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Track Listing
1. Intro/Medley
2. Shany's World - (featuring Chink Santana)
3. Rock Wit U (Awww Baby)
4. What Are the Gonna Say Now - (skit)
5. Breakup 2 Makeup
6. I Found Lovin'
7. Rain on Me
8. Then Ya Gone - (featuring Chink Santana)
9. Living My Life
10. Black Child - (skit)
11. Feels So Good
12. Carry On
13. Sugar Shack, The - (skit)
14. Story of 2
15. Ohhh Ahhh
16. Shany Shia
17. Sweet Baby
18. U Say, I Say
19. I Don't Mind
20. Outro - (featuring Chink Santana)
Album Notes
Personnel includes: Ashanti (vocals); Chink Santana, Gunnz (rap vocals); Demetrius (keyboards); Rob Bacon (bass).
CHAPTER II was nominated for the 2004 Grammy Award for Best Contemporary R&B Album. "Rain On Me" was nominated for Best Female R&B Vocal Performance. "Rock Wit U (Awww Baby)" was nominated for Best R&B Song.
Skits notwithstanding, Ashanti's sophomore album is a confident leap away from her self-titled debut. She makes the most of her lightweight, breathy voice, incorporating airy, summery, string-laced arrangements in a variety of settings that go down extremely smoothly even, as in "Living My Life," when they're about that thorniest of topics, the struggle to make it.
Ashanti never hectors or browbeats, instead soaring effortlessly above the Murder Inc. goons who populate the skits between the cuts, sounding persuasive even on an ostensibly downbeat song such as "Carry On." The lyrics may tell us she's had enough, but there's a quiet, constant center to her voice that says otherwise. She's also at home with a sexy lyric such as that of the self-descriptive "Ohhh Ahhh," and her delivery is confident and understated even here. CHAPTER II is an assured, leisurely ride with an artist who's becoming more accomplished with time and experience.
Industry Reviews
3 stars out of 5 - ...She co-writes all the material, which ranges from the effervescent and catchy 'Rock Wit U' to the sensual slow-jam, 'Rain On Me'...
Mojo (09/01/2003)
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