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Ja Rule is going to be a grandpa!
The rapper and actor, 49, announced the exciting news that his daughter, Brittney Atkins, 30, is pregnant and expecting her first baby with husband Tevin Aitken during his appearance on the Sherri show.
“I’m about to be a grandfather,” he said, jokingly adding, “That don’t even sound right.”
When host Sherri Shepherd asked him how he found out the happy news, the soon-to-be grandfather recalled the “very cute” way his daughter broke the news to him.
“It was very cute the way she did it. She put the sonogram in a box and it was like a card that said you’re now grandma and grandfather, and the sonogram was in the thing and ” he explained.
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The Fast and the Furious star went on to share more about the moment.
“And the sonogram was in the thing and she said, ‘I got a gift for you guys.’ And we thought it was a real gift,” he said, quickly adding that the news was a gift, but not what they expected. “So, we go into the room … and we open it up and she got the camera on.”
“You can see my expression, see me in wifey’s expression,” he added. “And it was it was an amazing moment.”
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The dad of three already has the name his grandchild will call him picked out.
“I think I’m going to steal my name from the notorious B.I.G. Yeah. I love it when they call me Big Poppa,” he said laughing.
After the announcement, daytime talk show host Sherri Shepherd gifted him a custom-made cardigan with the words “Big Poppa” written on it.
“I love it,” he said excitedly. “Big Poppa is in the building.”
