Waka Flocka Shares He's Expecting a Baby Boy and Reveals His Name
Waka Flocka Shares He's Expecting a Baby Boy and Reveals His Name
Hannah SacksMon, June 1, 2026 at 5:07 PM UTC
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Waka Flocka Flame attends ComplexCon 2025 at the Las Vegas Convention Center on October 26, 2025 in Las Vegas, Nevada.
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Waka Flocka shared the news on Instagram, revealing his first biological child will be named Juaquin Jr.
The rapper previously helped raise his stepdaughter Charlie, 20, during his marriage to Tammy Rivera
Waka and Tammy divorced in 2022 but maintain a close friendship, with Rivera reflecting on their bond last year
Waka Flocka is going to be a dad!
The rapper, 40, shared on Instagram on Sunday, May 31, that he is expecting his first biological baby. Waka, whose real name is Juaquin Malphurs, also revealed that his baby-to-be is a boy and shared his name — Juaquin Jr.
"Just waiting for you to come home Jr.," he wrote in his caption. "Best gift a man could ever ask for 🤲🏽👨🏽🍼 I walked 40yrs on earth!!"
Waka's photo showed a wooden J which featured his son's name, Juaquin Jr., engraved on the bottom.
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Although this is Waka's first biological child, the rapper helped raise his stepdaughter, Charlie, 20, alongside his ex-wife Tammy Rivera. The two divorced in 2022.
During the 2021 season finale of his reality TV show Waka & Tammy: What the Flocka, Rivera's daughter Charlie asked Waka to officially adopt her.
Tammy Rivera and Waka Flocka Flame attend the 2019 BET Social Awards at Tyler Perry Studio on March 3, 2019 in Atlanta, Georgia.
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Last year, while appearing on the Reality with the King podcast, Rivera reflected on her marriage to Waka and shared that although they are no longer together, the two have a lasting friendship.
"We were such friends. That was my homie. We kick s--t all the time. Like that was my friend, so even when the relationship...of course I'm human, so I hurt and things of that sort," said Rivera during the December podcast episode. "He was used to a lifestyle before me."
"So when we got together, he was fighting his own demons of, 'I want to be a family man. I got a good woman. I got Charlie and this going on. But I still out here in these streets,' " she continued. "A lot of people start making excuses for him, but he was young and he was trying to figure it out, too."
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