The Village Voice, June 11th, 2002
Who will reconcile Ashanti's divided soul? Not her. Certainly not her. In song and in conversation, she barely admits to the contradictions she straddles: r&b sweetness and hip-hop sex talk; Ivy League aspirations and street hustle; girls and boys. Ashanti blows past this stuff with a showbiz shrug and smile. Divided soul? Not her. Daughter of a singer father and a dancer mother, Ashanti is a showbiz baby as surely as Britney and Christina, even has a Disney connection (danced in a TV movie called Polly) and an old contract with Jive (signed at 14). She started dance lessons at two, but h...
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