Ashanti called out her rapper husband, Nelly, for refusing to help out with their infant son Kareem “KK” Haynes, born July 2024.
The 44-year-old “Foolish” singer and the “Dilemma” rapper have different parenting styles in their new reality TV series, “Nelly & Ashanti: We Belong Together” that premiered recently on Peacock TV.
In a viral clip from the series, Nelly, 50, refuses to change baby KK’s diapers. He’s on tour, and Ashanti is stuck at home with their son.
“I’m split about his tour,” Ashanti said in a confessional on the series. “My first response is that I’m super happy for him for putting [the tour] together. The wife and mommy side of me is like f***!”
She joked: “Let me call Live Nation because I don’t like this at all. Nah, the wife side of me and the mommy side of me is still a little sad. You know, daddy’s gonna be gone for a long time.”
Ashanti tells Nelly that staying at home with a baby is “a lot.” But Nelly reassures her that she’s going to be fine.
“It’s all on you,” Nelly says to her. “I ain’t even gonna lie, I ain’t got nothing for him.”
In a later scene, Nelly explains that he’ll take over when their son is old enough to say he’s hungry. “Until he can say, ‘I need to use the bathroom,’ it’s gonna be a lot on your lap,” Nelly tells Ashanti.
Nelly is like a lot of fathers who are not nurturers – they’re providers.
Later, the “Hot in Herre” rapper tells his friends, “As soon as he start walking, I told her, I said, ‘Enjoy. Because as soon as he get to walking and talking, he with the crew.'”
Ashanti asked Nelly how he can sleep when the baby cries at night.
Nelly responds, “Do y’all really be up at night? I heard about it.”
Ashanti says, “You know what? It’s absolutely ridiculous that you’ll still be dead sleep and he’ll be mad loud.”
“I don’t even hear y’all,” Nelly claims. He said it’s “a gift” to be able to sleep while a baby’s crying. “I’m blessed with that tune-out.”
Nelly reminded Ashanti of a conversation they had before she kicked him under the table. Nelly said, “Baby, I’ll give you the world, I just ain’t changing no diapers.”
Nelly has two grown children, Chanelle, 31, and Cornell, 26, by ex-girlfriend Channetta. He also adopted his late sister Jackie’s kids, Shawn and Sydney, when Jackie died of leukemia in 2005 at age 31.
Watch the scene and the trailer below.
