Rihanna and ASAP Rocky: back on their beautiful love story

From friendship to love, there is only one step. And it’s not Rihanna and ASAP Rocky who will say the opposite. After having been friends for many years, the two American artists are now living a beautiful love story.

After being associated with singer Chris Brown, baseball player Matt Kemp, rapper Drake and Saudi heir Hassan Jameel, Rihanna succumbed to the charm of rapper ASAP Rocky, with whom she had recorded the remix of the song Cockiness (Love It). A tube that the two artists performed on the stage of the MTV Video Music Awards in 2012. Their complicity on the stage had also fueled rumors of a possible love affair between them. But, at that time, the interpreter of Work had again succumbed to the charms of her ex Chris Brown. If Rihanna and ASAP Rocky managed to maintain a friendship for ten years, everything changed when the singer broke up with her companion Hassan Jameel in January 2020.

From a longtime friendship to a beautiful love story

After months of rumor, ASAP Rocky has finally confirmed his romance with Rihanna in the spring of 2021 in the pages of the magazine GQ, which he was on the cover of. “I think when you know, you know. It’s the right one. She is worth more than millions of other women“, he confided about the one he described as the woman of his life. The American rapper had also poured out his trip to Barbados, the country of birth of his companion. “It was like going back to basics. It was crazy. I always imagined what it would have been like for my father before he came to America. And I got to visit those places, and believe it or not, there was something nostalgic about it. It was foreign, but familiar“. If the lovebirds live their love story far from the media, they nevertheless formalized the arrival of their first child on social networks in January 2022. It was on her Instagram account that Rihanna confirmed the good news. On images taken by photographer Miles Diggs, the singer, dressed in a long pink down jacket, unveiled her adorable baby bump, in the streets of Harlem.

A happy family

After having formalized the arrival of her first child, Rihanna has multiplied pregnancy looks more incredible than each other. Low-waisted jeans, crop tops, transparent dresses… The 35-year-old artist has not gone unnoticed at any of her appearances. On May 13, 2022, the singer gave birth to a son, RZA Athelston Mayers. A first name in homage to the rapper and producer RZA, founding member of the group Wu-Tang Clan. After stepping away from show business to take care of her newborn baby, Rihanna made her big comeback by signing the film’s soundtrack Black Panther : Wakanda Forever and announcing her participation in the Super Bowl 2023. On February 12, ASAP Rocky’s companion created a surprise during halftime of the sporting event by revealing her plump belly. A representative for the couple later confirmed to the media People, Variety et The Hollywood Reporter that Rihanna and ASAP Rocky were indeed expecting their second child.

Article written in collaboration with 6Médias