Ashanti Says A Record Producer Tried To Get Her To Shower With Him For Recording Time

You know Ashanti, clearly — she is an R&B legend.

Back in 2018, Ashanti appeared on an episode of Conversations with Maria Menounos and revealed {that a} producer who had a “crush on her” requested her to take a bathe with him — and when she refused, he tried to instantly cost her for his or her work collectively as an alternative.

“One producer, like, we did two records together, he was like, ‘OK, I’m not gonna charge you, you’re my homie,'” she recalled. “And then, when it came time to put it on the album, he was like, ‘Well, let’s take a shower together.'”

Ashanti mentioned she thought the producer in query was joking at first, however she quickly discovered he was “dead serious.” “‘You know, let’s go out and let’s take a shower together, and I’ll give you the records,'” she recalled him saying. “‘If not, I need 40 racks per record.'”

After a while, Ashanti mentioned that she ultimately realized the producer actually was not kidding — and he or she needed to “make some phone calls” to verify “stuff was handled” relating to the extraordinarily inappropriate state of affairs that the producer created.

“I’ve been through a lot of interviews — and sometimes, I speak, but most of the time, I don’t,” she mentioned, noting that she does not at all times share the small print on “crazy situations” like this.

“I feel like at this point, at 20 years being in, and where we are in social media and what we’re doing to progressively grow in this industry, I feel like just for a woman, I had to come out and just say my piece.”