Nelly compares the first time dating ashanti to test driving the car (exclusive)

Would Nelly and AshantiMarriage be so successful today without a few years apart?

The Grammy-winning artists first dated in 2003, broke up a decade later and spent another decade from each other before reuniting in September 2023 and silently get married Three months later. Now they cost PeaCock’s new reality series Nelly and Ashanti: We belong together and opens up on the reason why their relationship works.

After their first division, as they told about the show, the couple hated each other. But it turns out that everything they needed was “time”, Ashanti tells People.

“You are growing. It’s all about the good thing about the bad,” explains Nelly. “What you thought played a lot, when you go through other scenarios you realize that it is not really as big as you thought it would be.”

He adds, “or you get something you thought you were missing, and it compensates or still fills a void, and you are like,” Damn, I thought it would mean more, “but it doesn’t. It’s just growth.”

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This week, the rapper also released a country’s single inspired by the resumed relationship, “Spin the block”, with the lyrics, “when we said goodbye / guess that was not what we really meant /” to mile back to us at the end / yes, I have done what we have done this, which we have raised today.

The song of the song is exactly how Nelly feels. “Not everyone gets the chance, if you can say, take a test drive,” he says with a laugh. “It’s like when people say:“ You should always test a car before you buy it. “I hate to minimize it because this is real life, so you don’t want it to feel that way.”

Ashanti, laugh, clock in, “It’s a good metaphor.”

Her husband explains, “It’s almost the decisive factor, we had a chance to test a relationship to understand that,” yo, that car was the best I had driven around that, man. Fire it back, baby. ”

In addition to welcoming each other back to their lives, the couple now shares a son, KK, 11 months. One thing you won’t look at Nelly and Ashanti: We belong togetherHowever, is the child’s face.

“For me, just like a new mother, like a mother bear, I was like,” I will keep my little expensive child near the vest, “says Ashanti about the decision.

Right now she is not sure when they will share KK’s face with the public. “We are coming in a year now. His birthday is July 18. And I don’t know, we have to talk about it and see how you feel,” says “Always on time” artist, gesture to Nelly.

“He is so fun,” continues Ashanti by KK, whose full name is Kareem Kenkaide Hayes. “I want to show him a few days because he is so sweet and so funny, and he is such a happy baby and smiles and laughs.”

Nelly, on the other hand, is not sure they will have the choice to reveal KK’s face themselves. “They will catch our ass outside and take a picture,” asks “Hot in sir” musician. “That’s what’s going to happen.”

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