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Rihanna<\/a> <\/strong>and A$AP Rocky<\/strong><\/a> found love<\/a> the rapper finding himself in what is usually a pretty hopeless place.<\/p>\n “People don’t get out of the friend zone very easily with me,” the singer born Robin Fenty<\/strong>\u00a0told Vogue <\/em>in 2022<\/a> of the longtime pal who won her heart. “And I certainly took a while to get over how much I know him and how much he knows me, because we also know how much trouble we can land each other in.”<\/p>\n But it was a risk well worth taking, and it turns out that the friend zone can contain multitudes, as Rihanna and A$AP (born Rakim Mayers<\/strong>) are now parents of RZA<\/strong>, 3, Riot Rose<\/strong>, 2, and 5-month-old Rocki Irish Mayers<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n “We’re best friends, with a baby,” Rihanna, 38, told British Vogue<\/em>\u00a0for a\u00a0March 2023 cover story<\/a>. “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.”<\/p>\n Yet how did the couple go from flirtatious friends to S.O.s?<\/p>\n<\/div>\n