Rihanna revealed that her second-born son received his name, Riot, from a surprising source: Pharrell Williams. "He gave us this name thinking it was

Rihanna has revealed the celebrity who inspired her and A$AP Rocky to choose the name of their youngest child. The Barbadian singer, 37, and the American rapper, 36, are parents to two-year-old RZA and 18-month-old Riot.

A$AP Rocky and Rihanna are proud parents of two sons — RZA, whom they welcomed in 2022, and Riot, who arrived in 2023. In a 2024 interview with Interview Magazine, Rihanna opened up about her life with two young kids and said she’s happy she started a family with Rocky, whose birth name is Rakim Mayers.

Rihanna is sharing rare details about the different personalities of her and A$AP Rocky's sons, RZA and Riot in her March 2025 cover story for Harper’s Bazaar.

The brothers couldn't be more different.

Rihanna knows we’re all waiting for her new music to drop—we’ve actually been waiting nearly nine years, since 2016’s Anti. But in her March 2025 cover story for Harper’s Bazaar, the superstar reveals she was waiting, too, for a sound that aligned to her new self and mirrored her growth. Now, she’s found it.

Rihanna has two young sons, RZA and Riot, with her longtime partner, rapper A$AP Rocky. Earlier this week, the musician, whose legal name is Rakim Mayers, was found not guilty of firing a gun at a former friend by a jury in Los Angeles.

After eight years in the studio, Rihanna has finally found a new sense of artistic freedom and the space to craft her long anticipated ninth studio album, commonly referred to as R9 by her devotees, the Navy.