Your debut album Ashanti turns 25 next year and you’re in the process of re-recording it. How do you feel about that album now? We are rerecording it so I will own my masters.
Sonically, it will be a lot clearer. It was 25 years ago so it’ll sound a little more new, obviously, but with the same classic vibe. What I’ve learned is that I’m just really grateful to have written records that stand the test of time.
That I can still go to an arena and hold the mic in the air and hear everyone sing those lyrics is a beautiful feeling. Owning my masters is really important to me. Nowadays, obviously, things are a lot different compared with back when I first came out as an artist.
But after 20 years, you get the right to go in and legally rerecord your masters … and take back what’s yours, so to speak. Hopefully it inspires artists to try and take control from the beginning – hopefully you don’t have to wait 20 years! But if you do, you go in, you get it done and you have fun with it.
You and your husband, Nelly, have been together for decades. What do you like most about him and what gets on your nerves? He has got to have the biggest heart I know.
He is so generous and genuine – he will literally take the shirt off of his back and give it to you. He’s really a beautiful person. And he taught me a lot about staying positive and looking at the glass half full, as opposed to half empty.
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