A$AP Rocky’s mother wished him to be with Rihanna.
A$AP Rocky and Rihanna have been courting since 2020
Renee Black inspired the 37-year-old rapper to separate with a girlfriend in order that he might strike up a romance with the Diamonds hitmaker – whom Rocky met throughout rehearsals for a efficiency on the 2012 MTV Video Music Awards, however didn’t begin courting her till 2020.
In a teaser for the brand new episode of the NYT Podcast, which drops on Friday (16.01.26), he mentioned: “My mom used to say s*** like, ‘I do know you want this woman that you simply’re with proper now’ – I ain’t going to say no names – ‘however I would like you with Riri.’
“I was like, ‘Mother, why do you retain saying that? Yeah, like that woman do not even, like, need me like that. Like, we cool, Mother. That is simply my pal. Chill.’ [She replied], ‘I am telling you, she actual.’
“And moms know greatest. I am grateful that she was put in my life at the moment as a result of I believe any time previous to that, , I do not suppose I used to be prepared for one thing like that. You understand, I do not suppose she was both.”
The star – actual identify Rakim Mayers – had beforehand dated the likes of mannequin Kendall Jenner, 30, and singers Rita Ora, 35, and 35 12 months previous Iggy Azalea.
However he gushed that 37 12 months previous Rihanna – who reportedly dated stars, together with rappers Drake, 39, and Travis Scott, 34, in addition to 51-year-old actor Leonardo DiCaprio – is the “very particular girl”.
Rocky added: “It is identical to we have been on the identical web page. Born the identical 12 months. My dad is from her nation. My household, after I return, I get to see either side of my household. It is so many similarities, it is simply humorous.
“We giggle about it loads. She was at all times my boo, what I am saying? Like I at all times f*** along with her.”
Rocky and Rhianna – who’ve turn into one in every of music’s largest energy {couples} – are usually not married, though he fuelled hypothesis that the pair might already have gotten hitched as he referred to himself as a “loving husband” throughout an October 2025 interview with The Good Journal.
The Reward the Lord rapper – who has sons RZA, three, Riot, two, and daughter Rocki, 4 months, with the Umbrella singer – mentioned: “Being a father and a associate and a loving husband in my household is what makes me actually, actually completely satisfied.”
And speaking concerning the standing of his relationship with Rihanna, Rocky advised Elle in September that 12 months: “How I am not already a husband? I am nonetheless not gonna affirm it.”
In April 2022, Rihanna admitted she initially deliberate to get married first after which have kids.
The nine-time Grammy award winner – who not too long ago joked about having a fourth little one with Rocky – added to Vogue: “I at all times thought it could be marriage first, then a child, however who the f*** says it must be that manner. I am actually not gonna let that get in the best way of me being a mother.”
