Ashanti is the Latest Artist to Obtain Masters, Plans to Re-record Debut Album

Ashanti appeared on “The Tamron Hall Show” yesterday. She revealed that she recently obtained the masters to her 2002 debut album, “Ashanti,” and is planning to rerecord the chart-topping album for an independent rerelease.

Ashanti shared the happy news on the show explaining, “It’s so surreal. I have an amazing legal team, and I got my first record deal when I was 14 years old, so understanding and seeing how things have changed so much from then to now and conceptually understanding what you’re signing is so imperative; it’s so important nowadays. The fact that I’ll be able to rerecord my first album and put everything together,” she said.

The self-titled debut album went triple platinum and included the hit singles, “Baby,” “Happy,” and “Foolish.”

“It’s so humbling. It is such an honor. I’m so grateful. It’s such a blessing, you know, the fact that we are still here, we’re living through a pandemic, and these blessings are still coming in—it just makes me so happy again, so humbled, and such a believer. There’s a higher power, and I think that just being a good person and praying and putting your heart into things—you get that energy back, and I think that’s so important. So I’m just really, really happy,” she told Tamron Hall.

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