Ashanti and Nelly joyfully welcome a baby boy after long-awaited motherhood.

Looks as if Ashanti has a new baby to sing about: her first child, with rapper Nelly.

The “Baby” singer revealed Monday that she and the “Hot in Herre” rapper have recently welcomed their baby. She showcased her post-partum figure in an Instagram video shared on Monday. “Four weeks post-partum, you have no idea what this body can do,” she said, wearing labor recovery shorts.

In her caption, Ashanti humorously reflected on her life plans, implying they haven’t always been “on time.” Before becoming parents together, Nelly and Ashanti had a previous relationship. They were together intermittently for 11 years before splitting in 2013. They rekindled their romance in September 2023 and got married that December.

“I’ve been waiting to be a mom for a long time now but nothing could prepare me for EVERYTHING motherhood brings!” Ashanti wrote. She added, “I’m so proud of my body for giving me my baby, baby, baby, baby, baby.”

Ashanti, 43, and Nelly, 49, welcomed Kareem Kenkaide Hayes on July 18, a representative confirmed to People. “The proud and happy parents are so in love with KK,” the rep added.

Representatives for Ashanti and Nelly did not immediately respond to The Times’ request for comment on Wednesday.

Ashanti announced the birth of her first child weeks after Nelly had a run-in with police in his home state. He was arrested on August 7 at a St. Louis-area casino on suspicion of possessing ecstasy pills.

At the time, the Grammy winner’s legal representative Scott Rosenblum told the Associated Press that the rapper had won several jackpots, and when he sought to collect them, the officer who would have supervised the transaction “needlessly” ran a warrant search.

According to AP, online Missouri court records show that Nelly, born Cornell Haynes II, was cited in June 2018 in Maryland Heights, Mo., for operating a vehicle without proper proof of insurance. A judge issued a warrant in December 2023, and it remained outstanding.

Rosenblum claimed that the police official had no probable cause to justify searching Nelly, who Rosenblum said hadn’t been notified of the warrant and did not know about it.

“I am 100% confident this case will go nowhere,” the attorney said. “And we will be asking for an inquiry into this officer’s conduct.”

Kareem Kenkaide is Nelly’s third biological child. He shares two grown children — Chanelle and Cornell Haynes III — with ex-girlfriend Channetta Valentine. He also adopted his late sister Jackie’s two children after she died of leukemia in 2005.

Source: Los Angeles Times