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Rihanna and A$AP Rocky had been friends for over a decade before they moved on to a romantic relationship. The couple was reported to be dating in November 2020 after they were spotted out together. In May 2022, she and Rocky welcomed their first child, RZA Athelston. Her second child, Riot Rose Mayers, was born in August 2023.
Rihanna was previously in relationships with singer Chris Brown and rapper Drake. Her relationship with Brown ended in a high-profile domestic violence case in 2009. Before her relationship with Rocky, she ended a three-year romance with Saudi businessman Hassan Jameel.
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RihannaandA$AP Rockystarted their relationship in 2020 with no active plans of starting a family. That was until Riri became pregnant with their first child. Rihanna once toldVoguethat she thought they would get married first before having kids. She shared with the outlet:
I always thought it would be marriage first, then a baby, but who the f**k says it has to be that way. I’m certainly not gonna let that get in the way of me being a mom.
Carrying her first child, Rihanna became a fashion icon for pregnant mothers. She toldPeoplethat it was both fun and challenging to play with fashion while pregnant. She shared about her maternity fashion styles,“Some days you just feel like, ‘Ugh, I just want to lay here on this couch all day.’ But when you put on a little face and a little lipstick, you transform.”
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The couple welcomed RZA Athelston in May 2022. Nine months later, she posed with little RZA and Rocky for the cover ofBritish Vogue. In the interview with the outlet, Rihanna spoke about her motherhood, sharing,“It’s everything. You really don’t remember life before, that’s the craziest thing ever.”
RZA was named after American rapper RZA, real name Robert Fitzgerald Diggs, who is the leader of the Wu-Tang Clan. She also shared with British Vogue that the birth of RZA brought her and Rocky closer to each other. She shared:
We’re best friends with a baby. We have to be on the same page, but we’ve always kind of had that in our relationship. Everything changes when you have a baby but I wouldn’t say it’s done anything but made us closer.
When Rihanna appeared for theSuper Bowl halftime show performancein 2023, she revealed her second pregnancy. Her red bodysuit revealing the baby bump made headlines at the time. Riot Rose Mayers was born in August 2023. The family of four posed for a series of cute pictures featuring a 16-month-old RZA and a newborn Riot Rose (via People).
Rihanna and A$AP Rocky’s Relationship: How Did They Meet?
Rihanna and A$AP Rocky were colleagues-turned-friends after the latter joined RiRi’sDiamond Tourin 2013. She later appeared in Rocky’s music videoFashion Killain the same year. However, their romantic relationship didn’t start until 2020. In January 2020, shortly after Rihanna’s split with Hassan Jameel, she attended the Yams Day Benefit Concert with Rocky (via ET).
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Conflicting reports about their relationship emerged at the time. A source confirmed they were dating and toldThe Sun,“They’re really enjoying each other’s company and taking things easy as it’s still early days.”However, another source disputed the romance rumors and shared withE! News,“She wants to be single and isn’t going to jump into something. She’s hanging out with A$AP Rocky, but she is not dating him.”
In July, Rihanna’s Fenty Skin dropped an ad featuring her with Rocky and other artists like Lil Nas X, Tommy Genesis, and Halima Aden (via Instagram).Page Sixreported in November that they were spotted out with a group of friends beforePeopleconfirmed they were officially dating.
TheWe Found Lovesinger herself gave an account of how their relationship blossomed during an interview withInterview Magazinein April 2024. Rihanna recalled meeting Rocky at the VMAs in 2012. It wasnot the first meeting story that fans would’ve expected. She shared:
He grabbed my *ss! So that was the day that we thought we met. At rehearsal, so it was, like, manager to manager, client to client. So when he grabbed my ass that night, everybody thought I was about to—my team was worried that I wanted to have his head on a fucking mantle. But I was like, ‘Ah, nah.’ That’s why everybody was like, ‘Oh my god. She likes him.’
She clarified that they were not dating when they appeared together in the music video the next year. She shared,“Hell no! He asked me to be in a video. Virgil [Abloh] shot that.”However, they had some shared interests. She shared that they had similar tastes in both fashion and creative. She added that Rocky was in a lot of the same circles as she was.
They were supportive of each other long before they actually connected with each other romantically. Rihanna shared,“We ended up supporting each other’s brands and products and creative all the time. […] But it wasn’t until the end of 2019 [that things changed].”She further shared that they both had started dating with a lot of caution. She shared:
We’ve known each other for a long time. I’ve seen him in relationships. He’s seen me in relationships. We’ve seen each other outside of relationships. We knew what we’re capable of, and the trouble that we could bring to each other’s lives. We can make or break each other’s hearts. And so, we started dating with a lot of caution.
They did not go into their relationship with a lot of expectations. TheLove on the Brainsinger compared their initial stages of the relationship with a flower, sharing that it could’ve either blossomed or died. When the world was locked down during the COVID pandemic, it did a great favor to their relationship.
She shared,“And had it not been for COVID, we would’ve taken a lot more time to get comfortable with each other.”It turns out that the flower did blossom in her case.
Rihanna Talks About Baby No. 3 And Maybe More!
During the interview with Mel Ottenberg for Interview Magazine, Rihanna was asked about how many more kids she would like to have. In her answer, she shared hints that she and A$AP Rocky have plans to expand their family. She shared,“As many as God wants me to have.”
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Further, she shared her desire to have a baby girl after having two boys. But she shared that she wouldn’t be upset if it was another boy. Rihanna shared about her further plans for kids,“I would go for more than two. I would try for my girl. But of course if it’s another boy, it’s another boy.”
After becoming a father for the first time, Rocky shared withDazedmagazine about his hopes as a new father. He shared that he will remind his children to“never lose their imagination.”He further added that he wanted to“raise open-minded children”and“not people who discriminate.”
In another interview withBillboardmore recently, he shared that he wanted his sons to have normal childhoods. He shared,“They still human. They human beings,”while showing a video of RZA walking and playing on the street.
Most recently, they lit up the red carpet at the UK Fashion Awards (via BBC). The power couple is making their presence known across the fashion world.
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