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Ashanti Declaration Release Date: 2008 06 03 Label: The Inc/UniversalMotown Rating:

On her fourth proper studio album, Ashanti remains with The Inc., but you would not know it unless you checked for the logo. The closest tie is the occasional presence of ex-Irv Gotti associate and longtime Ashanti collaborator Seven Aurelius (who now calls himself Channel 7), followed by a minor assist from Chink Santana. Gotti himself is nowhere to be found. L.T. Hutton (Snoop Dogg, Bone) is behind most of the production work, with a handful of notables -- Rodney Jerkins, Jermaine Dupri, Ron Feemster, Babyface, Akon, and...Diane Warren -- on separate tracks. Even though this album marks a nearly complete break from The Inc., it's very much in line with what came before it, hardly a major departure. Each Ashanti release has had at least one major single, and in this case it's "The Way That I Love You," more in the mold and spirit of "Rain on Me" -- full of similarly effective melodramatic flourishes -- if much more vengeful in nature than depressive. Nothing is quite as irresistibly fun as "Baby" or "Rock wit U," or as sexy as "Only U," but "You're Gonna Miss" comes close in the case of the former, while the lifeless Akon/Nelly feature "Body on Me" is no good at all, containing no distinguishing qualities. Bottom line, this is neither a great nor a poor Ashanti album. It's decent, just like the rest of them. Andy Kellman, All Music Guide

Tracks:

	Title	Composer	Time
1	Intro	Aurelius	1:05
2	Way That I Love You	Douglas, Hutton	4:27
3	You're Gonna Miss	Douglas, Hutton	3:14
4	So Over You	Douglas, Jerkins	4:00
5	Struggle	Douglas, Hutton	4:34
6	Girlfriend	Douglas, Hutton	3:30
7	Things You Make Me Do	Aurelius, Beats, Biz, Douglas, Thicke, Vein	4:28
8	In These Streets	Douglas, Feemster	4:24
9	Good Good	Douglas, Dupri, Seal	3:37
10	Body on Me	Douglas, Haynes, Thiam	3:20
11	Mother	Douglas, Edmonds	5:10
12	Shine		3:40
13	Declaration	Aurelius, Douglas, Yahel	3:55

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Declaration [Bonus Track] Release Date: 2008 Label: Island

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