Congratulations are in order for Rihanna and ASAP Rocky on the birth of their new baby.
On Wednesday (Sept. 24), Rihanna announced the birth of their daughter, Rocki Irish Mayers, who arrived on Sept. 13, through a post on her Instagram.
The singer revealed her pregnancy earlier this year ahead of the 2025 Met Gala, where she appeared with a visible baby bump while arriving at her hotel.
Rocki is the couple’s third child, following the birth of their sons RZA Athelson Mayers in May 2022 and Riot Rose Mayers in August 2023.
Rihanna had previously talked about expanding her family in an April interview with Interview Magazine, telling Mel Ottenberg, “I’ll have as many as God wants me to have … I don’t know what God wants, but I would go for more than two. I would try for my girl. But of course if it’s another boy, it’s another boy.”
ASAP Rocky echoed those hopes in an Elle interview published on Tuesday (Sept. 23), the day before welcoming their bundle of joy, saying, “I hope it’s a girl. I really do. We’re praying for a girl. Our first time, we wanted to know the sex of the baby. The second time, we didn’t want to know. Third time, we don’t want to know until, you know ... I feel like it’s going to be a girl. This pregnancy is so different from the other two. You can tell from the experience. I hope it’s a baby girl, man. I need that.”
In a GQ interview, Rocky joked about naming the baby after his Highest 2 Lowest co-star, Denzel Washington.
“Denzel, no matter what,” he told the magazine. “The first female [to] come out named Denzel, it’s lit. We got it figured out.”
Hints about the baby’s gender had been dropping for months. At the global premiere of The Smurfs, Entertainment Tonight’s Kevin Frazier asked Rocky if “that’s girl you’ve been waiting for?”
The rapper smiled and responded, “It is, man. It is,” before holding up a Smurfette plush doll and joking, “Right here.”
While Rocky is preparing for the release of his album Don’t Be Dumb and his first fashion collaboration with Moncler, Rihanna has remained mostly quiet on the music front.
Despite rumors of a reggae album and various hints that she was back in the recording studio, Rihanna has not confirmed any plans to release a full album. Her last was 2016’s ANTI, though she recently released a new song “Friend of Mine” for The Smurfs soundtrack earlier this year.