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Fabolous

Ashanti

Release date: 2nd September 2016

From Summertime Shootout 2: The Level Up
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About This Track

Fabolous builds 'Ashanti' around a looped sample of Ashanti's own voice, the singer's refrain anchoring a track that uses her name as shorthand for a particular kind of effortless cool. The production sits minimal and hypnotic, letting Fabolous's voice occupy the space without clutter. The verse is a sustained flex, moving between boasts about money and clothes and a more reflective mode where Fabolous weighs the costs of his own trajectory. He compares himself to a kingpin, wonders whether running drugs might have been easier than building respect through rap, and circles back repeatedly to Ashanti as a reference point for the kind of magnetism he's chasing. The repetition is deliberate, not decorative; it's the sound of someone turning a name over in his mind, testing what it means.

"Ashanti" is a track by Fabolous, from the album Summertime Shootout 2: The Level Up, released 2nd September 2016. Full lyrics are available below.

About the Artist

Fabolous

Fabolous

Lyrics

Ashanti

[Intro: Goldie (Ashanti sample)]

(Mark Henry)

You say I'm bein' foolish

So I'ma show you what the truth is

It's only you, it's only you

It's only you

I'm not always there when you call

But I'm always on time

Gave you my all (ooh baby, ooh baby, ooh baby)

I'm not always there when you call

But I'm always on time

Gave you my all (ooh baby, ooh baby, ooh baby)

Ooh, baby (ooh, baby)

Baby, baby, baby, baby, baby

Ooh, baby (ooh, baby)

Baby, baby, baby, baby, baby

Ooh, baby (ooh, baby)

You need to get with this

Ooh, baby (ooh, baby)

You, yeah, need to get with this

[Verse: Fabolous]

Came in the game flippin' Big's like Ashanti

My new ish is foolish like Ashanti

You miss me? Ahh baby like Ashanti

I told shorty, "You know the rule like Ashanti"

I'm chasin' paper, sweatin' out my Saint Laurent tee

It's all about my paper, even wrap it 'round the fonty

By '04, I had the coupe Bentley Conti'

Shit, I don't know if it's Givenchy or Givanchy

Fuck how I pronounce it, just know that I counts it

Didn't care if I was there, now they gon' announce it

This is me reflectin' on my niche before I found it

Like Escobar, thinkin' back to when he used to ounce it

Wonder if it's easier to be a kingpin

Than it was makin' peasants respect a king pen

Table sole of niggas who bring them things in

Club full of girls, guess I still bring them things in

That's what me hostin' do

To hustlers who flip hustles, that's what we toastin' to

This the flow that got my baby mama ghostin' through

You niggas far from the niggas that I'm closest to

Y'all too emotional, sensitive ass niggas

You might but you might not, tentative ass niggas

I said it then I meant it, definitive ass nigga

This ain't your house, you old rent-to-live ass nigga

You should just do R&B like Ashanti

Shorty got me mesmerized like Ashanti

Chinky eyes, thick thighs like Ashanti

'Bout to let mami manage this like Ashanti

Killin' hoes, killin' foes and killin' flows

Black jeans, black hoodie, these are killer clothes

Damn, maybe I shoulda signed with Murder Inc

But my units full of Gs, I don't know what Irv would think

I don't give a fuck what you niggas heard or think

Give a fuck 'bout your feelings 'til I die, word to Chinx

[Outro: Goldie (Ashanti sample)]

All my days I've gone without you

It's so perfect when I'm with you

I know your heart can't take no more

I keep on comin' back to you (comin' back to you)

Comin' back to you (comin' back to you)

Comin' back to you (comin' back to you)

Comin' back to you (comin' back to you, comin')

Ahh baby, ahh baby, ooh baby, ooh baby

[Skit]

Girl: Yo, hurry up! It's about to start

Fabolous: Oh you like Power?

Girl: Yeah turn this up, this my show

Fabolous: So what if like I wanted to pull a Ghost and like get out the game and do somethin' else like you know what I'm sayin'? Put my money somewhere, you know, fall back on. You know what I mean? Hustlin' and gettin' to it, just really just do somethin' else

Girl: But what else are you like gonna do? Like you know the ins and outs of this, like...

Fabolous: I know, but like, just, you know what I'm sayin'? Do somethin' else, it's many hustles out here, it's many ways, you know what I'm sayin'?

Girl: But if you got the money, power and respect, how you walk away from that?

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From Summertime Shootout 2: The Level Up

2016
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  1. —Faith in Me
  2. —Sex Wit Me
  3. —Team Litty
  4. —4am Flex
  5. —For the Family
  6. —Ashanti
  7. —To the Sky
  8. —My Shit
  9. —I'm Goin Down
  10. —Check on Me
  11. —Ah Man
  12. —Wishing (Remix)

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