Chris Gotti, the brother of late music executive Irv Gotti, believes that Ashanti should've spoken to him in person after his sibling died. He also said that she didn't attend his funeral despite a report claiming that she was there.
Chris alleged that Ashanti avoided her former label, Murder Inc. Records, after leaving the company in 2009, and once again spoke on the R&B singer on the September 30 episode of The Breakfast Club. Around the 30-minute mark of the video below, Chris said that he and Ashanti haven't spoken "in person" since Irv died last February.
"For her not to call me after [Irv's] passing, she [texted] me, that that don't feel right," Chris said. "I did everything for them. Never did I get one thing in return."
Chris added that Ashanti is a "legacy artist" but without Murder Inc, she would have never released "hit records." After discussing a few Ashanti classics like "Foolish," Chris said Ashanti did not attend Irv's funeral despite previous reports.
"She did not. She sent some flowers," Chris said. When asked if the acknowledgment provided comfort, Chris called the flowers a "good gesture" but said that the singer "should know better" and suggested that they needed a face-to-face conversation. "She should come see me physically. I love Ashanti. ... That's little sis, for real."
Chris added that Ashanti once thanked him for "taking care" of her and explained he never had a problem with the singer's husband, Nelly. "The day of Verzuz, he pulls up and I said, 'What do you want to do?' I'll roll n***a this off the stage,'" Chris recalled. "She said, 'No, I'll give you the sign if there's a problem.' But that's the day they got back together. That's why you don't get in the middle of relationships."
Chris also commented on Ashanti not reaching out to his mother after Irv's passing.
"All bets is off when it's death. It's over. Nothing Irv could say. Nothing no more," Chris continued. "It's over. Why can't you? And again, if it's because of your husband, you could come see me and talk to me."
Elsewhere, Chris said that he would "appreciate a visit" from Ashanti and suggested that it was because of his and Irv's guidance that she became a star.
Last May, Chris said on podcast Lets Keep it 100 that Ashanti downplayed the work that he and his late brother put in to make the vocalist a success. Even after a public falling out between Ashanti and Irv just a few years before his passing from a massive hemorrhagic stroke, she gave credit to him in an Instagram post and interview on Angie Martinez IRL.
On the episode, Ashanti said that she "really wanted" a reconciliation with the late producer and that they "made history together."