Whereas protecting 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 friends got here up along with her youngest’s identify.
Rihanna is praising her associate A$AP Rocky’s function as a father.
In Harper’s BAZAAR’s March 2025 Legacy Problem 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 allure,” Rihanna stated, earlier than jokingly including, “I am irritated 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?”
“They usually love him, however once I see it, oh, it is the most effective,” she stated.
The Fenty Magnificence founder went on to share particulars about her relationship with Rocky, whom she started relationship in late 2019 after being pals for years. And whereas Rihanna, 37, and Rocky, 37, are well-known, she stated they do not let that cease them from spending time collectively in public.
“We prefer to eat with individuals. We like to buy with individuals. We prefer to stroll the streets with individuals,” she advised the journal. “I do not like a non-public room. I haven’t got them shut down shops. I do not just like the Rapunzel life. It’s extremely isolating. It’s extremely 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 dwelling.”
Rihanna added that occurring dates and having enjoyable collectively as any regular non-celebrity couple is necessary for each of them — together with going out to bars, eating places, arcades, karaoke, and extra.
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“That is a giant factor for us and truly a extremely huge factor for him,” she stated. “He at all times jogs my memory, regardless of how arduous the whole lot 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 had been pals? Bear in mind after we simply used to have enjoyable as pals?'”
Rihanna and Rocky confirmed their relationship in Might 2021. The pair welcomed RZA in Might 2022, earlier than RiRi stunned 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 stated. “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 method. 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 buddy and collaborator, Pharrell, truly named Riot.
“He gave us this identify pondering 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 may have the whole historical past: the power, the time, the month that it’s.”
In the end, Rihanna stated her kids stay her high precedence, however admitted that she nonetheless typically struggles to steadiness motherhood and her profession.
“Each choice I make revolves round them, however the whole lot that I do 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 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 is not 100% 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 almost all of that’s me letting myself down, which suggests one thing has to alter, however the whole lot 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 steadiness 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.”
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