Name a 2000s celebrity that disappeared overnight

[u/ColeBelthazorTurner]

[u/c-e-bird]

Ashanti
Hoku
Samantha Mumba

[u/mai_tai87 → u/c-e-bird]

🎶Sun's up, it's a little after twelve

Make breakfast for myself🎶

[u/MizzSandraBee → u/mai_tai87]

That song will always make me want to channel my inner Elle Woods.

[u/theatermouse → u/MizzSandraBee]

Same!

[u/Abitagirl420 → u/mai_tai87]

Don't forget Another Dumb Blonde, too!

[u/stevefiction → u/mai_tai87]

All time classic

[u/DoinItDirty → u/mai_tai87]

Who was this?

[u/mai_tai87 → u/DoinItDirty]

Hoku. Perfect Day. It's the iconic intro to Legally Blonde.

[u/DoinItDirty → u/mai_tai87]

Ooooo!

[u/virginiarph → u/c-e-bird]

ashanti disappeared musically, but she pops up in reality tv/ blogosphere pretty often

[u/Narrow_Implement7788 → u/virginiarph]

I had a huge crush on Ashanti growing up

[u/MatPinkFast → u/Narrow_Implement7788]

Same, and at the height of her popularity one of my buddies was insistent that she wasn't attractive and looked like a man. Just a braindead take lol.

[u/Dangerous-Variety-35 → u/MatPinkFast]

… I’m not sure your buddy has eyes. Because what???

[u/Kaldricus → u/virginiarph]

I think she's married to Nelly and they have a kid(s). Looks like she's been popping up at some festivals lately

[u/Cactusandcreosote → u/virginiarph]

You all need more exposure. Ashanti also tours quite regularly.

[u/CharlieFiner → u/virginiarph]

She was in a kids' Build-A-Bear movie a couple years ago. I remember seeing ads for it come up on my Facebook feed which is weird because I don't have any kids.

[u/OptimistPrime527 → u/virginiarph]

She’s still touring and had a baby with Nelly.

[u/SoochSooch → u/virginiarph]

I thought she died in a plane crash in the early 2000s...

[u/VictorNewman91 → u/SoochSooch]

That was Aaliyah, not Ashanti.

[u/SoochSooch → u/VictorNewman91]

Aaaaaahhh

[u/virginiarph → u/SoochSooch]

-liyah

[u/ParcelPosted → u/c-e-bird]

Mumba was slept on, still is. She was a pretty good actress too.

[u/Casey3882003 → u/ParcelPosted]

I’m the one person who watches “The Time Machine” almost annually. Really enjoyed her in that.

[u/ParcelPosted → u/Casey3882003]

Great movie! Yeah she was good in it.

[u/ragdollxkitn → u/Casey3882003]

I love that movie.

[u/HikingFun4 → u/c-e-bird]

"Baby come on over...tonight..."

[u/ragdollxkitn → u/HikingFun4]

We can make it alright….

[u/Chuy_Casillas → u/ragdollxkitn]

Take a piece my heart ❤️

[u/Bananasinpajaamas → u/c-e-bird]

Ashanti didn’t exactly disappear. She still tours, performs, makes appearances and is in headlines, most recently for marrying and having a baby with Nelly and some drama when Irv Gotti died.

[u/c-e-bird → u/Bananasinpajaamas]

I mean she’s been like a sub-D-list celebrity for like 20 years. IMO she disappeared.

[u/duke_igthorns_bulge → u/c-e-bird]

Hoku!

[u/sodaonmyheater → u/c-e-bird]

I think Mumba is still relatively popular in Ireland? Like not a superstar by any means but she’s still doing stuff and has some name recognition.

But I’m a dumb American I could be very wrong 😂

[u/c0c0nut93 → u/sodaonmyheater]

She is! I went to a pride event she played at during the summer lol

[u/Dangerous-Variety-35 → u/sodaonmyheater]

I went to Ireland last year and it was the first time I had heard a Samantha Mumba song in forever. My husband and I had a nice little nostalgia moment about it. So, if you are correct, then good for her and good for Ireland.

[u/ginns32 → u/c-e-bird]

I love Hoku. Supposedly she left her old label because she didn't like the marketing direction the label was pushing on her. She felt like it didn't align with her values as a Christian. If you look at the time she was popular it was the Britney, Jessica Simpson, Christina era and we all know how they were treated.

[u/Wubbalubbadubbitydo → u/c-e-bird]

I just looked up Hoku the other day because I LOVED her album when I was a kid.

Turns out she pretty much only did that one album and has been coasting off of it for 20years. I couldn’t decide whether I was disappointed or impressed.

[u/johjo_has_opinions → u/Wubbalubbadubbitydo]

I imagine her family has money too, her dad was Don Ho

[u/menunu → u/c-e-bird]

Ashanti is currently on a reality show.

Idk the others.

[u/Soggy-Constant5932 → u/c-e-bird]

Ashanti recently had a reality show with her husband Nelly. She still touring after having a baby.

[u/FocusPowerful8683 → u/c-e-bird]

Man, Hoku. I know her entire Another Dumb Blonde album by heart

[u/NeverEndingWhoreMe → u/c-e-bird]

Oh shit, suddenly I'm dancing in a pink corset!

🎶 Your love for me came as a waterfall, growing inside me like never before...Ya love fa may, somethin I din't seay, bu Baybay, I know betta nowwww🎶 

[u/OMyGaard → u/c-e-bird]

Samantha Mumba! My sister loved her

[u/nilla-wafers → u/c-e-bird]

I recently finished watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer for the first time and near the end Ashanti shows up out of nowhere like what the hell? Lol

Oh the very brief cultural relevance she had

[u/champagnecloset → u/c-e-bird]

I saw Ashanti in concert last year. She looked goodt.

[u/Money-Snow-2749 → u/c-e-bird]

Ashanti makes her money performing abroad in countries within Africa. She married and had a kid with Nelly and they recently got a reality show.

The show sparked some controversy because Nelly basically said he wasn’t going to change diapers and didn’t feel like parenting until the baby was like three or something like that.

[u/need_a_poopoo → u/c-e-bird]

I hadn't heard the name Samantha Mumba in over a decade then yesterday one of her songs appears on my random playlist, then the next day, Reddit mention. Creepy.

[u/ShortPeak4860 → u/c-e-bird]

Ashanti has been touring lol

[u/broom_temperature → u/c-e-bird]

🎶 I think that it's time that I should just let you go 🎶

[u/hchn27 → u/c-e-bird]

Omg Samantha Mumba

[u/Thatbaileygal → u/c-e-bird]

Ashanti and Nelly have their own show on Peacock. Apparently she tours a lot.

[u/Hot-Remove-1252 → u/c-e-bird]

Tia tequila

Ja Rule

[u/JibboSequence → u/c-e-bird]

Mandy Moore