A$AP Rocky Says Rihanna Was ‘Laughing & Cracking Jokes’ While in Labor

After welcoming baby RZA in May 2022, children two and three, Riot and Rocki, were a breeze in the delivery room for Rihanna and A$AP Rocky.

Rocky graces the cover of VIBE‘s return to print media in the issue published on Tuesday (June 2), which found him touching on a plethora of topics, including fatherhood.

“Being emotionally present, emotionally available, receptive, still endearing, but not only that, loving,” he said while describing what how he pictures fatherhood. “That’s easy. That’s me all day. That’s just me.”

The second and third times in the delivery room mimicked the first, so Rocky and Ri were laughing and joking around with each other throughout the births of Riot and Rocki, he shared.

“It was just so exciting because you just don’t know what to prepare for,” he explained of welcoming firstborn RZA. “You don’t know what’s to come, so the second and third time was really similar to the first experience. We were laughing while she was in labor, literally laughing and cracking jokes and s–t,” he said.

A little over a year after baby RZA, Rihanna gave birth to their second son, Riot, in August 2023. The couple welcomed a daughter, Rocki Irish Mayers, in September 2025.

Elsewhere in the interview, A$AP Rocky also addressed the dangerous situation surrounding the woman who fired more than 10 shots from an AR-15-like rifle into their Los Angeles home in March, while the couple was at home with their three children.

“It was f–ked up,” Rocky admitted. “Somebody attempted at [harming] me and my family. It took away a lot of peace and happiness of being able to just be free. I don’t want to be robbed of my peace and joy.”

Ivanna Ortiz initially attempted to flee the scene before being apprehended by police nearby the Beverly Hills home. Ortiz pleaded not guilty to 10 charges of assault with a semiautomatic firearm and three charges of shooting at an occupied dwelling.

She faces up to life in prison if convicted. The 35-year-old was ordered to undergo a mental health evaluation by Judge Shannon K. Cooley in May as Deputy Public Defender Derek Dillman expressed doubts that Ortiz is mentally capable of standing trial.

See Rocky on the cover of VIBE below: