Whereas masking Harper’s BAZAAR, the Fenty Magnificence founder shares candy particulars about her and Rocky’s sons RZA, 2, and Riot, 18 months, and divulges which of her superstar buddies got here up together with her youngest’s identify.
Rihanna is praising her companion A$AP Rocky’s position as a father.
In Harper’s BAZAAR’s March 2025 Legacy Concern cowl story, the singer — who stuns on the quilt of the journal — opened up about elevating sons RZA, 2, and Riot, 18, months with the rapper, sharing that the “biggest factor” about Rocky “is seeing him as a dad.”
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“His pureness. His appeal,” Rihanna mentioned, earlier than jokingly including, “I am aggravated as a result of my sons generally simply reside for him greater than they reside for me. And I am like, ‘Do you know who cooked you? Are you aware who pushed you out?”
“And so they love him, however once I see it, oh, it is the most effective,” she mentioned.
The Fenty Magnificence founder went on to share particulars about her relationship with Rocky, whom she started relationship in late 2019 after being associates for years. Whereas Rihanna, 37, and Rocky, 36, are well-known, she mentioned they do not let that cease them from spending time collectively in public.
“We wish to eat with individuals. We like to buy with individuals. We wish to stroll the streets with individuals,” she advised the journal. “I do not like a personal room. I haven’t got them shut down shops. I do not just like the Rapunzel life. It is very isolating. It is very lonely. And what am I defending myself from? I am truly permitting individuals to dictate the theft of the life that I may truly be residing.”
Rihanna added that occurring dates and having enjoyable collectively as any regular non-celebrity couple is essential for each of them — together with going out to bars, eating places, arcades, karaoke, and extra.
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“That is an enormous factor for us and truly a extremely massive factor for him,” she mentioned. “He at all times jogs my memory, regardless of how exhausting every little thing is that we’re coping with in our life, in our careers and as mother and father, he is like, ‘Bear in mind once we have been associates? Bear in mind once we simply used to have enjoyable as associates?'”
Rihanna and Rocky confirmed their relationship in Could 2021. The pair welcomed RZA in Could 2022, earlier than RiRi stunned the world together with her second being pregnant on the Tremendous Bowl in February 2023. She gave start to her and Rocky’s second son later that August.
Throughout her interview with Harper’s BAZAAR, the Savage X Fenty founder shared candy particulars about her and Rocky’s sons.
“RZA is simply an empath,” Rihanna mentioned. “He is so magical. He loves music. He loves melody. He loves books. He loves water. Tub time, swimming, pool, seashore, something.”
“And Riot, he is simply hilarious. When he wakes up, he begins to squeal, scream,” she added. “Not in a crying means. He simply desires to sing. And I am like, ‘Okay, right here we go!’ He is my alarm within the morning! He is not taking no for a solution from anybody. I do not know the place he got here from, dude.”
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Rihanna revealed that she and Rocky’s longtime pal and collaborator, Pharrell, truly named Riot.
“He gave us this identify considering it was going to be a woman, as a result of he had seen one thing on-line,” she shared. “Pharrell could be very deep. He is not floor. He won’t ever say something and simply go away it there with a full cease. He can have the complete historical past: the vitality, the time, the month that it’s.”
Finally, Rihanna mentioned her youngsters stay her prime precedence, however admitted that she nonetheless typically struggles to stability motherhood and her profession.
“Each determination I make revolves round them, however every little thing that I try this I like robs me from them,” she advised Harper’s BAZAAR. “So I’ve a bizarre resentment with the issues that I like. You nearly really feel like one thing is at all times struggling so that you can present up someplace. And even once you present up there, it isn’t one hundred pc as a result of there’s one thing else on the wheel.”
“It is truly given me much more self-guilt. I do not like letting individuals down, however I additionally know that the majority of that’s me letting myself down, which implies one thing has to vary, however every little thing is on the wheel always,” she continued. “I’ve to maintain reminding myself that I requested for this, I like this. I attempt to determine a stability in order that I can really feel fulfilled once I present as much as one thing, so I can really feel I haven’t got any guilt.”
See extra in Rihanna’s full profile, right here.
