Rihanna is applauding A$AP Rocky’s role as a father in Harper’s BAZAAR’s March 2025 Legacy Issue. In the cover story, the singer shared that the “greatest thing” about her partner is witnessing him as a dad while they raise their two sons, RZA, 2, and Riot, 18 months.
“His pureness. His charm,” Rihanna said, before jokingly adding, “I’m annoyed because my sons sometimes just live for him more than they live for me. And I’m like, ‘Did you know who cooked you? Do you know who pushed you out?”
“And they love him, but when I see it, oh, it’s the best,” she said.
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The Fenty beauty founder delved into details of her relationship with A$AP Rocky, revealing that their longtime friendship led to romance in late 2019.
Despite their fame, the 37-year-old said they prioritize spending time together in public without letting their celebrity status get in the way.
“We like to eat with people. We like to shop with people. We like to walk the streets with people,” she told the magazine. “I don’t like a private room. I don’t have them shut down stores. I don’t like the Rapunzel life. It’s very isolating. It’s very lonely. And what am I protecting myself from? I’m actually allowing people to dictate the robbery of the life that I could actually be living.”
Rihanna added that enjoying regular date nights with A$AP Rocky, going on outings like dining at restaurants, visiting bars, playing arcade games, and singing karaoke help them to maintain a sense of normalcy in their relationship.
“That’s a big thing for us and actually a really big thing for him,” she said. “He always reminds me, no matter how hard everything is that we’re dealing with in our life, in our careers and as parents, he’s like, ‘Remember when we were friends? Remember when we just used to have fun as friends?'”
Rihanna and A$AP Rocky confirmed their relationship in May 2021 and later welcomed their sons, RZA in May 2022 and Riot in August 2023, following her surprise pregnancy reveal at the Super Bowl.
In her Harper’s BAZAAR interview, the singer shared heartfelt details about their children.
“RZA is just an empath,” Rihanna said. “He’s so magical. He loves music. He loves melody. He loves books. He loves water. Bath time, swimming, pool, beach, anything.”
“And Riot, he’s just hilarious. When he wakes up, he starts to squeal, scream,” she added. “Not in a crying way. He just wants to sing. And I’m like, ‘Okay, here we go!’ He’s my alarm in the morning! He’s not taking no for an answer from anyone. I don’t know where he came from, dude.”
Rihanna revealed that Pharrell, a longtime friend and collaborator of A$AP Rocky, was the one who named their son Riot.
“He gave us this name thinking it was going to be a girl, because he had seen something online,” she shared. “Pharrell is very deep. He’s not surface. He will never say anything and just leave it there with a full stop. He will have the entire history: the energy, the time, the month that it is.”
Rihanna said that her children are her top priority but admitted she still struggles to balance motherhood with her career.
“Every decision I make revolves around them, but everything that I do that I love robs me from them,” she told Harper’s BAZAAR. “So I have a weird resentment with the things that I love. You almost feel like something is always suffering for you to show up somewhere. And even when you show up there, it’s not 100 percent because there’s something else on the wheel.”
“It’s actually given me a lot more self-guilt. I don’t like letting people down, but I also know that most of that is me letting myself down, which means something has to change, but everything is on the wheel at all times,” she continued. “I have to keep reminding myself that I asked for this, I love this. I try to figure out a balance so that I can feel fulfilled when I show up to something, so I can feel I don’t have any guilt.”
Touching on aging, the ‘Umbrella’ hitmaker, who turned 37 years recently, conceded that “getting old is s–t, but it’s also a blessing.”
Rihanna said that she feels wiser, less materialistic, and more focused on living in the moment.
“My legacy is right now,” she declared. “That’s all I have the most control over. There’s things I have no control over. My legacy is what I do with my time at this moment. How am I present with the people around me? How am I grateful? How am I making this a happy moment? How am I making a memory?”
“I’m even in the space of not even spending my money on things, but I’ll spend my money on an experience,” the “Bitch Better Have My Money” crooner — who is worth $1.4 billion — said. “That’s something no one can take from me. Somebody could rob me right now of everything I have, [but] they will never take a memory, an experience, a feeling, a scent that reminded me of that moment. There’s just things that mean more when you grow up.”
