'I obviously thought she was gonna be there a little bit sooner,' Ashanti began (1:23). 'Cause there's a bunch of different stories, but I feel like that's what I was told.'Īshanti also touched on her recent Verzuz battle with Keyshia Cole, and why she chose to remain on the stream while viewers waited more than an hour for Cole to show up. So for them, business-wise, it's like, 'Why would we have the single out with her and then not be able to shoot the video?' And then, I think that's when they got Tamia to shoot the video and then do the song. 'I guess he felt like I was being oversaturated.
he didn't want me to shoot the video,' Ashanti explained (13:12). 'Fab and them wanted me to shoot the video, and I think Irv. But why was she ultimately replaced in a subsequent version and the song's official video? Ashanti said she believes it was simply a business move. The singer addressed the matter during a recent appearance on Hot 97' Ebro in the Morning. Ashanti acknowledged her lines in the track were originally Tamia's, but agreed to record Tamia's parts at the request of Fab and his team. Although Fab and Tamia seem to disagree on what really happened, Ashanti has finally shared her side of the story-and it's a pretty simple explanation. Fabolous' 2003 track 'So Into You' returned to the headlines last year, after the rapper tried to explain why Ashanti and Tamia appeared on two different versions.