This previous weekend, YBN Almighty Jay — a member the gamer crew-turned-rap collective YBN — revealed a secret he’d been hiding. It seems the 19-year-old rapper is a father.
As Jay defined, he’s been grappling with inform his followers about his son for months.
“That is one thing I needed to face,” he stated. “It’s not one thing I may simply conceal. It’s one thing that needed to come to gentle in the end.”
Jay wished to be the one to announce his son to the world as an alternative the information popping out one other method.
The YBN member’s determination might have been affected by Drake, whose once-secret fatherhood was uncovered to the general public by Pusha T a diss observe. Drizzy took house the “You Have been Hiding A Little one Award” in HipHopDX’s annual Turkey Awards because of the awkward state of affairs.
Although Jay’s preliminary apprehension to share the information stemmed from the truth that he was solely 18 (on the time) and didn’t know be a father, he appears to now be embracing the function.
“I Don’t Wanna Maintain You A Secret Anymore,” he wrote in an Instagram publish about his son. “That Makes Me Much less A Man. I Love You Son, Endlessly & Ever.”