Nelly Said Dating Ashanti Was Like A ‘Test Drive’

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

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

“It’s about the good outweighing the bad,” Nelly said.  “What you thought mattered a lot, once you go through other scenarios, you realize that’s not really as big of a deal as you thought it would be.”

“Or you get something that you thought you was missing, and it still doesn’t compensate or fill a void, and you’re like, ‘Damn, I thought that would mean more,’ but that doesn’t. It’s just growth,” he added.

In 2003, Nelly and Ashantly broke up 10 years later. After being separated for another decade but they rekindled their love in September 2023. Three months later, they married in a private ceremony.  Last July, Nelly and Ashanti also welcomed their first child together, Kareem Kenkaide Haynes, a baby boy.

“Everybody don’t get a chance to, if you could say, take a test drive,” Nelly continued. “It’s like when people say, ‘You should always test drive a car before you buy it.’ I hate to minimize that because this is real life, so you don’t want it to feel like that.”

“We had a chance to test drive a relationship to understand that, ‘Yo, that car was the best thing I had riding around that thing, man. Fire it back up, baby,” he said.

In June, the power couple debuted their Peacock reality show reality television show, We Belong Together, where they share their journey back to love.

Along with their reality show, Nelly released “Spin the Block” which is inspired by his love for Ashanti.

Nelly raped, “When we said goodbye / Guess it wasn’t what we really meant / ‘Cause mile aftеr mile / I keep passing up places we been / And wе kicked up some dust and got stuck in some mud / But we got back to us in the end / Yeah that look in your eyes looks like this old truck / Like we spinnin’ the block today.”