Joey Basa$$ and Serayah have announced that their first child together will be a baby boy
The couple met through mutual friends in 2021, and went public with their romance in 2023
Joey is also a father to a seven-year-old daughter from a previous relationship
Joey Bada$$ and Serayah have confirmed that they are having a baby boy!
In an interview with Essence published Thursday, May 22, Serayah, 29, opened up about her first pregnancy. “I’m great, honestly. At the finish line,” she said.
The singer and actress also recalled knowing something was different about her body, after she experienced food aversions early in her pregnancy.
“I was on set, and they brought fried chicken for the cast and crew, and I just was repulsed by the smell,” she remembered.
Shareif Ziyadat/Getty
Joey Bada$$ and Serayah Pack in September 2023
Serayah continued, “I remember thinking, I know that’s chicken and I can smell it coming from the hallway. And I just was like, that smells so gross. But I didn’t understand: Why do I feel like this stinks?”
The couple met through mutual friends in 2021. Joey, 30, told the outlet, “I saw her and I remember thinking to myself like, ‘Wow, I’ve never seen a woman so beautiful.’ “
The rapper and actor continued, “She was just strikingly gorgeous, and her aura was just kind of radiating.”
Serayah then described her first impression of Joey, saying that he was “the most mysterious person I’ve ever met, but also very magnetizing and something about him also spoke loudly without speaking at all.”
The Empire alum and the Mr. Robot star took another year to reconnect, and ultimately went public with their romance in 2023, per Vibe.
Joey, who is a father to a seven-year-old daughter from a previous relationship, publicly stated that he was polyamorous in 2021, per Essence. He told the outlet that his relationship with Serayah altered his outlook on monogamy. “That was where I was at in my life at the time.”
Never miss a story — sign up for PEOPLE’s free daily newsletter to stay up-to-date on the best of what PEOPLE has to offer, from celebrity news to compelling human interest stories.
“That was where I was at in my life at the time,” he said. “I was very much living a lifestyle of a bachelor and it just aligned with what I was doing. But I met Ray, I bought a home, and it just changed my perspective. It definitely shifted, and the dynamic that I wanted changed. So I’m very much monogamous now, and I don’t discourage or disagree with anybody going after polyamory or whatever if that’s what you want to do. But this is where I’m at now and this is where I feel secure.”
Joey currently stars in the titular role in the Starz crime drama Power Book III: Raising Kanan.
Read the original article on People
