'We're Never Getting That Album': Jokes and Drake Memes Flood Twitter as Rihanna Reveals Baby Bump
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Rihanna, 33, was accompanied by boyfriend A$AP Rocky, 33, in New York on Monday for a series of paparazzi flicks that doubled as the Barbadian singer and designer's pregnancy announcement. The now-viral baby bump comes about five months after the fashion-forward couple turned heads and raised eyebrows at the Met Gala with their oversized parkas.
Donning an oversized Chanel puffer jacket with colorful jewels and a gold cross adorning her midsection, Rihanna debuted her baby bump and all but verbally confirmed mounting suspicions that she is pregnant and expecting her first child with beau A$AP Rocky, real name Rakim Mayers.
Photographs of the couple were captured in the Harlem borough of New York City, the neighborhood in which A$AP Rocky grew up.
Several snaps were taken during the session, featuring the couple together and solo shots of a visibly pregnant Rihanna.
In May 2021, A$AP Rocky gushed about finding love in a COVID-19 pandemic with Rihanna, referring to Robyn Fenty as the "love of my life" and "the one."
"I think I'd be an incredible, remarkably overall amazing dad," he said at the time, adding that starting a family is in his "destiny."
"I would have a very fly child. Very," said the "Fashion Killa" rapper.
Rihanna, left, and ASAP Rocky attend The Metropolitan Museum of Art's Costume Institute benefit gala celebrating the opening of the "In America: A Lexicon of Fashion" exhibition on Monday, Sept. 13, 2021, in New York
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Rihanna has also been candid about her desire to have children, and told British Vogue in March 2020 that she adopted a new approach to living after coming to the realization that life is short.
"When you're overwhelmed, you need to start cutting things out. And I'm overwhelmed too much," Rihanna told the magazine, shortly after parting ways with billionaire Hassan Jameel, a boyfriend of three years. "What's happening now is that I'm going back to black and white. My gray area is shutting down."
She went on to detail that she imagines having "three or four" children. A partner, however, was not a necessity.
"The only thing that matters is happiness; that's the only healthy relationship between a parent and a child," Rihanna said. "That's the only thing that can raise a child truly, is love."
As celebrity friends like rapper Nicki Minaj rushed to congratulate Rihanna on her pregnancy reveal and the experiences to come, it would appear the pop star's fanbase is not too thrilled with the news for a variety of reasons, ranging from gripes with Rihanna's music hiatus to concerns about A$AP Rocky as a partner and father.
Rihanna is pregnant bruh we’re never getting that album ever
— gucci & gumdrops (@queend236) January 31, 2022
In my head Rihanna got pregnant through immaculate conception, cause no way that man is her bd
— Livyyy. (@livyglizzy) January 31, 2022
Rihanna pregnant. We not getting another album no time soon😭. pic.twitter.com/wDwVpm4vGX
— Caleb M. Leeper (@TheCalebLeeper) January 31, 2022
So Rihanna is pregnant & I’m not the baby? pic.twitter.com/BvYQgzBhUh
— 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐥𝐨𝐜𝐚𝐥 𝐟𝐚𝐜𝐞 𝐩𝐚𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐫 🎨 (@slurredechoes) January 31, 2022
Rihanna is pregnant which means NO NEW ALBUM pic.twitter.com/sGAzk1URQ6
— Rihanna is PREGNANT (@wiz_thcreator) January 31, 2022
There was also a section of social media humorously mourning the loss of a chance to get with Rihanna. Several viral tweets notably brought up rapper Drake, who was notoriously rejected by Rihanna after he referred to her as "someone I've been in love with since I was 22" while presenting the singer with the Vanguard Award at the 2016 MTV Video Awards.
Drake waking up and seeing why Rihanna trending pic.twitter.com/QIZhnKv4rT
— Thee Stallion’s Whoreˣ⁴ (@Depressed_Bihhh) January 31, 2022
congratulations to rihanna and asap or whatever i guess smh pic.twitter.com/Nwtq3zO0vc
— Hendrix (@yunghndrx) January 31, 2022
Congratulations 🎉 Rihanna & ASAP pic.twitter.com/SUZlgo4euC
— 🎵CAP by Whale Brilo🎵 Out Now🌍🔥 (@YoRealEnt) January 31, 2022
Drake after finding out Rihanna is really pregnant with Asap's child. pic.twitter.com/ue1jWg0r9W
— 𝑆𝑣𝑖𝑛𝑡 (@unclesvint) January 31, 2022
Drake gonna drop some bars like “woman of my dreams having a baby & I ain’t responsible, when that shit get Rocky I hope she hit my line As Soon As Possible”
— V ØR VØSS (@NL_Vossi) January 31, 2022
