In a recent interview on the Tamron Hall show, legendary singer-songwriter Ashanti shared the news that she now has control of her masters and is re-recording her 2002, self-titled debut album, “Ashanti.”

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“It’s so surreal,” the singer said. “I have an amazing legal team… The fact that I’ll be able to re-record my first album and put everything together and…”

Then, Hall jumped in. “Wait, that’s the big announcement! I was going to build up to that!… She’s recording the album now as an independent artist!”

Ashanti also talked about her youth and the days before she rose to fame in New York City.

“I used to live in the basement of my house — I wanted to feel like I had my own apartment,” she said. “So I used to be downstairs in my own section, and I would put on the Cartoon Network on mute, and I would just write. And it sounds so crazy, but I would be .having cartoons on, playing the beat, and then just writing. It made me feel comfortable. It allowed me to kind of get into my zone.”

Ashanti recalled a time she was at the Murder, Inc. studio saying, “I would be the only female, and there would be guys in there rolling dice and doing things that guys do and throwing money on the table, and there was a lot of stuff in the air,” she recalled. “And I would be in the corner … just writing in my pad.”

This news comes as the cherry-on-top that we all needed. Hot New Hip Hop reported

that Ashanti previously announced she would star in and produce a romantic comedy movie.

Ashanti is one of the many artists who has decided to take ownership of the rights to their music. As previously reported singer, Anita Baker recently suffered through a lengthy battle for the rights to her music and was finally able to own her masters.