Ashanti speaks
Posted by Media Outrage on July 8, 2008
Ashanti recently spoke to Pr.com. Here’s what the sexy chanteuse had to say….
Via PR.com:
PR.com: I don’t know if this is true, but I heard that at the BET Awards you were star struck by Rihanna and wanted to sit next to her to get her autograph? Is that true?
Ashanti: You heard what!?! (Laughs) Where’d you hear that?
PR.com: Internet rumors.
Ashanti: Be honest Allison. Does that sound true (laughs)?
PR.com: I’ve been doing this a long time. Nothing surprises me anymore.
Ashanti: (Laughs) No.
PR.com: Is there anybody who does make you star struck? Is there anybody you’ve performed with where you did feel nervous, or it did feel surreal to you?
Ashanti: At the pre-dinner for the BET Awards I had the opportunity, it was so spontaneous… Anita Baker, Jill Scott, and Maxwell were up on the stage and they were singing. Jill Scott performed. She did an amazing show and she just did this freestyle at the end of the performance. So she was just singing, singing, singing and it broke down acapella. Nelly was actually hosting the dinner, so he was grabbing all the singers out of the audience and pushing them up onstage. He loves Anita Baker! So he pushed her up onstage, then Maxwell went up onstage and then they pushed me up on the stage and I was on the stage with Anita Baker, Maxwell and Jill Scott. That was amazing for me!
PR.com: You visited The Boys and Girls Club of Glen Cove, Long Island, which is your hometown, earlier this month. You donated a generous amount of money to The Boys and Girls Club of America. Tell me how that experience was for you?
Ashanti: It was an amazing experience, just to go back to The Boys and Girls Club. I actually got my start there. My first talent show that I did, I sang a Mary J. Blige record and that’s kind of what motivated me to go out and get a record deal. So, it was just very full circle how I was able to come back and donate the money, and to instill that we want to keep kids dreaming big and thinking outside the box, and get them off the street. Provide something for them to do. I love, love, love kids! So anything involved with children and the betterment of children, I always want to be a part of. To be able to come back to my very own, and I literally could spit from my yard to The Boys and Girls Club. I lived like two seconds away from it, my old house. It was like, “Oh My Gosh! This is home!” Some of the kids I used to babysit, so when I walked in there it was a really amazing feeling. And they actually named a street after me in Glen Cove, which is really surreal! I was actually crying, and I couldn’t believe it. What’s even crazier than that is they already named a street after my grandfather called “James Davis Way.” So, they have my name and my grandfather’s name on the same street.
PR.com: So you’re, like, the superhero of Glen Cove then.
Ashanti: (Laughs) I’m gonna get a big “G” with a cape!
PR.com: Do you have any film projects coming up right now?
Ashanti: I have my fingers crossed. There are two things that I’m working on right now. Hopefully they come through. One of them involves me being a little more in back of the camera, rather than in front of it, which I’m really excited about. Nothing is signed sealed and delivered yet. You know how Hollywood is, but I definitely have my fingers crossed.
PR.com: Are you going out on tour for The Declaration album?
Ashanti: I definitely want to go out on tour. I want to do something different this time. With me being gone for four years, I definitely want to get a chance to get more intimate with the people again and get out there. I want to do a House of Blues run, which I think we want to start end of August going into September. Then we’re going to do a big one hopefully top of 2009.
To read the entire interview with Ashanti click here.
cupcake stl said
Who Cares about this witch
Ms. E said
Why is this relevant?!
Yasmine T. said
Yea that one question doesn’t even sound right. Why would Ashanti be star struck with Rihanna someone who entered the game after her?
Dickwell Thrust said
Please Mo stop posting this chick her album sales are lower than a hooker’s knees on a Saturday night….this chick is highly erelevant…..
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beach chick said
I am not an Ashanti fan…
NEXT!
Yasmine T. said
LOL @ DT
Ms. E said
LMAO @ DT
1coolazzchic said
why oh why does ashanti continue to speak??? she sucks more than superhead. i just heard her song today called i got that good good. wtf is she thinking. all i know if i catch my 13 or 8 year old singing it im caving their chest in. she needs to try to cash in on that good good cause her career is critically injured, about to be hooked up to life support.
2020VIZN said
I told yall, I told yall, I yold yall yesterday damnit…………………..I like……………………………………………MYA!! I told yall why this chicken was still relevant. Allow me to reitterate:
Ashanti is still relevant for three reasons, because of the Murder Inc. stuff, she has a rapper boy friend and her clothes are tighter than the skin on Lil kim’s face.
I will give her this, her voice is improving but she is still far from a songstress. And everyone of her hit songs have been someone elses hit. she takes rap songs and sings over them. remember the song she jacked from Biggie? And what about that the one she jacked from Scarface? and there’s more. And have you ever seen her dance? Oh Gaaaaaawwwwd.
Now, if you’ll excuse me, I’m gonna go home and put some water in Buc Nasty’s mamma’s dish, Good Evening
DC's Finest said
I am laughing at the haters who had all the negatives comments. I only have this to say… if she isn’t relevant? Why did ya’ll read the interveiw?……. Bug Dummy!
shay said
DC..you said it..
Sound like folks were whining…I hate Ashanti…why is she relevant..blah, blah…
Although this was funny..
Please Mo stop posting this chick her album sales are lower than a hooker’s knees on a Saturday night.
Love Ashanti..keep doing you ma.
Patanjali Ramlall said
Ashanti?? Who the hell is she?
I’ll turn this back to Ms. E. ARE some of us living on different planets? What about the rising prices of Fuel, Food, and Fantastic garbage that you see on TV?
I’m sorry, it’s too much for your moth-sized brains to comprehend.
I am not one of Oprah’s fans, however, she is a realist, or her advisers are, and they do not monkey around with humanity.
beatbanga77 said
“SIMPLE ANSWER!!!!!”
@ DC Finest and pat;nkdghghi Ramlkl’hg*y47g
The interview was read because it was posted…
It’s a stress reliever but not a nessasary interest… Like taking a shyt…
Y give u a shyt y it was read or y it was posted .. Mfckas felt like they wanted to read and then followed up….
Now it’s ya job to come blast people who have an opinion… (so the opinion gods have spoken) f^ck ooutta here..
Ashanties cool wit me…. But if someone doesn’t like her shyt cool wth me 2..
Fckit..
beatbanga77 said
Again..
It’s a stress reliever but not a nessasary interest… It’s Like taking a shyt…