A year after Rihanna and A$AP Rocky welcomed their first child together, Daily Mail obtained a birth certificate revealing the couple’s son’s name: RZA Athelston Mayers.
Based on the birth certificate, the baby boy was born on May 13, 2022. The couple and their newborn graced the cover of British Vogue nine months later. The singer told the magazine then, “I would like to have more kids but whatever God wants for me, I’m here.”
She also explained her dynamic with Rocky, “We’re best friends with a baby. We have to be on the same page, but we’ve always kind of had that in our relationship. Everything changes when you have a baby, but I wouldn’t say it’s done anything but made us closer.”
The Fenty Beauty founder also revealed that their son is a daddy’s boy. She said, “I’m just sitting on the sidelines when they’re together. I’m literally the girl trying to get into the boys club, waiting for my turn. He is obsessed with his father. And I’m like: ‘Didn’t I give birth to you? What is going on?'”
She added, “The second Rocky makes eye contact with him he is on fire. The whole thing they say about sons and moms, it’s a myth. Sons and fathers is crazy. I realized that the validation that you really need as a boy is from your father.”
Fatherhood also changed the way Rocky works. He told Apple Music 1, “Being outside and working and being creative, it drives more energy for you to think and soak things up like a sponge now that I’m a dad, because I have a whole other perspective.”
“But it honestly helps you get home to your family and get home to your baby,” he continued. “And I can’t even explain it, man. You come home to heaven every day.”
He also shared his parenting style with Dazed in May 2022, saying, “I will always remind my children to never lose their imagination, even as adults, no matter what. I actually love to watch cartoons—I’ve watched like, Teletubbies, Blue’s Clues, Yo Gabba Gabba, Peppa Pig and Baby Shark.”
He added, “I hope to raise open-minded children. Not people who discriminate. And I’m not trying to describe a saint, but realistically, I just want a cool child with cool parents.”
On the other hand, Rihanna’s approach to parenting is more like her mom, Monica Braithwaite. She told E! News last year, “It is weird. Even the little things that annoy me about her, I do it. I literally make all of the same faces. I say the same things. I clear my throat the same way. I move my mouth the same way.”
She added, “I either never noticed it or it never happened until I had a baby.”
