Ne-Yo is adding a new role to his already extensive résumé. The R&B crooner has become a father for the first time. His girlfriend, Soul Men actress Monyetta Shaw, gave birth Friday night to a baby girl.

Ace dancehall deejay Bounty Killer, is currently behind bars for allegedly assaulting his girlfriend, but according to a recent report in the Jamaica Observer’s Chat magazine, the girlfriend (whose name is Kadeem Baker) now wants to drop the charges, because it was the first time in their three-year relationship that he had ever been violent, and “this thing has blown way out of proportion …“.