Rihannais opening up about how her relationship withA$AP Rockycame to be.
In a newVoguecover storypublished Tuesday, the performer spoke at length about the long road to romance with the 33-year-old rapper, whom she first met in 2012, telling the magazine it takes her some time to establish a true relationship.
“People don’t get out of the friend zone very easily with me,” Rihanna, 34, toldVogue. “And I certainly took a while to get over how much I know him and how much he knows me, because we also know how much trouble we can land each other in.”
A$AP Rocky and Rihanna.Rich Fury/Getty
Speaking about the development of their relationship, Rihanna said Rocky “became [her] family” amid their time spent together in COVID lockdown, during which they embarked on a summer 2020 tour bus road trip from Los Angeles to New York. The vacation consisted of the “Umbrella” hitmaker cooking food outdoors on a “little janky grill … from Walmart,” and her boyfriend tie-dyeing t-shirts.
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For the 2020 holiday season, the couple traveled to Rihanna’s native Barbados — where Rocky’s father is also originally from — for a formal introduction between the rapper and Rihanna’s mother Monica Braithwaite, whose approval isn’t easy to earn, her daughter toldVogue.
Rihanna covers the May 2022 issue ofVogue.Annie Leibovitz/Vogue
Rihanna for the May 2022 issue ofVogue.Annie Leibovitz/Vogue
Elsewhere in the interview, of course, thebillionaire entrepreneurwas asked about the state of her long-awaited ninth studio album, which will mark her first since 2016’sAnti— “My best album to this day,” she remarked.
While she’s preparing forthe birth of her first child, Rihanna insisted the album is still coming, though she’s taking a fresh approach to creating new material, free from prospects of competing with any of her musician peers.
“I’m looking at my next project completely differently from the way I had wanted to put it out before. I think this way suits me better, a lot better,” she revealed. “It’s authentic, it’ll be fun for me, and it takes a lot of the pressure off.”
source: people.com
