Nelly says that his first date with Ashanti was like taking a “check drive,” 

Throughout an interview with People, Nelly shared why he believes his relationship with Ashanti is flourishing now.

“It’s concerning the good outweighing the dangerous,” Nelly mentioned.  “What you thought mattered lots, when you undergo different eventualities, you understand that’s not likely as large of a deal as you thought it might be.”

 “Otherwise you get one thing that you just thought you was lacking, and it nonetheless doesn’t compensate or fill a void, and also you’re like, ‘Rattling, I believed that might imply extra,’ however that doesn’t. It’s simply progress,” he added.

In 2003, Nelly and Ashantly broke up 10 years later. After being separated for one more decade however they rekindled their love in September 2023. Three months later, they married in a non-public ceremony.  Final July, Nelly and Ashanti additionally welcomed their first little one collectively, Kareem Kenkaide Haynes, a child boy.

“Everyone don’t get an opportunity to, if you happen to may say, take a check drive,” Nelly continued. “It’s like when folks say, ‘It is best to at all times check drive a automobile before you purchase it.’ I hate to attenuate that as a result of that is actual life, so that you don’t need it to really feel like that.”

“We had an opportunity to check drive a relationship to grasp that, ‘Yo, that automobile was the most effective factor I had driving round that factor, man. Fireplace it again up, child,” he mentioned.

In June, the ability couple debuted their Peacock actuality present actuality tv present, We Belong Together, the place they share their journey again to like.

Together with their actuality present, Nelly launched “Spin the Block” which is impressed by his love for Ashanti.

Nelly raped, “After we mentioned goodbye / Guess it wasn’t what we actually meant / ‘Trigger mile aftеr mile / I maintain passing up locations we been / And wе kicked up some mud and received caught in some mud / However we received again to us ultimately / Yeah that look in your eyes seems to be like this previous truck / Like we spinnin’ the block immediately.”