The verse-for-verse Verzuz battle between Fabolous and Jadakiss on Monday (June 29) wasn’t without its moments.
In one particular highlight, before playing what Jadakiss said was his favorite Fabolous song, “Into You,” Fab cleared up the mystery as to why Ashanti ended up the hit-single instead of its original singer, Tamia.
“There is a lot of back and forth about how it was Tamia and Ashanti … Tamia is who the original song came from,” Fab explained.
“Tamia was getting surgery on her throat at the time, so we got Ashanti to do the song,” he continued. “When we did the video, she was back.”
He didn’t say that he was flat out prepared to dump Ashanti when Tamia was back in the picture but did suggest that her ballooning popularity and label — Murda Inc. — were to blame.
“Ashanti was running around because she was scorching … and it was a little bit Irv, too,” he said. “Shout out to Irv matter of fact, but you know you were supposed to make that happen.”
This is the second such story in recent months that reveals Ashanti’s former label Murda Inc seemingly undermining the singer. During an Instagram Live conversation on May 15, Fat Joe told her that their collaborative single “What’s Luv?” was almost given to Jennifer Lopez.
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The Ashanti version of “Into You” appeared on the Fab’s platinum-selling sophomore LP, Ghetto Fabolous. It also spent 26 weeks on the Billboard Hot 100 (peaking at No. 4), but interestingly Billboard credits both singers in the charting history.
Watch Fabolous explain his recollection down below.
Headline should use the word choruses/hooks, not verses.
Does anybody know what actually happened with that “Wake Up” track on 1st pressing of Street Dreams?
I mean it was probably the only song I remember from Tamia from her solo career besides the joint she had on Quincy Jone’s album. I’m just surprised she got on it because I never heard her do songs with rappers.
her first single “Imagination” features a rap by Jermaine Dupri. She got 213 on her 2nd LP. 3rd LP got Red Cafe on it.
Ashanti version: 4/5 | Tamia version: 5/5
This is what Dr. Dre meant when he said social media takes away the mystery behind the artist. Can you imagine that we’re just getting to know why “So into you” has both Tamia and Ashanti on it? After like how many years?
People already knew why this happened when the song first came out. Initially Fab said that Ashanti was over saturated on the radio and he didn’t want that to make the song fail.
couldve sworn Ghetto Fabolous is fab’s first album….street dreams was the sophomore joint…maybe im wrong lol
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