Ashanti is a protective mother. Nelly says the children learn more on their own (exclusive)

Nelly and Ashanti Take different approaches to parenting.

The married couple showed their lives for Peacock’s new reality series Nelly and Ashanti: We belong togetherAnd now they open up where they differ when it comes to parenting their 11 -month -old son, KK.

“For me, it’s obviously my first child,” says Ashanti, 43, people and describes himself as “a lot of mom Björn-ish” with KK, whose full name is Kareem Kenkaide Haynes.

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“We have to cook everything and clean everything. Everything must be organic. His sheets are organic, his socks, silicone, everything,” continues the Grammy-winning singer. “I’m just very, very protective.”

Nelly, 50, was already a father to four other children – Shawn, Chanelle, Sydney and Cornell – Before he welcomed KK with Ashanti, which he silently got married in December 2023. “I think I understand a little more about children,” he says. “They learn more on their own.”

The rapper describes Ashanti as “motherly overprotective”, while he considers himself more “security protection.”

He explains, “I know that if they do not learn certain things when they reach a certain age, we will pay for it, I promise you. And it will hit us back in a big way.”

“Hot in Lord” musician jokes of their future “, right now I know she loves it, but that boy turns 17 or 18, she will be like, ‘Why does he act like this?’ And I will ask (Ashanti’s mother and manager, Tina Douglas) for the video of him that is three.

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More seriously, Nelly notes Ashanti is a “big” mother of KK. “I have no complaints. I wish all the mothers could see how she comes down a bit,” he says. “You wish every child had that kind of love.”

Throughout the reality series, Nelly opens to fight financially in her childhood with parents Cornell Haynes and Rhonda Mack. He hopes to give KK another type of life.

“I’m just trying to be a better father than I had. And it can’t twist, I love my father, but I’ve gone through a lot,” says Nelly, adding that Ashanti has “some tough shoes to fill” while I praise his mother, Tina.

“Yes, Momager is a completely different beast,” Ashanti asks. “I’m very grateful.”

Nelly and Ashanti: We belong together Now flows on peacock.