Along with Rihanna’s lover A$AP Rocky, Rihanna’s kid, Kenneth Petty, Rihanna’s husband Nicki Minaj, and the “Chun-Li” rapper, who was 33 years old when they first collaborated on Rihanna’s 2010 single “Raining Men,” the Fenty designer posed for a shot with Petty and Minaj.
During the meet-up, Minaj shared an Instagram photo of the entire posse. With Minaj’s son perched on her lap in the center, the two couples sit side by side on a couch in the photo. With her boyfriend’s arm around her, Rihanna leans into him, smiling.
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Attempting several camera angles, she and Rihanna pose for a video in a second post. Rihanna then says, “Caribbean things, you know what I’m sayin’?”
Although they haven’t worked together on a single track in a long time, the two artists did work together on “Fly” in 2011 on Nicki Minaj’s smash album Pink Friday, which followed Rihanna’s “Raining Men” the previous year.
According to MTV News, Minaj referred to the “Fly” singer as “one of my absolute faves” in a 2010 Facebook post.
“For a long time, I wanted to collaborate with Rihanna. The fact that we were both born on islands—Trinidadians like Minaj and Barbadians like Rihanna—makes me proud of her achievements, Minaj added at the time.
An empowering song for women, she went on to say. “However, it isn’t limited to women alone. In spite of every obstacle you encounter, it encourages you to soar to new heights.
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The five-year anniversary of Rihanna’s album ANTI was celebrated not long ago, and since then, the superstar has kept herself occupied with her massively successful Fenty brand and her reported romance with 32-year-old A$AP Rocky.
Even though they’ve been friends for a long time and worked together on her 2013 Diamonds World Tour (A$AP Rocky opened for her U.S. tour dates), they only made their relationship public this year.
A$AP In an interview for GQ’s June/July 2021 cover story, Rocky gushed about his fiancée, calling her “the love of my life” and “my lady.” He also mentioned how much better it is to be happily married.
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When you found ‘the One,’ life improved dramatically. With her, it’s like having a million of the other ones, he said.
In August, a source informed PEOPLE that the pair “evolved” from a friendly relationship to a “solid romance.”
A source close to the music industry explained that the two had “a great foundation” in their friendship, saying, “They already knew and respected each other and it has just grown from there.”
“They were great fun to be around before they were even dating,” the insider said. “What we have here is the makings of a strong romance.”