Rihanna Reveals ‘Biggest Factor’ About A$AP Rocky, Makes Uncommon Feedback About Children

In Harper’s BAZAAR’s March 2025 Legacy Situation cowl story, the singer — who stuns on the duvet 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.”

“His pureness. His attraction,” Rihanna mentioned, earlier than jokingly including, “I am irritated as a result of my sons typically simply stay for him greater than they stay for me. And I am like, ‘Do you know who cooked you? Are you aware who pushed you out?”

“They usually love him, however after I see it, oh, it is one of the best,” 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 prefer to eat with folks. We like to buy with folks. We prefer to stroll the streets with folks,” 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 really permitting folks to dictate the theft of the life that I might really be dwelling.”

Rihanna added that happening dates and having enjoyable collectively as any regular non-celebrity couple is vital for each of them — together with going out to bars, eating places, arcades, karaoke, and extra.

“That is a giant factor for us and really a extremely massive factor for him,” she mentioned. “He at all times jogs my memory, regardless of how exhausting all the pieces is that we’re coping with in our life, in our careers and as mother and father, he is like, ‘Bear in mind after we have been associates? Bear in mind after 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 shocked the world along 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, seaside, something.”

“And Riot, he is simply hilarious. When he wakes up, he begins to squeal, scream,” she added. “Not in a crying method. He simply desires to sing. And I am like, ‘Okay, right here we go!’ He is my alarm within the morning! He isn’t taking no for a solution from anybody. I do not know the place he got here from, dude.”

Rihanna revealed that she and Rocky’s longtime good friend and collaborator, Pharrell, really named Riot.

“He gave us this title pondering it was going to be a woman, as a result of he had seen one thing on-line,” she shared. “Pharrell may be very deep. He isn’t floor. He won’t ever say something and simply depart it there with a full cease. He can have your complete historical past: the vitality, the time, the month that it’s.”

In the end, Rihanna mentioned her youngsters stay her prime precedence, however admitted that she nonetheless typically struggles to stability motherhood and her profession.

“Each resolution I make revolves round them, however all the pieces that I do this I really like robs me from them,” she advised Harper’s BAZAAR. “So I’ve a bizarre resentment with the issues that I really like. You virtually 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 really given me much more self-guilt. I do not like letting folks down, however I additionally know that almost all of that’s me letting myself down, which suggests one thing has to alter, however all the pieces is on the wheel always,” she continued. “I’ve to maintain reminding myself that I requested for this, I really like this. I strive to determine a stability in order that I can really feel fulfilled after 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.