A$AP Rocky has recalled an “embarrassing” first encounter with his girlfriend Rihanna.
The 37-year-old rapper has opened up about the first time he met the Umbrella singer, who he has been in a relationship with since 2019.
During his appearance on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon on Monday night, Rocky admitted that their first meeting was “embarrassing”.
“It was crazy,” he remembered of the moment. “We met outside of a nightclub, ironically, here in New York. I wasn’t famous at the time. She was obviously Rihanna.”
He recalled that, as he wasn’t famous at the time, he couldn’t get into exclusive the club.
“And I couldn’t get in,” the rapper explained. “The bouncers didn’t want to let me in, and I was with my friend, the late great Virgil Abloh, and Matthew Williams.”
He continued, “You know, we kind of was getting into it with the bouncers and she, kind of, came out and we locked eyes right away.”
Rocky told host Jimmy that, in that moment, he was “in a daze”.
“And, you know, I was a little embarrassed that she caught me, like, you know, bickering with the guard and stuff like that,” he confessed.
When Jimmy asked if Rihanna, 37, had helped him get into the club, Rocky simply replied, ‘No,’ prompting a laugh from the audience.
Rocky and Rihanna, who had been friends since 2012, welcomed their first child, Rza, in May 2022. They had their second son, Riot, in August 2023, and their daughter, Rocki, in September 2025.
