25-year-old rapper<\/a>, best known for hits like ‘Taste (Make It Shake)’ and ‘Rain’, appeared during Ashanti’s set as she teamed up with Sean Paul for a gig at the AO Arena.<\/p>\nFootage from Sunday night (April 20) shows Aitch, dressed in a white tracksuit, appear on stage after the American singer introduced him as her “homie”.<\/p>\n
Ashanti said: “We are all the way in Manchester right now. I got people out here. I got family out here, you know what I’m saying?<\/p>\n
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“So I feel like, since we’re in Manchester, it’s only right that I bring out my family, my homie.”<\/p>\n
The arena erupted into cheers as the Moston musician Aitch burst onto the stage and greeted the home crowd.<\/p>\n
The duo performed the Grammy award-winning US singer’s hit track ‘Rock wit U (Awww Baby)’, which is sampled in Aitch’s ‘Baby’.<\/p>\n
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Ashanti surprised fans at the AO arena by bringing out Manchester rapper Aitch(Image: Manchester Evening News)<\/p>\n
The collaboration appeared to come as a shock to fans as Aitch hyped up the crowd, shouting “Manchester let me see them hands!” as thousands threw their arms into the air.<\/p>\n
Sean Paul and Ashanti have team up at the AO Arena in Manchester as part of their ‘Bring It Tour’.<\/p>\n
The joint tour by the musical greats promises to become a flashback to the noughties, with iconic Sean Paul tracks like ‘Mad Love’, ‘No Lie’ and ‘Got 2 Luv U’.<\/p>\n
The Manchester show is the eighth tour date after the pair opened on April 11 in Aberdeen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Manchester rapper Aitch surprised fans at the AO Arena on Sunday nightAmerican singer Ashanti joins Sean Paul for…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":36790,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8813],"tags":[21149,748,393,4884,2465,21150,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-36789","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-manchester","8":"tag-ao-arena","9":"tag-britain","10":"tag-england","11":"tag-great-britain","12":"tag-manchester","13":"tag-manchester-nightlife","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36789","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36789"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36789\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36790"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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American singer Ashanti joins Sean Paul for their ‘Bring It Tour'(Image: Manchester Evening News)<\/p>\n