Coi Leray announced to the world that she is expecting her first child with rapper Trippie Redd, but her famous father, Benzino, revealed that he found out about her pregnancy at the same time as the rest of the world.
“I’m gonna be a grandfather. I just found out when everybody else found out,” he said on the We In Miami podcast. “It’s gonna grow her up. I hope it does, because she’ll finally get to know what it is to be a parent. She’ll get to see firsthand what I was going through.”
Coi Leray and her father have fallen out several times, but the rapper shared that the final straw for her was her father’s defense of singer R. Kelly, who is currently serving time in prison for heinous offenses against women and young girls.
After his remarks about the Chicago crooner, Coi hopped on X, formerly Twitter, to distance herself from Benzino.
“I want everybody to know I want nothing to do with anything my father has going on,” Coi wrote at the time “I haven’t spoken to him in over a year and I don’t condone or respect any of them interviews he got going on. I don’t respect his decisions and I really want nothing to do with him please dont even think of me when you see him.”
Benzino insists he will be a part of his grandchild’s life.
“Believe me, that baby gonna know its granddad,” Benzino continued. “It’s important for me to get my message to that baby regardless of whatever we going through. That ain’t got nothing to do with the grandbaby. And like I said, she gonna want him to have that MVP, those morals, values, and principles, and that’s gonna be his granddad. And you know Trippie’s pops, and his mom.”
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