Ashanti

That bitch, you better stop telling this motherfucking story, bitch.

[laughs] That bitch said, "I'm feeling like Ashanti these days."

Yeah.

[laughs]

Bismarck had previously been negotiating with Lord Salisbury for the cession of Heligoland in exchange for African territory.

Though Bismarck fell from power early in eighteen ninety, his successor Caprivi continued the bargaining and concluded on July first, eighteen ninety, the famous Heligoland Treaty, whereby Germany obtained Heligoland and in exchange gave up all claim to Uganda, thus nullifying the exploit of Peters; Zanzibar and Pemba Islands; Witu, a district on the British East African coast hitherto claimed by Germans; Nyasaland, a region which Peters had coveted as a southwestward extension of German East Africa; and some disputed territories in western Africa on the border between Togoland [German] and Ashanti [British].

The treaty has been described as a one-sided bargain, giving England a whole suit of clothes in exchange for a trouser button.

But Heligoland was more than a button; it was a useful naval base for the protection of Hamburg and Bremen.

What song do you think was on?

Like Ashanti, for sure.

Or like,

you remind me of a girl.

No.

Remember who was sitting there? Ashanti.

[laughs]

Remember the singer Ashanti in Uncle Crum's Bakery?

Yeah.

[laughs]

We're, we're like...

I was like, "Holy s-shit, like, I'm hanging out with, like, a real..." We were 17 years old.

Her role for the first half of the film is just like...

the horny friend archetype like her role is to is to is to make eyes at nora for and make googly eyes and go oh girl he's so fine like it's channing tatum at all like that's her whole job um but in love with her is miles played by the singer mario and i i found a really it's an interesting um kind of transition with Ashanti, with Coach Carter, that Mario is the same kind of thing where he was recently at this time coming off having one of the seminal pop hits of his generation.

Mario has a song called Let Me Love You.

That was

And like when I think about driving to school in 2005, in my 85 Oldsmobile 98, like if I think of what's playing on the radio as I'm driving to school, Let Me Love You is high up there.

It was like everywhere in my world.

But like Ashanti.

Also a Baltimore fella.