Rihanna and A$AP Rocky have a beautiful family of four that could only grow in the years to come. However, none of this might have happened if they hadn't are performed together on MTV in 2012 Video Music Awards.
RiRi sat down with her former stylist and Interview Editor-in-Chief Mel Ottenberg for a magazine cover that arrived on Tuesday (April 9). During their conversation, Rihanna reflected on her performance of “Cockiness (Love It)” with A$AP Rocky at the VMAs and recalled him grabbing her butt while on stage.
“He grabbed my a–… So when he grabbed my a– that night, everybody thought he was going to… My team was worried that I wanted to have his head with the king's mantle,” she said, recalling that her team she was nervous she was ready to wipe him off the face of the earth.
However, Rihanna was not even angry, and her inner circle realized at that moment that she might have fallen in love with the rapper.
“But I was like, 'Oh, no.' That's why everyone was like, “Oh my God. She loves it,” the Fenty mogul added.
Rihanna would go on to star in the Virgil Abloh-directed video for Rocky's 'Fashion Killa' struck in 2013. But by the end of 2019 the two musicians will reconnect with an eye to building a future together as a couple.
“We saw fashion the same way. We saw the same creative,” he explained. “We ended up in the same circles a lot. And after that, when we grew up, we ended up supporting each other's brands and products and being creative all the time. I'd wear his shit, he'd show up at my launches.”
Rihanna continued: “We've known each other for a long time. I have seen him in relationships. He has seen me in relationships. We have seen each other outside of relationships. We knew what we could do and what trouble we could bring into each other's lives. We can make or break each other's hearts. And so, we started going out very carefully.”
Their relationship was highlighted quite a bit with the quarantines brought with it by the COVID-19 pandemic. Rihanna gave birth to their first child, RZA, in May 2022, and the little boy's brother, Riot Rose Mayers, was born in August.
Look at Rihanna Interview cover below:
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