R&B Singer Ashanti’s 'Declaration' Due In June
Date: 04/03/08 | By Njai Joszor
Filed under: R&B News, Ashanti
After taking a short break from music over the last few years, R&B songstress Ashanti is gearing up to make a comeback with the release of her fourth album “The Declaration.”
The Declaration due June 3rd is the follow up to the singer’s 2004 album Concrete Rose. The disc is propelled by the chart climbing lead single “The Way That I Love You,” which is No. 18 on Billboard’s Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart this week.
Ashanti says "The Declaration" "touches on those low points in life that determine whether you're strong enough to go on. It reminds women that they can't let things get the best of them."
On The Declaration The Long Island, New York native ventures outside of The Inc. collaborating with Robin Thicke, Jermaine Dupri, LT Hutton, Babyface, and Pharrell Williams.
According to Billboard, The album is expected to feature "Mother," inspired by Ashanti's close bond with her own mother, and "Click," which she says is "a relationship record done from a female point of view. It's about when you're trying to get in contact with someone you're seeing but he's not answering, and by the time he calls you feel like, 'I don't want to talk to you now.'"
The multi-talented songbird is also working on a teen-skewed lifestyle book titled "Ashanti Style" via Jump at the Sun/Hyperion, but no release date has been announced as of yet. This is not the first literary project for the songbird, in 2004, Ashanti released her first literary work Foolish/Unfoolish: Reflections on Love - a 112 page collection of poems, also released through Hyperion.
The Declaration is due for release June 3rd via The Inc/Motown.
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i love ashanti so much she is my idol i want to be just like but better because i dont want make the same mistakes i life like her but i love her so so so much
IM glad Ashanti is still representing MURDA and still collaborating with other good artists on the album, I'm definitely coppin it, stay on your grind girlfriend!
I don't understand why so many people are now deciding to get hyped over Ashanti again! Just a few years ago when her lps were failing and she was fading, people were making fun of her voice, dance moves, and image now people wanna kiss her ass just because they're tired of singers like Beyonce and Rihanna? What bullsh*t!
WOW! ASHANTI DONE CAME UP, THAT'S WHAT I'M TALKIN' 'BOUT, REAL SINGING! NOT HOLDING BACK TRYIN' TO BE CUTE! I GIVE HER VOCAL COACH PROPS FOR HELPING ASHANTI, CAUSE SHE NEEDED HELP WITH HER SINGING LIKE MARY J. BLIGE GOT FROM HER VOCAL COACH, GO HEAD ASHANTI! THIS MIGHT BE THE 1ST ASHANTI SONG I BUY.
HEY JAMIE LYNN DIS IS BRITTANY AND YOU ARE RIGHT ABOUT WAT DEY SAY IT WASNT NONE OF HER DAMN BUSINESS DATS WHY I SAID F*CK GOTTI AND JARULE CAUSE I AM A FAN OF ASHANTI TOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!11
I'M SOOO GLAD SHE FINALLY COMING OUT WIT AN ALBUM ASHANTI IS MY GIRL, I LUV ASHANTI! ALWAYS BEEN A FAN I JUST HATE DAT JA & IRV DOING HER LIKE DAT. SO WHAT IF SHE WASN'T THERE FOR THEM LIKE DEY SAY SHE SHOULD HAVE I WOULDA BEEN THE SAME WAY I WOULD BE LIKE HEY DATS NONE OF MY BUSINESS I DIDN'T HAVE NOTHING 2 DO WIT IT SO I'M NOT PUTTING MYSELF IN IT BUT OF COURSE I WOULDA KEEP IT COOL WIT EM CAUSE IT'S NOTHING
I thought she was working for Murda Inc. What hapenned to that?
I see Ashanti is on her global grind, but I thought that she was no longer with Murda Inc.