A$AP Rocky Says His Dad Died on Christmas the Same Day His First Album Hit Number One, and He Was on His Bathroom Floor in Paris Crying When Rihanna Walked In

A$AP Rocky Says His Dad Died on Christmas the Same Day His First Album Hit Number One, and He Was on His Bathroom Floor in Paris Crying When Rihanna Walked In

“My first album went number one. My dad died on Christmas. I was on my bathroom floor in Paris crying,” A$AP Rocky said. “I don’t even know how Rihanna got the key to my room. She walked right in. ‘Yo, you good’?”

“She really is a strong black woman and she held me down even when I was at my lowest,” A$AP Rocky said of Rihanna. “The truth of the matter is when my dad died, she was there for me. When I got locked up in Sweden, she was there for me. When the rally happened, she was there for me.”

A$AP Rocky and Rihanna sit front row together at the AWGE show during Paris Fashion Week Men’s SS25 at Hôtel de Maisons on June 21, 2024. Photo by Swan Gallet / WWD via Getty Images.

Then he told the story. “My first album went number one. My dad died on Christmas. I was on my bathroom floor in Paris crying. She called me for some reason to congratulate me in Paris. We both in Paris. I didn’t know she was in. She didn’t know I was in Paris.”

He’d stopped answering his phone. “I don’t even know how Rihanna got the key to my room,” he said. “She walked right in. Yo, you good?”

A$AP Rocky and Rihanna at the 2026 Met Gala at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City
A$AP Rocky and Rihanna together at the Metropolitan Museum of Art for the 2026 Met Gala on May 4, 2026. Photo by Cindy Ord / Getty Images.

“Every time I’m at my lowest and darkest place … she always f***ing there for me.”

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