“I have a question… I may regret this,” she started, eyeing Nelly with a smirk. “You mentioned you brought someone with you to Verzuz… who was that?” The query referred to the evening in 2021 when the couple reconnected after practically a decade aside. While the second was romantic for a lot of followers, Ashanti clearly hadn’t forgotten the opposite thriller visitor from that night.

Nelly, clearly caught off guard, laughed and tried to dodge the subject. “You know what, I don’t even remember that lady. She was a nobody,” he joked. Instead of urgent additional, Ashanti let him squirm—and Nelly finally selected to take a chew of a blazing sizzling wing to keep away from saying extra. To at the present time, the id of the lady from that Verzuz evening stays unknown.

Outside of spicy questions, the couple has been opening up about their relationship in additional heartfelt methods. In a latest interview with Cocoa Butter, Nelly mirrored on Ashanti’s music and revealed which of her songs means essentially the most to him. “‘Rain on Me’ was at a different time in our relationship,” he mentioned. “We gon’ slide that along and stick with ‘Baby.’ […] Some of those records include my brother Ja [Rule]. But ‘Baby’ is all my wife. I’m riding with that one.”

With a actuality present, new music like “This Lil’ Game We Play,” and their plain chemistry, Ashanti and Nelly proceed to serve love, laughs, and a bit of warmth.