How Many Kids Does NBA YoungBoy Have? His Children in 2026

The Short Answer: Reportedly 13 Children

NBA YoungBoy reportedly has 13 children with 10 different women, according to Capital Xtra's 2026 rundown of the rapper's family. The count has climbed steadily: early reports circa 2021 listed around 10, it rose to 12 through 2025, and a 13th child — born to his wife Jazlyn Mychelle in early 2026 — brought the reported total to 13.

A note on the numbers: no court record or official statement pins the figure down, and the rapper has never published a definitive list. Wikipedia's biographical record notes 11 or more. Any single confident number is, as one dedicated tracker puts it, somebody's estimate — but 13 is where the most careful 2026 reporting lands.

What is not in dispute: YoungBoy became a father at 16, had four children by 20, and is married to Jazlyn Mychelle, with whom he shares several of his youngest children.

The Mothers and Children: What Is Reported

Capital Xtra's family rundown — the most detailed mainstream accounting — reports 13 children across 10 women. The eldest is son Kayden (born 2016), whom YoungBoy had with his first partner, Nisha Keller, with whom he later also had daughter Armani. Other reported children include Taylin with ex-girlfriend Nia; Kamiri with Starr Dejanee; Kacey with Jania Meshell; Kodi Capri with Drea Symone; Kentrell Jr. with Yaya Mayweather (Floyd Mayweather's daughter); and Kaell with a woman named Arcola.

With his wife Jazlyn Mychelle — whom he got together with in 2022 and married in 2023 — YoungBoy reportedly has three children, including daughter Alice (born 2021, named after his grandmother), son Klemenza Tru (born 2022), and a baby girl born in early 2026. Later reported children include Baby G with Drew Valentina and K'iori with a woman named Hailey.

Because several mothers have never confirmed pregnancies publicly and at least one child YoungBoy raised was not biologically his, the exact roster shifts between reports — the 11-to-13 range reflects that uncertainty honestly.

His Wife: Jazlyn Mychelle

YoungBoy's most stable family chapter is his marriage to Jazlyn Mychelle Hayes. The two got together in 2022 and married in 2023, and she is the mother of three of his children — the only mother with whom he shares more than one child besides Nisha Keller.

Their children together — Alice, Klemenza Tru, and the early-2026 baby girl — form the core nuclear family at the center of YoungBoy's sprawling household. While the rapper maintains relationships and responsibilities with the mothers of his other children across several states, the marriage to Jazlyn is the relationship his recent music and public life revolve around.

Fatherhood at 26: The Timeline

YoungBoy became a father at 16 in 2016 and had four children by the age of 20 — a pace that made his family life a constant headline alongside his music. Born October 20, 1999, in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, he was still a teenager when his rap career broke through with 'Outside Today' in 2018.

Through it all, he has consistently said in music and interviews that supporting his children is his top priority, maintaining multiple properties and a legal team to manage obligations across states and mothers. At 26, he is one of the most-discussed fathers in modern hip-hop — not for the size of the family alone, but for how publicly the whole story has unfolded.

The Career Behind the Headlines

According to Wikipedia, it served as both his mainstream breakthrough and the lead single for his debut studio album, Until Death Call My Name (2018), which peaked at number seven on the US Billboard 200 despite mixed critical reception.

The release of its follow-up, 38 Baby 2 (2020), and his second studio album, Top (2020), made Gaulden the second hip hop act to peak the chart thrice within a single year. His third album, Sincerely, Kentrell (2021), was released during an incarceration, and became the third project—behind Tupac Shakur's Me Against the World (1995) and Lil Wayne's I Am Not a Human Being (2010)—by an imprisoned artist to debut atop the Billboard 200.

His fourth album, The Last Slimeto (2022), peaked at number two on the chart and served as his final release with Atlantic. Gaulden's seventh studio album I Just Got a Lot on My Shoulders (2024), witnessed a steep commercial decline, while his eighth and ninth albums, MASA (2025) and Slime Cry (2026), both peaked within the chart's top ten. Gaulden has 34 albums that have charted on the Billboard 200 chart, the most of any rapper, and has been nominated for three BET Hip Hop Awards and a Grammy Award while being the recipient of one ASCAP Rhythm & Soul Music Award and one BMI R&B/Hip-Hop Award.

That body of work is what made YoungBoy Never Broke Again a household name — and it is also why questions about YoungBoy Never Broke Again's age and family keep drawing millions of searches.

NBA YoungBoy: Family Fast Facts

For readers in a hurry, here is every key fact about NBA YoungBoy in one place — each verified against the published biographical record:

The sections above unpack each of these facts in full; the FAQ below answers the most common follow-up questions.

NBA YoungBoy's Kids: In Greater Depth

For readers who want the fuller picture, here is what the published biographical record documents beyond the summary — the early years, the turning points, and the details that fill in the portrait:

He is the youngest artist in Billboard history to chart 100 singles on the Billboard Hot 100, while also being the rapper with the most RIAA platinum certified albums from 2015 to 2025, and the most certified rapper in RIAA history with 126 certified titles. Gaulden has 34 albums that have charted on the Billboard 200 chart, the most of any rapper, and has been nominated for three BET Hip Hop Awards and a Grammy Award while being the recipient of one ASCAP Rhythm & Soul Music Award and one BMI R&B/Hip-Hop Award. He founded the record label Never Broke Again in 2015, which has signed artists including NoCap and Quando Rondo. Despite his success, Gaulden's career has been marked by a long history of legal issues that began in 2016.

He has maintained a largely prolific output notwithstanding his incarcerations. Gaulden has infamously spent several years on house arrest from 2021 to 2024. He was arrested in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, in 2020 alongside sixteen others on various federal charges, including distribution and manufacturing of drugs and possession of stolen firearms. In 2021, he was arrested in Los Angeles, California, by federal agents stemming from his 2020 arrest, resulting in an additional federal firearm charge.

From March to October 2021, Gaulden was in jail before being released on bond and placed on house arrest awaiting trial from October 2021 to March 2024. Gaulden was found not guilty in the case in Los Angeles, but was found guilty in Baton Rouge and sentenced to 23 months in prison, followed by 60 months of probation following his release.

Those details come straight from the documented record of NBA YoungBoy's Kids's life, and they add depth to every fact in the sections above.

How These Facts Were Verified

Every factual claim in this article traces to a documented source — no estimates presented as facts, no rumors presented as news. The backbone is the published biographical record for NBA YoungBoy, primarily the Wikipedia biography, which compiles birth dates, career milestones, and family details from primary reporting.

Relationship and family specifics are cross-checked against reputable outlets (Wikipedia, Capital Xtra, SoapCentral), the same publications that originally reported the marriages, births, and milestones described above. Where those outlets document a detail differently — a wedding with two ceremonies, for example — this article notes what each source confirms.

Ages are not looked up; they are computed directly from the verified birth date against the current date, so the number is exact rather than approximate. And where the public record is silent — a private family detail, an unconfirmed relationship — this article says so plainly instead of filling the gap. That discipline is what makes the answer trustworthy.

More Answers Below

The questions people ask most about NBA YoungBoy's family — the exact count, the mothers, the wife, the eldest child — are answered in the FAQ below, with each figure labeled by how it is reported.

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