Produced by Irv Gotti My mind is on Braveheart.

It got a little sensitive. 10/13/1980) Ashanti Photos (11) Ashanti's ... Add a child for this couple. They actually just enlisted John Singleton to direct, so that’s going to be super cool. Ashanti: Irv reached out, and we talked and it was cool.

We yelled at each other. We spoke for like three hours on the phone. I did another interview, and they were asking me, “So did you write 16 bars on this?” I’m like, “That’s kind of like my 16!”. Check out our New "Top 10 Worst Celebrity Husbands", Go To Ja Rule's Profile   Go To Ashanti's Profile, "He's just starting to talk now.
So what’s your first memory of Hip Hop? We did “Pac’s Life” together with me, ‘Pac and T.I. Music - Singer. DX: What exactly happened?

Me and [Ja Rule] were always talking. So, I felt that’s what we needed to do. But it’s another thing to be able to make an album that you can listen to from top to bottom that kind of tells a story.

Why Famous: Ashanti, album. He's got a lot of words.". Ashanti: When you go through things with people you go through highs and lows, ups and downs. At that time, after The Declaration, that’s kind of when the climate started to go downhill music wise, and lower numbers were becoming the norms.

I listen to lyrics, and I appreciate lyrics. Then it just got to a point after my The Declaration album, like I said, years had gone by. I’ve been guilty by association. I can’t say that. Watch Queue Queue.

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Things are not always going to go as planned and as you want them to go, but you have to just deal with it.

No known children for this relationship. In Ashanti, they’ve recruited a songwriter.

She unknowingly possessed the hairline fracture during the filming of the heavily choreographed video, “I Got It,” this past January. So, I’m just glad that everyone is in a space now that we’re cool. We spoke for like three hours on the phone. Not sentences.

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This video is unavailable. I’m a lyricist. Her self-titled debut sold 503,000 units the first week of its release, she had three singles simultaneously on the Top 10 of the Billboard charts, and has gone on to sell 13 million records worldwide. The game being: work, the business behind her work, and that of her fifth studio album, her first in six years, Braveheart. We went through a space, which was not cool. Some of them are way deeper than others underneath the surface.

And I feel like at that point, in that moment in my life, writing the album… I was writing from real life experiences. Playlist Best of Ja Rule: https://goo.gl/9KWsHb Subscribe for more: https://goo.gl/Vvw4Bt Music video by Ja Rule performing Wonderful. Say what? DX: What are your five go-to Tupac tracks?

HuffPost Live streams 12 hours of original programming 5 days a week with highlights showing overnight and on weekends. For me, as a writer, the most therapeutic thing to do is to get it out on paper, put it into a record, and allow other people to relate to it. I think a lot of people have just gone through situations. Back then it was kind of new. I feel like a lot of people go through being scarred in relationships. Twelve years removed from her debut, the Long Island native is now an independent artist and the head of her own record label, Written Entertainment. Runs house?” I was fortunate enough to have two radios. But it was great because the reaction was amazing, and it felt like…it was funny. Even As A Raiders Fan, Too $hort Has The Perfect Opinion Of Colin Kaepernick's Protests, Lecrae On Ferguson Riots: "We've Forgotten The Government Works For Us", Meet The Young L.A. Producer Whose Beats Brought Out The Old Kanye, Slimkid3 Explains How Brian Austin Green & Korn Aided The Pharcyde’s Rift, Could Bay Area Slaps & UK Rap Hybrids Be The Future? There were things that were done and said, and I felt like if you have a problem with me come talk to me.

HipHopDX: Things are coming full circle for you getting the gig to score for a Tupac biopic.

Just behind the scenes—from fiscal year, to budget, to the commodity, to splitting yourself in half. When you love someone hard, you hate hard. Ashanti: Not at this particular moment. Ashanti had an 1 year affair with Ja Rule when Ashanti is currently available. I think Rihanna was scarred. ; it was few years ago.

Watch Queue Queue So it only made sense. For me, again, it was just about being vulnerable, being brave and allowing the fans and the people to see a side that I haven’t shown yet.

You know what you were feeling, and it’s just a constant reminder when you hear it playing back. Her confidence isn’t outlandish—she’s a record breaker with hefty commercial success.

Come holler at me. Just in a way that you are able to protect yourself. So I was able to record from my vinyl record onto a cassette tape, bring my cassette tape with me in my purple boom box on the block, and I was providing the music for the block in my purple boom box. I think “Against All Odds” is a positive message.

So they were really strict with it, and I felt like, “Okay, we’re going to try something different.” I’m used to an obstacle and being able to endure. “Who’s house? Ashanti: Everybody is cool, which is great. Now, I can understand things to come in the future. Like, if I built a foundation, I put out X amount of albums, I sold X amount of records, why do you warrant a percentage of what’s already been built?

The stats aren’t anything to scoff at. Released as the second single from The Last Temptation, Mesmerize is one of Ja Rule’s most-remembered hits and peaked at number 2 on the Billboard Hot 100. Whatever. Subscribe to HuffPost Live Today: http://bit.ly/13RzzjwWatch The Latest From HPL Here: http://goo.gl/KFIW2**** More Below ****Ashanti joins HuffPost Live to discuss her relationship with rapper Ja Rule.HuffPost Live is a live-streaming network that puts you, the community, front and center. On “Unfoolish,” Says “Puff Swore That Irv Took His Beat” [Video + Q&A]. Scoring?
Trust no one. Ashanti.

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Wait, I can’t say that either. Are you reading up on him? DX: You’ve talked about walking away from seven record deals. Business is shrewd, and no one’s your friend at the end of the day. Don’t expect too much from people. So it’s one thing to be able to record a lot of hot records. Get More HuffPost Live!Watch: http://live.huffingtonpost.com/Follow: https://twitter.com/HuffPostLiveLike: http://www.facebook.com/HuffPostLive

When you’re recording and you listen to yourself, you hear the playback and you wrote the record. L.T.