Foolish (Ashanti song)

"Foolish"
"Foolish"
Single by Ashanti
from the album Ashanti
Released	February 11, 2002
Genre	R&B
Length	3:47
Label	Def Jam; AJM; Murder Inc.;
Songwriter(s)	Ashanti Douglas; Mark DeBarge; Etterlene Jordan; Irving Lorenzo;
Producer(s)	Irv Gotti
Ashanti singles chronology
Audio sample
	"Foolish" file; help;
Music video
	"Foolish" on YouTube

"Foolish" is a song by American singer Ashanti. It served as her debut single, the first from her self-titled debut album (2002) and was released by Def Jam Recordings, AJM, and Irv Gotti's Murder Inc. Records. It was written by Ashanti, Etterlene Jordan, Mark DeBarge and Irv Gotti, while production was overseen by Gotti. The song heavily samples DeBarge's "Stay with Me". Due to the inclusion of the sample, Mark DeBarge and Etterlene Jordan are also credited as songwriters. A promotional version of the single called "Unfoolish" features a verse from The Notorious B.I.G. from his song "F--king You Tonight".

The song was released as the album's lead single on February 11, 2002. It spent ten consecutive weeks at number one on the US Billboard Hot 100 and on the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart, becoming Ashanti's second number one and third top ten on both charts. It is Ashanti's highest charting single as a lead artist. Elsewhere, "Foolish" became a top ten hit in the United Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand and Canada. The song was nominated for Best Female R&B Vocal Performance at the 2003 Grammy Awards, and won the Soul Train Music Award for Best R&B/Soul Single – Female. In 2009, Billboard ranked it 19th on its Hot 100 Songs of the 2000s Decade.^[1]

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