notice this a lot. She’s pretty much irrelevant now and I suppose her association with Murder Inc isn’t helping her legacy at this point. But there was a time when this chick did run the game. Albeit, her reign was short BUT it did happen.

That first album is a contemporary r&b classic. nikkas was legit saying at her peak, she was just a Ja Rule back up singer.

I remember when her and Tweet released their albums on the same day and Ashanti smoked her. And I remember Ashanti getting that Soul Train Lady Of Soul Entertainer of the year award. And got like 10 Billboard Awards in one night . And I remember how big of a deal Foolish was.

How sway??

 

[JahBuhLun]

She stopped fukking Irv Gotti.......

 

[TheDarkCloud]

She stopped fukking Irv Gotti.......

 

[Easy-E]

Ashanti? Classic?

 

[TheDarkCloud]

Ashanti? Classic?

Prime example of what I’m talking about

 

[get these nets]

backlash

she was the first r&b singer that got dragged in modern era for no talent or artistic credibility....she got dragged like paula abdul got dragged in the 1990s.

She had a song called "Baby"...where the ENTIRE song.........was her singing "oh baby"

She was selling records back then due to the def jam/murder inc machine but people said she was making a mockery of R&B

 

[Manolo]

She was like the R&B Nelly. She came out the gate with 4-5 fire singles that everybody loved. Foolish, Baby, Happy, Rain on Me. Murder Inc. folded in 2003 at her peak and that lane went to Beyonce.

 

[Easy-E]

Ppl

Prime example of what I’m talking about

Gimme some examples of classic Ashanti

 

[patscorpio]

she couldn't sing and her songs are garbage

 

[semtex]

bytch fine af

 

[7th Letter Specialist]

Cuz her sideburns

 

[FeloniousMonk]

Because she was never regarded..

 

[☑︎#VoteDemocrat]

she has classics, but she just got lazy and stopped putting out music.

She'd easily be a competitor if she wasn't thirst trapping on IG

 

[richaveli83]

Being associated with Murder Inc.
The rise of Beyonce
She really wasn't that talented

 

[JahBuhLun]

She's an "era" singer, Certain singers just fit into a certain time span and that's it. Very few entertainers span across multiple eras.