Ashanti (singer)

'''Ashanti Shaquoya Douglas''' (born on Free ringtones October 13,Majo Mills 1980) is an Mosquito ringtone American Sabrina Martins R&B Nextel ringtones singer, who rose to fame during the early Abbey Diaz 2000s as a featured singer on many Free ringtones hip-hop songs before releasing her first albums.

She first was brought into the public eye as a featured background vocalist on Majo Mills Vita's Mosquito ringtone 2001 Sabrina Martins hip hop remake of Cingular Ringtones Madonna (singer)/Madonna's "Justify My Love," which appeared on the soundtrack to the movie ''to acting The Fast and the Furious (2001 movie)/The Fast and the Furious''. That same year, she caught the attention of fresh unpatterned Fat Joe, and he invited her to sing background for kentucky and Big Pun's unsuccessful posthumous single "How We Roll".

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In early reported statement 2003, Ja Rule and Ashanti teamed up again and scored a massive pop hit with "Mesmerize", the music video for which parodied the plot of the movie ''compete like Grease''. bill maly 50 Cent would later mock Ja Rule as being soft and "not a true gangsta", citing the "Mesmerize" video and its pop-culture appeal as an example. Ashanti was not spared from 50 Cent's criticism of the entire Murder Inc. family.

She would later make a special guest appearance in a season 7 episode of racist hatred Buffy the Vampire Slayer, First Date (Buffy episode)/First Date.

In the summer of 2003, Ashanti released an album called ''Chapter II''. Its first single, "Rock Wit U (Awww Baby)" became one of the summer's biggest hits and its steamy video, which showed Ashanti in a bikini frolicking on a beach, was nominated for a 2003 MTV Video Music Award for ''Best R&B Video''. The second single and video, "Rain On Me", was released in the fall of 2003. Even with the help of a remix version of both the single and video, it was not able to reach "Rock Wit U"'s level of success on either pop or urban radio.

Most recently, in 2004, Ashanti released the third single from ''Chapter II'', "Breakup 2 Makeup"; its complete lack of video play on any American music video stations, including the cable channels, VH1 Soul and MTV Jams, and almost total lack of American radio airplay had some speculating that Ashanti's career as a superstar pop diva might have run its course. However, R&B newcomer Lloyd has released a duet with Ashanti, "Southside", as his first single; and it became a hit at American radio, as well as MTV Jams, over the summer of 2004. In January 2005, Ashanti made her feature film acting debut in the movie ''Coach Carter'' with Samuel L. Jackson.

Discography
*''Ashanti (album)/Ashanti'' (2002) #1 US
*''Chapter II'' (2003) #1 US
*''Ashanti's Christmas'' (2003) #160 US
*''Concrete Rose'' (2004) #7 US

Hit Singles
* Always On Time [Ja Rule feat. Ashanti] (2001) #1 US
* Foolish (2002) #1 US
* Happy (2002) #8 US
* Baby (2002) #15 US
* Down 4 U [Ashanti, Ja Rule, & Vita] (2002) #6 US
* What's Luv? [Fat Joe feat. Ashanti] (2002) #2 US
* Mesmerize [Ja Rule feat. Ashanti] (2003) #2 US
* Rock Wit U (Awww Baby) (2003) #2 US
* Rain On Me (2003) #7 US
* Southside [Lloyd feat. Ashanti] (2004) #24 US
* Wonderful [Ja Rule feat. R. Kelly & Ashanti] (2004) #5 US
* Only U (2005) #13 US

External links
* http://lyrics.activelyrics.com/A/ashanti/index.html

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