A$AP Rocky's Mother Encouraged Him to Date Rihanna

Harlem rapper A$AP Rocky admits it was his mother who encouraged him to settle down with Rihanna...

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A$AP Rocky revealed his mother Renee Black told him to date Rihanna long before she became the rapper’s partner and the mother of his children.

“My mother used to say s–t like, ‘I know you like this girl that you [are] with right now’ — I ain’t gon’ say no names — ‘but I want you with RiRi,'” he said on Thursday’s episode of The New York Times’ “Popcast.”

“It’s like, ‘Ma, why you keep saying that? That girl don’t even want me like that,'” he said.

“Mothers know best,” he said, adding: “I’m thankful that [Rihanna] was put in my life at that time because any time prior to that I don’t think I was ready for something like that. I don’t think she was either.”

Rocky, 37, and Rihanna, also 37, were longtime friends for nearly a decade before they decided to make things romantic in 2020.