Rihanna gets behind the lens, while A$AP Rocky offers a candid look at his life in the latest issue of W Magazine. A$AP Rocky is featured on the front cover and was photographed by none other than his wife Rihanna in the new issue.

The rapper, 35, and the singer and business mogul, 36, share sons Riza, two and Riot, one. The couple first met in 2012, stayed friends, and didn’t actually begin their relationship until seven years later,

A$AP Rocky explains how they first crossed paths. “I was kicked out of this nightclub. They wasn’t giving me no access to it. This is when I’m just starting out, so nobody knows me. I was with Matthew Williams and Virgil. I was getting into it with the bouncers, and she came out. We just locked eyes. She didn’t even know us, but she was like, ‘Yo! Why y’all not letting him in? What’s wrong with you?! Let that man in!’ ”

Speaking to the publication on how he knew Rihanna was the one, he said: ‘I knew from when we were younger. We both did, I think. So it was only right when we got older. We just kind of reconnected.’

When I ask how he knew Rihanna was the right person to be the mother of his children, he doesn’t miss a beat: “I knew from when we were younger. We both did, I think. So it was only right when we got older. We just kind of reconnected.” That happened around “kind of, sort of 2019, 2020,” says Rocky. Rza arrived in 2022, then Riot in 2023. “I think Rza is going to keep to himself. He’s an introvert,” Rocky continues. “Riot’s an extrovert—he’s just like his mom. Rza is more so like his dad, like me. And he’s my twin. He got his mom’s forehead, but he got everything else from me. I love my boy’s big forehead! I loved it on his mother. Listen to ‘Jukebox Joints.’ ” (He’s referring to this lyric from the 2015 track: “Ain’t nothing better than the pretty, big forehead bitch.”) Rocky shows me a video on his phone of Rza sitting on the floor cuddling with Rihanna, the two of them surrounded by pairs of shoes. “Riot looks up to Rza,” he says. “I think Rza’s warming up to Riot.” S: W Mag

 

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