Ashanti Defends Herself Against Irv Gotti: ‘I was NEVER Disloyal!’ + Says She’s In Strange Space With Ex-Boyfriend Nelly

December 3, 2013 by in Latest News with 3 Comments

There’s no beef, there’s definitely no beef. But, for me again just me talking about my movement and being brave and braveheart and kinda just revealing a little bit more of myself at this point in my career…I feel like Irv kinda paints a picture of what happened with me and Murder Inc very one sided. I hear him talk about, ‘Oh she’s disloyal, and oh she didn’t throw up the M’s, oh she didn’t do this and that’ and I feel like it’s time to kinda set the record straight on what it really is….I’m a Libra, I’m a very loyal person. You know anybody with any sense of logic could see that I rode out. I rode to wheels fell off. I went to the trial, I was there. I was filiming in Vancouver and in my contract I wasn’t ever supposed to leave Canada. I came to the court, to the trial like three or four times when I was not supposed to. I was contractually not doing what I was supposed to be doing. You know, paying those round trip tickets to come and support. And it’s crazy because at that time me and Irv weren’t even speaking. We weren’t speaking at all…I had did the remix album The Collectibles, you know because Vindi had asked to leave and we owed the albums. And there was stuff going on with that budget money that I wasn’t happy about. There was a lot of stuff going on so, we weren’t talking. We weren’t really in the studio.

On why she’s setting the record straight on her loyalty and the hurtful comment that Irv made about her recording with Nelly:
I’m gonna always have love for Irv regardless. We made history together. Our chemistry in the studio is amazing. But I’m not going to sit here and let the picture be painted one side anymore. Cause I feel like… you know alright I’m cool. Irv was hurt through a lot of the situation, because there was a lot of things that happened and a lot things went on so I kinda just stayed silent. But now, I just feel like when I hear the interviews, and he’s going on about being disloyal, I gotta just make it duly noted that’s not what it was. I feel like there were a lot of things. That time for all of us was very hard. There were things going on with G-Unit and the 50 [Cent] beef. You know personal things and just a lot. So it wasn’t just one particular thing that made him say, ‘Oh you know…’ The stress of the whole situation…I remember specifically him being like, ‘Maybe you shouldn’t come to the studio. You over there with Nelly, you Deerty Ent. Go record over there.’ So for him to put out there that I’m so disloyal and I didn’t put up the M’s, that’s not what happened at all.
If she’s spoken to Irv recently and if she’s hurt by comments he’s made about her:
 I haven’t spoke to him in a while but again, there’s no beef like absolutely none. I’m not hurt. I just want to make it clear because again I feel like..sometimes people feel like I don’t speak up or I don’t (defend myself). And I’m always the one to take the position as I’m like I don’t need to defend myself, I know what’s right… I’m good.’ I know what happened, I’m cool. Again, there’s no beef between us. It was just tough. After that dialogue it was like..what do you mean? So what am I supposed to do. It’s causing friction. And it all comes out of…we were in a great space. Everyone was making records and making money and traveling. And then the Feds and 50 and this whole black cloud. And it just made it really complicated for everyone. Everyone was going through their own personal stress. But, again for someone to say that I’m disloyal, that’s not what I’m going for.  And for you to think that I’m hurt. I’m not hurt because I got over it. This was how many years ago…. It definitely hurt then, now I’m ok. But that last time I saw Irv doing the interview, I’m like come on son don’t sit up here talking about I’m disloyal…like don’t do it. I’m going to always have love for Irv regardless of what happens, you know what I’m saying. We had some of the most amazing times of our lives.