After welcoming two baby girls, Kane Brown and his wife, Katelyn, are having some fun browsing a fresh list of names as they get ready to welcome their first son later this year.

During his recent appearance on Audacy’s Superstar Power Hour with Katie Neal, Kane shared he and Katelyn have narrowed it down to four names, however, his original favorite isn’t on that list.

“We wanted to name him Knight because it starts with a K,” Brown said, admitting the baby will have the initials KB like all their other family members; Kane, Katelyn, Kingsley, and Kodi. “But, it’s just the N. We’d have King and then Knight — for Knight in shining armor — but we need the K [sound]” he said, pronouncing the letter.

Appears the couple hasn’t had too hard of a time moving past the name Knight as they already have a new favorite which they are hoping gets family approval before the baby boy arrives. “We have like four that we’re choosing from. There’s one that I would say is our number one name, but Kate’s [Katelyn’s] brother is not in love with it, so it’s really really [bothering] her…. I don’t know, maybe we will, maybe we won’t go with it.”

While he anxiously awaits the arrival (and we all anxiously await the name), Brown is keeping busy as he climbs the charts with his current single, “I Can Feel It,” a stadium tour and making a new album… and even with all that, Brown says he still desires to do more.

“I’m like, so competitive, I would definitely put me at the top of the list of the most competitive people in the genre,” Kane said, admitting he is always keeping an eye on his peers to make sure he is keeping up. “Like, when I was watching the Super Bowl — just to see some of the artists on Super Bowl commercials and things like that — and I’m sitting at the bar watching I’m like, ‘Man I could be doing something else.’ Sometimes it makes me feel like I’m being lazy.”

Admitting he’s constantly battling thoughts of “never enough” when it comes to his career, Brown shared he received some much-needed clarity from actor and wrestler, John Cena, during a conversation that felt like therapy.

“I had a therapy session with John Cena the other day,” Brown said. “Not really, but I was in the car with him and he was asking me questions — he’s actually a great interviewer — he asked me a lot of questions that I’ve never answered [before]. When I would give the answer, he would kinda tell me how he saw it.”

One of those questions got Brown to open up about his struggles with feeling like he’s “less hungry” than he was in the early days when he had to brainstorm, plan and execute every move surrounding his music in the search for success.

“I have a lot of extra time now, compared to my Facebook days where I had to think about what I was going to sing, time it out, and when I would do it, I would have to look at my social media and analyze and go over the analytics and everything like that. Now, sometimes it makes me feel like I’m not as hungry because I’m not doing as much,” Brown admitted before sharing that a simple statement by Cena made him see things differently.

“He’s like, ‘You have other people do those jobs now,’” Brown said of Cena’s response, which made him recognize his success has grown too large for him to handle on his own.

“It’s cool to see the growth,” Brown said of the times he does sit to reflect on how far he’s come. “I never really sit back and look at it… I’m always a front-lookin’ person, I never look back really, [but] I’ll get a random day where I sit and think about all the things that we’ve done. It’s cool.”

Hear more from Kane about his accomplishments, tour, excitement for baby #3, and forthcoming duets with his wife, Katelyn, by checking out his conversation on the Superstar Power Hour with Katie Neal above.

Words by Monica Rivera Interview by Katie Neal