Ashanti has appeared in court in New York to testify in that previously reported contract dispute with her former producer Genard Parker, who is suing the star for $2.3m, for royalties he claims he is due for helping to start her career. Ashanti's lawyers, however, say he should receive no more than $50,000.
The singer, full name Ashanti Douglas, was of course ordered to pay Parker $630,000 by a jury in New York last year, but the decision was later rejected by a judge who ruled that the jurors were not in possession of enough facts to be able to decide on damages.
Testifying this week, Douglas explained that she and her mother had worked on songs at Genard Parker's home back in 1996, but, according to Ashanti's attorney, the producer "couldn't deliver", and signed a release giving her the freedom to sign up with a label.
Parker claims that agreement promised him a percentage of sales from Ashanti's first three records, but the singer's lawyers claim that the deal became void when she was rejected by her first record company.
The case, presumably, continues.