A$AP Rocky at all times knew Rihanna was particular, and it seems he wasn’t the one one. Throughout a current look on the New York Occasions’ “Popcast,” the “Highest 2 Lowest” star revealed that his mother was rooting for him and Rihanna’s relationship, lengthy earlier than he even thought it may very well be a chance.
“My mom used to say s—t, like, ‘I do know you want this lady that you simply’re with proper now, however I need you with Riri,” he recalled. “And it was like ‘Mother, why do you retain saying this? That lady don’t even like me like that. We cool, ma. That’s simply my pal.’”
To which he remembers his mom saying: “I’m telling you, she’s actual.”
Rocky and Rihanna’s connection dates again to 2012, when the 2 collaborated on her tune “Cockiness.” Performing collectively throughout that yr’s VMAs, romance rumors started to swirl as the 2 flirted on stage. A yr later, Rocky seemingly confirmed his admiration of Rihanna along with his music video “Style Killa” starring the Fenty mogul, who seemed to be the monitor’s muse.
“She was at all times my boo. I at all times f—d together with her,” he defined, noting how now, as a pair, they snigger in any respect their similarities. “It was similar to we have been on the identical web page. [We’re] born the identical yr. My dad is from her nation [Barbados]. After I return, I get to see each side of my household…It’s so many similarities. It’s simply humorous.”
Quick ahead 13 years, and Rocky is in an area he by no means imagined for himself: a cheerful, household man. An entire 180 from the approach to life he was residing once they first met, Rocky and Rihanna share two sons, RZA and Riot Rose, and a daughter, Rocki Irish.
“I’m grateful that she was put in my life at the moment, as a result of I believe anytime previous to that, I don’t assume I used to be prepared for one thing like that, you understand, I don’t assume she was both,” he shared candidly. “A lady will change your entire life, particularly if it’s a companion. Earlier than I had my youngsters, it was like being with my lady took a blindfold off. As quickly as you get with a lady, she’ll let you know like, that’s not your pal. That [person] that’s your pal, however that one, no.”
“I obtained a really particular lady,” he concluded.
