{"id":242559,"date":"2026-01-20T13:06:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-20T13:06:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/242559\/"},"modified":"2026-01-20T13:06:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-20T13:06:07","slug":"aap-rocky-recalls-embarrassing-first-meeting-with-partner-rihanna","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/242559\/","title":{"rendered":"A$AP Rocky recalls ’embarrassing first meeting’ with partner Rihanna"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"A$AP<\/p>\n

A$AP Rocky admits he wasn’t famous when he first met Rihanna<\/p>\n

A$AP Rocky has officially shared his first meeting with partner Rihanna. <\/p>\n

The duo first met in 2012 while rehearsing for the MTV Video Music Awards performance of Cockiness (Love It). From there, they developed a good friendship, which transformed into a relationship in 2019. <\/p>\n

But what many people don’t know is that Rocky\u2019s first interaction with the Barbadian singer wasn\u2019t in 2012, but he had already crossed paths with her before he got famous. <\/p>\n

The 37-year-old rapper recently appeared at The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon where he unveiled the first ever interaction with the Diamonds singer. <\/p>\n

A$AP told Jimmy, \u201cYo, it was crazy. We met outside of a nightclub ironically in New York. I wasn\u2019t famous at the time. She was obviously Rihanna. And I couldn\u2019t get in. The bouncers didn\u2019t want to let me in.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Sundress singer opened that he was trying hard to get into the nightclub with his friends, late great Virgil Abloh and Matthew Williams.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe kind of were getting into it with the bouncers, and she kind of came out and we locked eyes right away.\u201d<\/p>\n

Rocky explained how he fell in love with her on first sight. However, he also thought that the moment was quite embarrassing.<\/p>\n

\u201cI was just like in a daze. I was a little embarrassed that she caught me like bickering with the guard and stuff like that\u201d, he continued.<\/p>\n

Fallon, out of curiosity asked the rapper, \u201cDid she help you get in? to which, he replied, \u201cNo.\u201d<\/p>\n

The couple now shares three kids namely Rza, Riot and baby Rocki.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A$AP Rocky admits he wasn’t famous when he first met Rihanna A$AP Rocky has officially shared his first…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":242560,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[156,111,139,69,437],"class_list":{"0":"post-242559","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tv","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-new-zealand","10":"tag-newzealand","11":"tag-nz","12":"tag-tv"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242559","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=242559"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242559\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/242560"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=242559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=242559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=242559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}