Shortly afterwards, Ashanti released her own debut album, Ashanti, and debut single, 'Foolish,' on Ja Rule's own Murder Inc. They were two of the biggest pop and urban hits of the year, and both featured Ashanti. That same year, she caught the attention of Fat Joe, and he invited her to sing background for Big Pun's unsuccessful posthumous single 'How We Roll'.Īshanti's big break, however, didn't come until early 2002, when, almost simultaneously, Ja Rule released the song 'Always On Time' and Fat Joe released 'What's Luv?'. She first was brought into the public eye as a featured background vocalist on Vita's 2001 hip hop remake of Madonna's 'Justify My Love,' which appeared on the soundtrack to the movie The Fast and the Furious. Ashanti Shaquoya Douglas (born on October 13, 1980) is an American R&B singer, who rose to fame during the early 2000s as a featured singer on many hip-hop songs before releasing her first albums.
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