Whereas overlaying 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 celeb friends got here up together with her youngest’s title.
Rihanna is praising her companion A$AP Rocky’s function as a father.
In Harper’s BAZAAR’s March 2025 Legacy Concern 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 appeal,” Rihanna mentioned, earlier than jokingly including, “I am aggravated as a result of my sons typically simply dwell for him greater than they dwell for me. And I am like, ‘Do you know who cooked you? Have you learnt who pushed you out?”
“And so they love him, however once I see it, oh, it is the very best,” she mentioned.
The Fenty Magnificence founder went on to share particulars about her relationship with Rocky, whom she started courting in late 2019 after being mates for years. And whereas Rihanna, 37, and Rocky, 37, are well-known, she mentioned they do not let that cease them from spending time collectively in public.
“We wish to eat with individuals. We like to buy with individuals. We wish to stroll the streets with individuals,” she informed 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 totally isolating. It’s totally lonely. And what am I defending myself from? I am really permitting individuals to dictate the theft of the life that I might really be residing.”
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 an enormous factor for us and truly a extremely huge factor for him,” she mentioned. “He at all times jogs my memory, regardless of how laborious all the pieces is that we’re coping with in our life, in our careers and as dad and mom, he is like, ‘Bear in mind after we had been mates? Bear in mind after we simply used to have enjoyable as mates?'”
Rihanna and Rocky confirmed their relationship in Could 2021. The pair welcomed RZA in Could 2022, earlier than RiRi stunned the world together with her second being pregnant on the Tremendous Bowl in February 2023. She gave delivery 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, 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 isn’t 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, really named Riot.
“He gave us this title pondering it was going to be a lady, 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 go away it there with a full cease. He may have all the historical past: the vitality, the time, the month that it’s.”
Finally, Rihanna mentioned her kids stay her high precedence, however admitted that she nonetheless usually struggles to stability motherhood and her profession.
“Each resolution I make revolves round them, however all the pieces that I try this I like robs me from them,” she informed 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 whenever you present up there, it isn’t 100% 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 individuals down, however I additionally know that the majority 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 like this. I strive to determine a stability 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.”
See extra from Rihanna’s full profile, right here.