Ashanti’s new album “The Declaration” is set to drop July 3rd. According to Billboard.com the LP is a collection of songs tied together under the theme “womanhood and empowerment”.  “It’s been a long time coming for change, and the timing was just right,” she tells Billboard.com. The album “touches on those low points in life that determine whether you’re strong enough to go on. It reminds women that they can’t let things get the best of them”, she added. The hit single “The Way That I love You”, which is currently No. 18 on the Billboard charts is included in the LP. Robin Thicke, Jermaine Dupri, LT Hutton, Babyface, and Pharrell Williams all produced songs on Ashanti’s album.

“Declaration” is expected to feature “Mother,” inspired by Ashanti’s close bond with her own mother, and “Click,” which she says is “a relationship record done from a female point of view. It’s about when you’re trying to get in contact with someone you’re seeing but he’s not answering, and by the time he calls you feel like, ‘I don’t want to talk to you now.’”      

Shanti plans on releasing a book titled “Ashanti Style” via Jump at the Sun/Hyperion. No release date has been announced yet.