Ashanti ft. Rick Ross – I Got It
Proving what we’ve always known: Rick Ross is the modern day Ja Rule…
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Jonathan Bradley: She was cuter with Jeffrey.
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Alfred Soto: She whispered sweet nothings with her sweet nothing voice on a couple of good hits, notably “Happy.” She remains sweet but the track is a nothing. As for Ross, he grunts like he knows Ashanti’s the kind of decorative object brought to award shows.
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Anthony Easton: I never quite figured out what the power of Rick Ross’ contribution was, except Mack-trucking his ego over much more interesting singers (often younger, often female). 8 for her singing, 3 for his production. 5.5, rounded up.
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Brad Shoup: The synthbell and vocal melodies are separated by a half-step or so of sweetness; the harmonics are really neat. But neat choruses are kind of her thing. And anyway, I know we’re all playacting here, but the only prices over Rozay’s head are on the dollar menu.
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Megan Harrington: For obvious reasons, when I see Ashanti rubbing against Rick Ross all I can hear is “what’s luuuuuv,” which is truly doing Rick Ross no favors. Fat Joe is hardly hanging in the hall of fame, but Rozay sounds especially unconvincing here. To make matters worse, Ashanti is still a hook singer foremost so asking her carry the song, dud verse and all, is well beyond her measure.
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Edward Okulicz: J.Lo is singing about being real again, Ja Rule is out of prison, of course Ashanti’s album has found the right time to emerge. Her voice is still the same saccharine nothing it always was, and putting Rick Ross on top doesn’t help at all — any time he interjects on the track he buries her, like a gas that expands to fill the room. Despite that, “I Got It” has a few neat tricks — the first line of each verse reminds of me of the flow from “Ignition (Remix)”… well, okay, it has one neat trick.
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Katherine St Asaph: If this were 2000 critics would cover this rejoice in snide comments about Ashanti needing reams of backing vocals: misguided, but not really wrong. A decade of production since and this still sounds dated to five separate years, none of which granted Ashanti’s vox much more gravitas. Industry churn still sucks — there are always newer, thinner voices — so I want to support this, but I can’t imagine who it’s for.
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fyi lt hutton, the producer on this, was also responsible for da brats “in love wit chu” which makes the results of this collab even more disappointing