Now, Ashanti's father Ken-Kaide Thomas Douglas has revealed that Nelly asked him for his daughter's hand in marriage before popping the question. "We had a discussion about him wanting to marry her.

The Minister of Interior-designate and Member of Parliament for the Asawase Constituency in the Ashanti Region, ...

But we all a victim to that." Kareem is Ashanti's first child and Nelly's fifth. He previously welcomed daughter Chanelle in 1994 and son Cornell in 1999 with ex-girlfriend Channetta Valentine.