When you do put the two together, you're like, 'Damn it does sound like Ashanti, but something new, something 2017." On whether she'll be trying any acting roles any time soon: Let's just say, with me and Ja knowing each other for over 15 years, when I played him the record, he was like, 'Who's that? Yo thats you?' He made me start the record over! He was like, 'Oh my gosh, you gotta put that out tonight.' It's safe to say that it's very different and so dope. It's great to see people that love us individually and they love us together."
I bounce ideas off of him and he does the same. It's great to really care about and love someone that you work with and made history with. We were going to these other shows and the zoo-crazy stuff together as a family. And when he came out, it was like we became way more close than we were. When he went, we had a three-hour conversation and I wrote him while he was in and sent cards and all of that. We've gotten so much closer after what happened with Ja. It's weird because it's always been like that. It's been like that from the first time we ever worked together. We get on stage together and sometimes if we don't see each other for a few months or a few years or whatever it is, we get back onstage and it feels like we've been hanging out all day. It's real, it's always been since day one. I think it's the fact that we are extremely genuine and our chemistry is so authentic. "I think that we have a very unique relationship. He was like, 'No you're going to take longer than me, let me go first' and I was like, 'No, you wait, you got to stay as long as I do,' and he was like, 'No, I'm out!' He ended up going first because his part was a lot quicker and easier." On her musical relationship with Ja Rule:
At at first we were fighting about who was going to go first. We recorded with one session in NY and one session in LA. On reuniting with Ja Rule for "Helpless": It was something that we streamed Lin was in tears when he was watching me and Ja perform. The one thing I thought was over the top was Lin in London and we had just done the launch. He came to the studio to listen to the record and he was just like, 'Oh my gosh, this is crazy.' It was just a really, really good feeling because the project is so amazing on it's own. When Lin reached out to us and told us that we inspired that, I was super humbled. He's so brilliant at how he put it together. I didn't know if it was going to be borderline corny 'cause I was like, 'They're rhyming?' But it was so awesome. He was just like, 'I was so inspired by Ashanti and Ja Rule and when I wrote this I had them in my head and them performing this would be awesome.' I was just like, 'Oh my gosh, so cool!' So when we met him and went back stage-the show obviously is phenomenal-I didn't know what to expect. "It was so cool! People asked, 'How did you get involved?' and I put up a clip of an interview Lin-Manuel Miranda did with Conan. I would have never thought back when I was 19 that I would be in Berlin, Germany performing and having girls cry about how these records touched them." On singing for The Hamilton Mixtape: Like, I don't even know this person and to be able to perform a record that touches them like that is really cool. It's funny because last night I was in Berlin and there were so many females that were like, 'This record saved my life,' and 'I've been following you since I was six' or 'since I was nine.' To see how records really penetrate, it's such a filling feeling. It gave me the ability to grow and become more and more vulnerable as each album came out. My album as a debut artist is still in the Guinness Book of World Records. "I think it definitely set the tone for who I am and what music resonates with females-and males too. It's really a blessing." On how that album helped shape her career: I'm super blessed to have an amazing team with my momager, my attorney-a team of people that I've known since I was 14. It's an awesome feeling to know through it all-all my trials and tribulations, the obstacles, and the ups and the downs, the growing pains of the music industry-to still be here and being on tour and having people scream out your records and crying and standing on line and doing meet and greets and buying your T-shirt. On her debut album, Ashanti, turning 15 years old: During a brief but much-needed break on her recent European tour, the singer opened up to, looking back at her beginnings and teasing the projects coming in the near future.
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