{"id":243487,"date":"2026-01-21T01:09:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-21T01:09:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/243487\/"},"modified":"2026-01-21T01:09:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-21T01:09:08","slug":"asap-rocky-recalls-embarrassing-first-meeting-with-rihanna","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/243487\/","title":{"rendered":"ASAP Rocky recalls ’embarrassing’ first meeting with Rihanna"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"ASAPASAP Rocky recalls ’embarrassing’ first meeting with Rihanna<\/p>\n

ASAP Rocky took a stroll back in memory lane when his eyes first caught Rihanna, who is now the mother of his three kids.<\/p>\n

During the Monday episode of The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, the 37-year-old rapper recalled his first meeting with the Diamonds hitmakers, which took place at a New York City nightclub.<\/p>\n

However, the situation at the time was rather “embarrassing” as he was pushed back by bouncers and hysterically said Rihanna did not do anything to help him.<\/p>\n

“It was crazy. We met outside of a nightclub, ironically, here in New York. I wasn’t famous at the time. She was obviously Rihanna,” he told Jimmy.<\/p>\n

Rocky went on to say, “And I couldn’t get in. The bouncers didn’t want to let me in, and I was with my friend, the late great Virgil Abloh, and Matthew Williams,’ he went on. <\/p>\n

“You know, we kind of was getting into it with the bouncers and she, kind of, came out and we locked eyes right away,” he recalled. “And I was just, like, in a a daze. And, you know, I was a little embarrassed that she caught me, like, you know, bickering with the guard and stuff like that.”<\/p>\n

This prompted Jimmy to ask Rocky, “Did she help you get in?”<\/p>\n

He quickly replied, “No.”<\/p>\n

For those unversed, Rocky, whose real name is Rakim Mayers, has been dating Rihanna since 2020.<\/p>\n

The pair recently welcomed their third child, their first daughter, named Rocki Irish Mayers, back in September.<\/p>\n

Rihanna and Rocky are also parents to sons RZA, three, and Riot, two.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ASAP Rocky recalls ’embarrassing’ first meeting with Rihanna ASAP Rocky took a stroll back in memory lane when…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":243488,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[156,111,139,69,437],"class_list":{"0":"post-243487","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\/243487","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=243487"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243487\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/243488"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=243487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=243487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=243487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}