Ashanti revealed that she and Nelly were expecting their first child together during an April 2024 interview with Essence.

This is the couple's first baby together and Nelly's fifth. He shares his daughter Chanelle, born in 1994, and his son Cornell, born in 1999, with his ex-girlfriend Channetta Valentine.

Nelly is also dad to son Cornell III (who goes by Tre), 25, and daughter Chanelle (who goes by Nana), 30. The rapper also adopted and raised his niece Sydney and nephew Shawn after his sister ...

This will be Ashanti’s first child. Nelly is already dad to son Cornell III (who goes by Tre), 21, and daughter, Chanelle (who goes by Nana), 26, and helped raise niece Sydney and nephew Shawn ...

Now, Ashanti's father Ken-Kaide Thomas Douglas has revealed that Nelly asked him for his daughter's hand in marriage before popping the question. "We had a discussion about him wanting to marry her.