“That’s like one of my favorite songs and it’s like seven minutes,” she laughed.
The Long Island, New York native described it as an “amazing feeling to know that a record I wrote 20 years ago is scorching again right now in another generation.” She also expressed her love for the metaphors written in the lyrics of “Baby,” which became a top-ten charting hit, and the visuals created within the words of “Rescue.” She appreciates the love that she has received over the years including sampling in the “Wockesha” Remix featuring MoneyBagg Yo. “Obviously ‘Foolish’ is my biggest record,” she acclaimed to herself. While as an artist she’s in love with most of, if not all of, her own music, Ashanti admits to one specific record’s success. I don’t want to stray too far because I’m really proud of what we created, but I’m excited about it.” She continued to express how she believes that listeners will “have some great memories” to go along with the newly cut album. It’s an amazing feeling to sonically make it feel that same rawness, but with the 2022 spin on it – just sonically making it crispy. “I mean, it makes the most sense after being in the game for 20 years and having the rights to be able to go back and rerecord my first album. “The business side of me,” the “Foolish” singer laughed. When asked by Girls United editor D’Shonda Brown why she made the decision to re-record her RIAA-certified triple-platinum debut album, she responded by letting her entrepreneurial mindset take the reigns. Ashanti, which featured notable names in hip-hop and rap including The Notorious B.I.G., Ja Rule, and Irv Gotti, debuted at number one on the US Billboard 200 and Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums charts while also earning three Grammy nominations. Ashanti‘s self-titled debut album Ashanti was released collaboratively on Apvia Murder Inc. Ashanti has an estimated net worth of $40 million dollars.
She ranked #17, with Foolish selling more than 7.4 million copies in the U.S. She also ended the decade at number 38 on the Top Artist of the Decade list. Ashanti ended the decade (2000–09) as the third top new R&B artist behind Alicia Keys and Beyoncé. As of 2012, Ashanti has sold over 30 million records worldwide. In 2003, the self-titled debut album won Ashanti her first Grammy Award for Best Contemporary R&B album. Ashanti broke records again by having three top ten songs, "Foolish," "What's Luv?" and "Always on Time", on the Billboard Hot 100 charts in the same week, being the first woman to accomplish this feat and being second only to the Beatles. In the same week, she became the first female performer to simultaneously hold the top two places on the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart with "Foolish", and "What's Luv?" (with Fat Joe). The album set a Soundscan record as the biggest opening week sales for a new female artist, outselling debuts by Alicia Keys and Lauryn Hill. Ashanti is most famous for her eponymous debut album, which featured the hit song "Foolish", and sold over 503,000 copies in its first week of release throughout the U.S. Ashanti (born Ashanti Shequoiya Douglas October 13, 1980) is an American singer-songwriter, record producer, and actress.