In this segment of The Karamo Show, 18‑year‑old mother Kaliyah confronts Deshawn, the man she claims is the father of her baby. Deshawn vehemently denies paternity, citing physical dissimilarity and a mismatched timeline of their encounter. Kaliyah recounts their casual relationship, her surprise pregnancy seven weeks later, and Deshawn’s brief involvement before disappearing. She describes his presence in the hospital waiting room during delivery, his refusal to sign the birth certificate, and her reliance on her mother and aunt for support. The interview explores Kaliyah’s emotional challenges as a teen mother, her demand for Deshawn to acknowledge responsibility, and her reasoning—based on skin‑color observations—to assert that the child is indeed his. The dialogue oscillates between confrontational accusations and Kaliyah’s affirmation of her support network, highlighting the complexities of teen parenthood, paternity disputes, and familial responsibility.
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This girl Kaliyah got pregnant and tried to say I was the baby daddy, but I know I'm not the father of this baby. I don't look like this baby at all. Plus, the timeline of when we hooked up doesn't even match up, and I know I'm not gonna let no girl pin a baby on me. I ain't paying child support for the rest of my life, and this baby don't even look like my brother.
I gotta ask you, how does it make you feel watching that?
How they lame? They don't make me feel no type of way because I know what it is. They know what it is. It is what it is, and it is what it it is, so.
She said what she said. All right, so what was your relationship with Deshawn?
It was nothing serious. He knew what it was, I knew what it was. We're young, he's young, we was having fun. And when it wasn't for us, we knew it wasn't for us. It wasn't nothing. 7 weeks later, oh my God, you know what I'm saying? Surprise, I'm pregnant, bitch. But guess what? That don't mean that you ain't gotta take care of responsibilities, you get what I'm saying? It's time.
So did he show up for you when you were pregnant?
Not really. He was like, "Oh, okay, we gonna handle it. We're gonna do it together." And then he was there for a little bit, you know what I mean? And then time went by, disappeared.
Was he in the hospital when Kyair was born?
He was in the waiting room.
He was in the waiting room.
Okay.
But he didn't wanna come into the delivery room 'cause fathers are able to do that.
There's a lot of daddies in the world, but there's only a couple fathers that you can, you feel me? So I wasn't really worried about it. I had my mom and my auntie, so I was straight.
Got it. That's your beautiful baby right there?
Yes, he is.
That is a beautiful baby.
Beautiful king.
Did Deshawn, Did he sign the birth certificate?
No.
He did not. Okay, and what was his reasoning for that?
He wasn't in the room. He was in the waiting room.
Mm-hmm, but he could've still came out there and signed it.
He could've. I shouldn't have to hold your hand, bruh. You a grown man. You wanna sign the birth certificate, you gon' be in there.
Got it.
You gon' be in there. Where's it at? Where's the pen? Got it.
How difficult has it been taking on all of this as a teen mother?
Terrible. It's terrible. Yeah. You got this you gotta worry about, you got that, you gotta worry about. And then like I said, I have a wonderful support system. But my mama, my aunt, mainly my mama. That's my rock.
Give it up to them. Give it up to them.
That's my mama, like you said. My mama's my rock, I ain't gonna lie.
So I know we're here because we wanna see and confirm the paternity.
Yes, I wanna hear you are the pappy. I want you to say that to me. You are the pappy. I don't wanna hear nothing else.
You are the pappy.
You are the pappy, yeah.
So, but is there a possibility that your child could be someone else's?
No, and I'm gonna tell you how I know. And this is real good logic right here, okay? You know how when a male get a female pregnant, oh, she a hoe, oh, she done slept with this person, she with this person, she talked to this person. Baby, let me tell you something. As much as we hoes, y'all hoes too. But I'm gonna tell you, but I'm gonna tell you though, what you can't deny, you can't deny facts. Baby, I'm brown. My mama brown, my brother black, black, he real black, okay? We all brown and black, baby. I like brown and black. I made an exception for you, Hope. My son, my son is light. He ain't my color, he ain't my mama color, he most definitely ain't my brother color 'cause he's black.
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