'We're gonna be going back into the lab, probably at the end of the year or top of next year,' she said last month during rehearsals for the MTV Video Music Awards. Once she gets off the road, the Glen Cove, New York, native will concentrate on her next release.

camp will be heading out of the country in the next few weeks for an international tour. Off the TV screen, Ashanti will be showing off plenty of routines as well. ( Click here for photos from the video shoot.) The song's star, Ashanti, isn't left out, though: She gets to display her performance skills in the video.

Flashbacks are shown throughout the clip as precursors to their relationship. boss Irv Gotti for the video, in which she plays a woman who is so lovestruck she can't sleep and leaves her home in the middle of the night to confront the man of her dreams. Long shared directing duties with Murder Inc. princess' new video, 'Baby,' she also dictated how the shots should be filmed. Silver screen dimepiece Nia Long lent a hand to Ashanti last week in Los Angeles - not only did the co-star of such films as 'Big Momma's House' and 'Love Jones' act in scenes for the Murder Inc.

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