Rihanna and A$AP Rocky Went From Friends to Lovers to Parents – See Their Relationship Timeline

Rihanna and A$AP Rocky are the definition of friends-turned-lovers, and their years-long romance is sweet to watch. The couple have been together since November 2020, but fans were obsessed with the idea that they had been a couple for a long time.

The Savage X Fenty creator and rapper started out as lifelong friends, working together as musical collaborators in the early 2010s, but they weren't romantically linked until nearly a decade later . However, in the past year, their relationship took a turn after the two became first-time parents and welcomed their first child together, a son, in May 2022.

In her May 2022 Vogue cover story, Rihanna joked about her friendship-turned-romance with Rocky and said, "People don't get out of the friend zone with me very easily," adding, "And I certainly took a while getting over how well I know him and how well he knows me, because we also know how much trouble we can get in. Example: The 2012 MTV Video Music Awards, when Rocky joins Rihanna on stage for a rendition of her single "Cockiness," a moment in which he also playfully grabbed her ass in front of the world.

"That wasn't part of the rehearsal!" Rihanna exclaimed in Vogue. "I was like, 'What are you doing!?' My manager was like, Oh my God, she must kinda like this guy. She never lets that shit slide." Turns out, Rihanna liked Rocky a lot, because, in the same interview, she also said, " I just feel like I can do any part of life with him."

It looks like she's staying true to her word as the singer is now expecting her second child, a surprise she revealed during her iconic halftime performance at the 2023 Super Bowl, where her beau took her encouraged from the sidelines. Amid all this good news, let's take a look back at Rihanna and Rocky's romantic journey over the years.