A$AP Rocky will always remember the place Rihanna first “fell in love” with him.
The “Fashion Killa” rapper lately sat down for an expansive cowl story interview with W journal about his upcoming album, “Don’t Be Dumb,” life as a father and relationship one in all music’s most outspoken and endearing pop stars — which apparently started round 2012.
Rocky was nonetheless eagerly awaiting the discharge of his first album, 2013′s “Long. Live. A$AP,” when he filmed the video for its fourth single, “Fashion Killa,” on the Mercer Resort in Manhattan — the place the W interview was carried out — and nabbed Rihanna as his onscreen love curiosity.
“This is very special because this is the first place she fell in love with me,” Rocky informed the outlet, including, “Virgil Abloh shot the music video for ‘Fashion Killa’ in 2012, and that was the same couch where Rihanna and I sat in the first scene. That was that same room.”
Within the video, the rapper is proven lounging on a crisp, white sofa in his resort room with Rihanna, who then accompanies him on a late-night purchasing spree.
However Rocky informed W that he and Rihanna’s flirtations began even sooner than the “Fashion Killa” video.
“It’s a lot of history between us,” he stated. “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,” Rocky continued. “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!’”
Issues have actually modified since then. Though Rocky and Rihanna had already precipitated romance rumors after he grabbed her butt throughout a joint efficiency on the 2012 MTV Video Music Awards, they didn’t begin relationship till 2019 — and now share two kids.
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Rocky informed W he “knew from when we were younger” that he needed the Barbados-born singer to be the mom of his kids and wagered that they “both did.”
He and Rihanna have since welcomed two sons: 2-year-old RZA and 1-year-old Riot.
Rocky additionally spoke on the affect being a father has had on him, telling W, “Once you a parent, you just embody that, no matter what.”
