Soulja Boy is set to become a father for the first time. The Crank That (Soulja Boy) rapper - whose given name is DeAndre Cortez Way - and his hairstylist partner Jackilyn Martinez found out that they are having a baby boy during a gender-reveal party at the weekend.

Soulja captioned a clip from the moment they found out the sex of the unborn tot: "It's a boy!!?"

Jackilyn let off a blue cannon, filled with blue smoke and confetti in the air, signalling the gender, and quipped that she was "so nervous" and "afraid" that her breast would be exposed as it went off.

She wrote underneath the video in her own post: "Part 2 gender reveal I was so nervous and afraid my t***y was gonna fall out it turned out beautiful tho not baby girl @darbzdedicated falling out when it was a boy (sic)."

The 31-year-old hip-hop star previously expressed his desire to have a son.

He said: "I have everything I want in life except for a son.

"God please bless me I've been patient."