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‘Lil Doll’: Fans’ Hearts Continue to Melt Over Safaree Samuels and Erica Mena’s Adorable Baby Girl

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Safaree Samuels is already teaching his baby girl Safire the art of the drip.

The 39-year-old rapper and reality star shared a photo of himself and his adorable 9-month-old rocking matching daddy-daughter fur coats while on the set of his latest music video for single “Credit.”

“Behind the scenes Credit video! She’s like ‘Daddy hurry up pls this thing is heavy’ click link in bio STRAIIIITTTTTT fur 🧥 @danielsleather@messiahstylist,” he captioned the pic.

Safaree Samuels and baby Safire. (Photo: safaree/Instagram)

After deliberately keeping her face away from the public since her Feb. 2 birth, Samuels and wife Erica Mena debuted the first moving images of their beautiful baby in dad’s music video after teasing it on Oct. 30 ahead of its Nov. 6 release.

“Safaree x Safire ! GIRL DAD ♥️ I wasn’t hiding you from the world I was hiding the world from you,” he captioned an still image of the two together on Nov. 6, the same day the video dropped. “Thank you for being in my video and not charging me 🤣🤣 #Ineedmycredit for this ‼️”

The couple appear to be moving forward after their brief and very public tiff on social media last week, during which Safaree announced that he was a “bachelor” and tagged TV show “Divorce Court” in his image. Mena responded by undercutting Safire’s music video debut, posting their daughter’s first public picture on her page on Nov. 4 instead. Safaree has since made a public apology for his remarks and posted proof that they have indeed made up.

Although they haven’t given any insight into why they felt now was the right time to stop hiding the world from her, their fans are glad they did and still can’t get over how gorgeous baby Safire is, leaving more than 2,500 gushing over the Samuels’ little “doll.”

“She looks like a porcelain doll. Absolutely beautiful!!💛💚🖤,” exclaimed a fan.

“😍😍omg her Lil doll self. So adorable,” agreed a second.

“Wow she is so perfect 😍,” a third remarked.

“SWAGGED ALL THE WAY OUT,” called out a fourth.

“Awwwww she’s a beauty ❤️❤️ continued blessings to you guys,” wrote a fifth.

Safaree and Erica wed in 2019, and Safire is the couples’ first child together. Mena is also mother to 13-year-old son King Conde, whose father is music video director and Terror Squad member Raul Conde.

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