While certain headlines still stick out today — "The Solo Beyoncé: She's No Ashanti," wrote The New York Times in 2003 — Ashanti says there were never any issues between the genre's women ...

and then dust. It only took three years for Ashanti to get out of the game completely and for Beyoncé to soar higher. Known to pen music that would fly off the charts, Keri Hilson’s star in a ...