When was the record label founded that released Ashanti's debut album 'Ashanti'?
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Ashanti (album) Ashanti is the debut studio album by American singer Ashanti. Released on April 2, 2002 by Murder Inc. Records and Def Jam Recordings, the album was recorded in New York and Los Angeles between 2001 and 2002, during the period of time where Ashanti was writing for other artists. The singer worked with a variety of producers including Irv Gotti, Chink Santana, 7 Aurelius, Jared Thomas, and Reggie Wright and co-wrote all the songs on "Ashanti". Its music has the sound of R&B, hip hop, hip hop soul, and urban. The album features guest vocals from Gotti, Ja Rule, and the late The Notorious B.I.G..
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Murder Inc Records Murder Inc. Records (formerly The Inc. Records) is an American record label founded by brothers Irv and Chris Gotti in 1997.
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Independent Entertainment Independent Entertainment is a record label that is owned and founded by Nigerian R&B singer Faze. Other than Faze, there are yet no other signed artiste to the record label though. Faze showed interest in adding to the number signed artistes to the label as soon as his third studio album plies the way of success like his previous albums.
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Salted Music Salted Music is an electronic dance music record label, based in San Francisco, California, founded by Miguel Migs.
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RAS Records RAS Records, also known as Real Authentic Sound, is a reggae record label.
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Universal Records (Philippines) Universal Records Philippines Inc. is a Filipino record label founded in 1977 as a part of Warner Music Group. Since 1992, it is an independent label.
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CTE World CTE World (also known as Corporate Thugz Entertainment), is an American record label founded by American rapper Jeezy. As of December 2012 Young Jeezy had officially signed a distribution partnership between his CTE World imprint and Atlantic Records. USDA member Boo Rossini current serves as the label's President.
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Pandisc Records Pandisc Records is an American independent record label founded in Miami, Florida, United States. Pandisc specializes in releasing Miami bass, electronic, and other bass and urban artists. CDs produced by Beat Dominator and Bass Mekanik on the Pandisc label are widely used for car audio competitions.
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Nothing Records Nothing Records was an American record label specializing in industrial rock and electronic music, founded by John Malm Jr. and Trent Reznor in 1992. It is considered an example of a vanity label, where an artist is able to run a label with some degree of independence from within a larger parent company—in this case, Interscope Records was the parent company.
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Def Jam Recordings Def Jam Recordings is an American record label focused predominantly on hip hop and urban music, owned by Universal Music Group (UMG). In the UK, the label takes on the name Def Jam UK and is operated through Virgin EMI Records, while in Japan, it is known as Def Jam Japan, operating through Universal Music Japan. The label distributes releases of various record labels, including Kanye West's GOOD Music, Ludacris' Disturbing Tha Peace, and ARTium Recordings, headed by Def Jam's current executive vice president, No I.D.. Current artists include Iggy Azalea, Logic, Big Sean, Kanye West, Leona Lewis, 2 Chainz, Axwell Λ Ingrosso, Mother Mother, Afrojack, Jeezy, Jeremih, Ludacris, Alesso, Pusha T, Vince Staples, Desiigner and Jhené Aiko among others.
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Derrty Entertainment Derrty Entertainment is a record label founded by rapper Nelly who is the CEO. The president of the label is rapper Ali of the St. Lunatics. Derrty Entertainment is a division of Motown Records. The first album released under Derrty Entertainment was Nelly's "Country Grammar". In recent years, the label has collaborated with So So Def Recordings, Star Trak Entertainment and Sho'Nuff Records.
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Empire Distribution EMPIRE is an American distribution company and record label based in San Francisco, California with offices in New York City and Atlanta. Founded in 2010 by Ghazi Shami, it has released albums in the genres of hip hop, R&B, reggae, rock, gospel, Latin, Country and pop.
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Strata-East Records Strata-East Records is an American record company and label specialising in jazz which was founded in 1971 by Charles Tolliver and Stanley Cowell with the release of their first recording "Music Inc." The label released over 50 albums in the 1970s. Many of the label's releases are now hailed as prime examples of 1970s Post-Bop, Spiritual Jazz, and Afro-Jazz.
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Sussex Records Sussex Records, Inc. was a Los Angeles-based record label, founded by music executive and businessman, Clarence Avant, that existed from 1969 through 1975.
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Warner Bros. Records Warner Bros. Records Inc. is an American major record label established in 1958 as the foundation label of the present-day Warner Music Group (WMG), and now operates as a wholly owned subsidiary of that corporation. Warner Bros. Records was established on March 19, 1958, as the recorded-music division of the American film studio Warner Bros.. For most of its early existence it was one of a group of labels owned and operated by larger parent corporations. The sequence of companies that controlled Warner Bros. and its allied labels evolved through a convoluted series of corporate mergers and acquisitions from the early 1960s to the early 2000s. Over this period, Warner Bros. Records grew from a struggling minor player in the music industry to become one of the top recording labels in the world.
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Iron Fist Records Iron Fist Global LLC (previously Iron Fist Records, ) is an American hip hop record label, founded in 2004 by DeShaun 'Proof' Holton. Cleveland '1st Born' Hurd is the current president and chief executive officer of the label, Khalid El Hakim is the vice-president and chief operations officer.
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Manhattan Records Manhattan Records is an American record label, owned by Universal Music Group and operates as a branch of Capitol Music Group.
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MTA Records More Than Alot (MTA) Records is an independent record label founded by Chase & Status in 2009, specialising in "exceptional" music. The label releases a large variety of music including rap, soul, drum and bass, dubstep and deep house. It has played a pivotal role in the success of Nero, Redlight, 16bit, Ben Pearce among others, and many of its releases have charted in the United Kingdom.
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Grinnin' Records Grinnin 'Records is a British independent record label, founded by Andrew Kwame Asamoah, former A&R Manager at RCA Records, Sony Music. In addition to the label, Grinnin' Records works in partnership with Vocal Management company. Both are primarily focused on urban music genres.
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Get Low Records Roc Solid Records (formerly Get Low Records) is a hip hop record label founded by Memphis Bleek in 1998.
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Tuff City Records Tuff City Records is a New York-based record label founded by journalist Aaron Fuchs in 1981. Initially concentrating on hip hop music, the label's roster expanded to include doo-wop, dancehall, and hip hop-jazz fusion, and releases included reissues of music from as far back as the 1940s.
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Trancelucent Productions Trancelucent Productions is predominantly a psychedelic trance record label, founded in 2001 by Omri "Homsy" Harari.