Ashanti Shequoiya Douglas(born October 13, 1980 in Glen Cove, New York), professionally known as Ashanti, is a Grammy Award-winning American singer, songwriter, record producer, actress, model, and fashion designer who rose to fame in the early 2000s. She is most famous for her eponymous debut album Ashanti which featured the hit song "Foolish", and sold 503,000 copies (Gold) in its first week on release in the USA in April 2002, a record breaking feat. In the same week, she became the first female performer to simultaneously hold the top two places on the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart with "Foolish", and "What's Luv" (with Fat Joe). She broke records again by having three Top Ten songs (Foolish, What's Luv, & Always on Time (with Ja Rule)) on the Billboard Hot 100 charts in the same week. Ironically, Ashanti wrote and sang background on the song "Ain't It Funny" sung by Jennifer Lopez which was also in the top 10 charts at the same time as "Foolish", "Always on Time" (with Ja Rule) and "What's Luv" (with Fat Joe).
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Ashanti

"I KNOW"
ASHANTI
I.G:
Dear Lord,
I come to you a humble man
Asking your forgiveness for all the sins
That I’ve committed throughout my life
And lord,
I ask of you one more thing
Have mercy on the souls of my enemies
For they not know what they do
As we proceed
ASHANTI:
Oooh…
(chapter II)
Chorus:
I know
It gets hard for us sometimes
And I know, we can’t
Stop living this life
I know
It gets harder everyday
But I know, we can’t
Stop living this way
1ST VERSE:
Some days, I would say
There’s gotta be a better way
I don’t know if I wanna live my life like this
For each and everyday
But now I’ve found that, I’ve got to stay
Even though it gets hard, I came this far
And I can’t live my life no other way
CHORUS:
I know
It gets hard for us sometimes (yeah… hard for me)
and I know, we can’t (mm….)
stop living this life (living in this life)
I know
It gets harder everyday (Ooh… ooh…)
But I know, we can’t
stop living this way
2ND VERSE:
I tried to figure out if there’s another path of me
Because all of these ups and downs and ins and outs
Be kinda stressin’ me
But I could never see myself
Living like nothing else it’s hard to tell
But damn I knew this life too well
BRIDGE:
Sometimes people just don’t know (they don’t know)
What they would and what to follow (Ooh…)
Even when it’s don’t seem right (doesn’t seem right)
Can nobody live your life
CHORUS:
I know (I know it gets hard for us sometimes)
It gets hard for us sometimes
And I know, we can’t (I know, I can’t)
Stop living this life (living this life)
I know
It gets harder everyday (mm...Ooh…mm…)
But I know, we can’t
Stop living this way
Ooohhh…~
Ooohhh…~
CHORUS 2x:
I know (I know, I know that it gets hard sometimes)
It gets hard for us sometimes
And I know, we can’t (we can’t)
Stop living this life (stop living this life)
I know
It gets harder everyday (harder everyday)
But I know, we can’t (I know…Ooh…)
Stop living this way
I know (I know, I know that it gets hard sometimes)
It gets hard for is sometimes
and I know, we can’t (and I know we can’t)
Stop living this life (stop living this life)
I know
It gets harder everyday (Ooh…yeah…)
But I know, we can’t (Ooh…)
Stop living this way (living this way…eh..eh..ehh…)
I.G:
All my people, living that everyday life
Sometimes you gon’ have ups, sometimes you gon’ have downs
Fight through that ya
Keep pushin’, don’t ever stop pushin ya
Don’t ever stop believin’
Take the good with the bad (oh…)
Ya know, it’s gonn’ be aight (oh…)
You know what I mean ???
Ha (oh…)
Ashanti, I.G (oh…)
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