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A$AP Rocky is keeping his love life under wraps.
The rapper, 37, dodged a question about his relationship with Rihanna while appearing on the Feb. 4 episode of Julian Shapiro-Barnum’s Celebrity Substitute series.
In the episode of the show, which features public school children interviewing celebrities, a child asked Rocky if he was married to Rihanna.
“That’s an interesting question that you asked,” the performer replied, before asking the child if he’d rather the “Umbrella” singer take his place.
“You want Rihanna, huh?” Rocky said. “Well you got me. You got me today.”
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Rocky, born Rakim Mayers, and Rihanna went public with their relationship in November 2020. The couple share three children: sons RZA Athelston, 3½, and Riot Rose, 2, and daughter Rocki Irish, 5 months.
Their latest addition, Rocki, was born last September.
In the Celebrity Substitute episode, the father-of-three also spoke about he and his partner has been introducing music to their kids.
“I play my children all sorts of genres, so from Michael Jackson’s old, classic stuff to psychedelic music and the Beatles, of course, right? A lot of reggae,” he said. “We live in a musical household, so it’s very diverse.”
The rapper opened up about the first time he met Rihanna, 37, during an appearance on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon earlier this month. He said they met outside of a New York City nightclub many years ago and he “wasn’t famous at the time.”
“She was obviously Rihanna. And I couldn’t get in! The bouncers didn’t want to let me in,” Rocky said. “I was with my friend, the late, great Virgil Abloh and Matthew Williams, and we kinda was getting into it with the bouncers and she came out and we locked eyes right away. I was just like, in a daze.”
Rocky has been celebrating the release of his fourth album Don’t Be Dumb, which came out on Jan. 16. When the work hit No. 1 on the Billboard 200 chart, Rihanna shared a supportive message on social media.
“Just me here to let yall know my baby daddy got the NUMBER 1 ALBUM!!! Aaahhhhhh hah! DONT BE DUMB!!!,” she wrote in a Jan. 25 post on X.
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The “Punk Rocky” rapper previously told PEOPLE at the 2025 Gotham Awards that having Rihanna’s support “means everything.”
“Family support is just… spousal support, everything,” he said. “It just means a lot. It goes a long way.”
