During a conversation with R&B artist Ashanti, rapper Fat Joe (real name Joseph Cartagena), brought up the idea of Ashanti battling her past collaborator Keyshia Cole. Ashanti responded:
“If they want to see it, I ain’t mad.”
Fat Joe responded with excitement explaining why he would never do it:
“I love it, like me personally I wouldn’t do it cause I’m a bad loser and an even worst winner.”
Keyshia Cole has yet to respond.
During the conversation, Fat Joe revealed also let it be known that Irv Gotti and Ja Rule wanted her off the single “What’s Love” and have Jennifer Lopez on the collaboration to reach the Latino market.
This would not be the first time this happened with Irv Gotti wanting Jennifer Lopez on a project over his own artist.
In an interview with BlogXilla of GlobalGrind, Ashanti revealed that it was indeed her who sang most of J. Lo’s hit “I’m Real,” including the hook, backgrounds and adlibs. Apparently she demo’d the track for Jenny before she was signed to Murder Inc, and they never removed her vocals, only having Lopez sing two verses.
“It was bitter sweet, because I was really excited because it was J. Lo, you know what I mean? But I was so mad at Irv, cause I was like ‘You know I wanted that record!'”
Check out the twitter reactions to the whole scenario below!
Ashanti, Ciara, Akon and Usher all trending. It’s 2005 all over again. pic.twitter.com/H1pxliekWi
— ashantinews (@ASHANTINEWS) May 17, 2020
Ashanti had 1 good album (1.5 if you count Chapter 2) but Twitter make it seem like she was putting out bangers & getting overlooked because they found out she wrote 2 2 J-Lo bops.
— Lillian (@LillzTrackLife) May 17, 2020
Bruh
Ashanti vs Ciara is good.
Ashanti vs Keyshia Cole is good too (thou they’re very different styles)
But how TF did Cassie get included in this convo?
She has MAYBE one song. Maybe. And she just breathes through it. And the best part about it is Ryan Leslie’s beat
— Papi Planta a.k.a. “Yo, You Grow Food, Right?” (@evduzit) May 17, 2020
Ashanti had 1 good album (1.5 if you count Chapter 2) but Twitter make it seem like she was putting out bangers & getting overlooked because they found out she wrote 2 2 J-Lo bops.
— Lillian (@LillzTrackLife) May 17, 2020
Ashanti??? Underrated??? Get out of here she ran the late 90’s, early 00’s https://t.co/2iYX043ei4
— Pierre (@____youngsimba) May 17, 2020
You know what we need next? Ashanti vs J-Lo IG LIVE battle.
But no-one can play any songs written or lip-synched by the other. pic.twitter.com/oWUi3Jr4zS
— Scarlett (@CarolineA_M) May 17, 2020
