When Sexyy Red welcomed her son Chuckie, or Sexyy Junior, as she sometimes calls him, she was around 22 and in relationship with her school boyfriend, whose name is also Chuckie. But he wasn’t actively in his son’s life for very long before he was sent to jail. “It’s a lot for me,” Red told Rolling Stone in July 2023. “That’s my high school sweetheart. Free him. That’s my dog. I hate being on this journey without him.”
The timeline of Red’s relationship with Chuckie isn’t super clear, but they had their ups and downs. In fact, Red got into rapping amid drama with Chuckie. When she found out her boyfriend was cheating on her, she turned to songwriting for some emotional release. It turns out that Chuckie was impressed by her previously untapped talent. “He was like, ‘Dang, you straight know how to rap. You straight snap,'” she told Complex in May 2023.
And instead of being embarrassed that Red was putting their business out there, Chuckie encouraged their peers to have a listen. “Then one day I was just like, ‘Well I’m going to go record the song then, since he said I’m snapping,'” she said. Red and Chuckie are still close. In June, she uploaded throwback photos to Instagram from when she was pregnant that featured Chuckie with a heart emoji covering his face. “HAPPY FATHERS DAY TO MY BFF,” she captioned the post. “Free my baby daddy.”
