Power couple Rihanna and A$AP Rocky welcomed their first child in May 2022. RiRi revealed that their expecting a second child during the Super Bowl Halftime Show.
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RiRi subtly revealed they’re expecting a second child during the 2023 Super Bowl Halftime Show.
First comes friendship, then comes love, then comes the baby carriage. In January 2022, Rihanna and A$AP Rocky announced they were expecting their first child together, later welcoming their bundle of joy in May. One year after that pregnancy announcement, Riri and Rocky are stronger — and still just as stylish — as ever, as evidenced by their 2023 Golden Globes date on Jan. 10. In fact, their family is about to get even bigger as well, as Rihanna subtly announced that she was expecting their second child during her Super Bowl Halftime Show performance on Feb. 12.
Rihanna’s second pregnancy announcement marks the biggest landmark in her relationship with the rapper, who she has now been dating for nearly three years, even though Rocky only confirmed their relationship in May 2021. However, their connection actually goes back more than a decade, working together multiple times throughout the years before getting romantic.
In June 2021, just a month after confirming the romance, A$AP Rocky opened up again about his relationship at the Tribeca Film Festival premiere of his documentary, Stockholm Syndrome. Rihanna made an appearance in the project, but he said her support for his endeavors was even more valuable to him. “[It’s] important having that support in real life, you know?” Rocky told Entertainment Tonight on the red carpet. “It’s amazing and I’m honestly truly blessed, for real.”
Rihanna and A$AP Rocky’s relationship timeline shows that their connection goes way back, proving friendship is the true foundation of their romance.
Rihanna and Rocky’s friendship dates back almost a decade, but back then, they kept things strictly business. In September, he was featured on a remix of Rihanna’s 2012 hit “Cockiness (Love It)” and even performed the track with her at that year’s MTV Video Music Awards.
A$AP served as the opening act on the U.S. dates of Rihanna’s Diamonds World Tour in 2013, setting the foundation for their romantic cross-country road trip seven years later. Later that year, Rihanna returned the favor and appeared in his “Fashion Killa” music video, a very fitting moment considering how influential they both are in the fashion world. You can just feel the chemistry oozing on-camera.
While the pair didn’t truly reunite professionally or personally since touring together, they still kept things friendly at public events. In 2018, Rihanna and Rocky sat together at Virgil Abloh’s debut Louis Vuitton menswear show — and looked tres chic, as per usual. The next year, they posed together on the red carpet at the British Fashion Awards. They were truly building a reputation as fashion’s hottest couple even before they became a couple.
Rumors spread that Rihanna was dating A$AP Rocky back in February 2020, when they were seen out in New York City together. However, E! was quick to deny the reports. “She wants to be single and isn’t going to jump into something,” a source told the outlet. “She’s hanging out with A$AP Rocky, but she is not dating him. They have a long history and she’s just having fun.” While they may not have been official then, it didn’t take long for that to happen. PEOPLE confirmed that the pair was in fact dating in November after they were spotted having dinner in New York yet again.
Before their relationship was officially confirmed, A$AP reunited with Rihanna professionally in July 2020, when she cast him in her Fenty Skin campaign. In a video with GQ to promote the line, Rocky opened up about working with Riri, saying the best and hardest part was trying to stay professional around her and not goof off.
