Ashanti Rock Wit U Tour Announced as New Album Takes Shape

The Ashanti Rock Wit U tour is set to take the Grammy-winning R&B singer to Australia and New Zealand this November, giving international fans a headline run built around the hits that defined her early-2000s breakthrough. The announcement arrives as Ashanti also signals that new studio work is moving forward.

In an interview with news.com.au, she discussed a run beginning in Perth on November 9 before dates in Brisbane, Sydney, Melbourne and Auckland. The outlet describes it as her first headline tour of the region in more than a decade.

The tour name reaches back to “Rock Wit U (Awww Baby),” a record that remains central to Ashanti’s catalog alongside “Foolish,” “Happy” and collaborations that helped define Murder Inc.’s pop-R&B era. Those songs combined conversational melodies with hip-hop production and unusually direct emotional writing.

The Ashanti Rock Wit U tour also arrives at a different point in her personal and professional life. She told the outlet that storytelling remains important to her next music and pointed toward 2027 for a new album. That would be her seventh studio set, following a long stretch in which singles, acting and touring carried much of her public output.

A new album presents a useful challenge: honor the vocal phrasing and clarity listeners expect while writing from a life that has changed substantially. Veteran R&B artists often connect most powerfully when they resist recreating an old era and instead use the familiar voice to describe present-day stakes.

For fans outside the tour markets, the larger news is that Ashanti is treating the live run and new recording work as connected parts of a return. The catalog supplies immediate recognition; new songs will determine how that story develops beyond celebration and nostalgia.

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