Nearly six years after signing with Dr. Dre’s Aftermath, Marsha Ambrosius finally released her solo debut – on another label. The British songstress, who has worked with the likes of Nas, Busta Rhymes, Game, Styles P and Hi-Tek, spoke to Rap-Up about her relationship with the Doc.
“Cool. It was a mutual decision to go separate ways,” she said of splitting from the ‘Math in 09. “I think in doing the deal I always just wanted to produce and write under that label, like doing the features with Busta Rhymes and Game and things like that, and work under the Interscope umbrella. As far as putting out solo records, they never really had success in R&B before so I took a backseat as far as doing my artist thing. I think because so many bloggers and so many people were assuming that that was in the process is why it feels like it’s taken me so long to do a solo album, where I only just signed to J Records at the end of 2009. It’s taken a year cycle to do all the legal work, get the album ready, get the paperwork together, print it, mix it. All that good stuff.”
Being at Aftermath for four years, she worked on the elusive Detox. But as is the case with so many artists who’ve lent their talents to Dre’s third solo album, she has no idea if it will make the cut. “Everyone worked on Detox. Detox, we still don’t know. There’s no official tracklisting for it,” she said. “I have no idea if any of the stuff I did will make it. We’ll see.”
