Rihanna has been known to use male models now and then for her Savage X Fenty lingerie brand, but she played closer to home on Monday when the brand featured a nearly nude photo of her partner A$AP Rocky.
The 35-year-old rapper — born Rakim Athelaston Mayers — modeled what looked like a set of white briefs for the brand’s Instagram page.
‘A$AP Rocky in the Classics by Savage X Fenty,’ the brand’s caption read.
Rocky showed of his fit physique in a brown-toned photo featuring him in profile as he flexed his biceps.
The display came a week after Rihanna, 36, promoted the brand herself with some throwback photos of herself in sizzling sheer black lingerie.
A$AP Rocky flaunted his toned physique while modeling a set of classic white boxers on his love Rihanna’s Savage X Fenty Instagram account on Monday
The 35-year-old rapper’s photo drove Rihanna’s fans wild in the comments, and they alternated between praising him for supporting her business and lustily objectifying him
In his photo, Rocky revealed his large ‘ASAP’ tattoo, which was printed across his rippling abs.
He didn’t have any other ink visible, but he sported a gold bracelet, multiple gold rings and a thick gold chain.
The rapper had his dark hair styled in cornrows that alternated between thick and thin braids.
Rihanna’s fans and followers were supportive of Rocky’s modeling appearance, though several weren’t ashamed to ogle him in the comments.
‘they cropped the best part [crying and laughing emoji],’ joked one fan in the comments section.
‘FINALLY I’VE BEEN ASKING FOR ROCKY TO BE ON SXF,’ gushed another Instagram user.
‘Dont look ! He’s HER baby daddy,’ joked one fan.
‘The definition of “get you a partner who supports your business,”‘ added an admiring viewer.
Rocky and Rihanna have been friends and collaborators going back more than a decade, but it wasn’t until late 2020 that they were officially reported to be an item; seen in May in NYC
The lovebirds now share two sons: RZA, 22 months, and Riot, seven months; pictured in October in NYC
The lovebirds were friends for many years and also worked together before they fell in love four years ago and started a family.
Early in their careers, Rocky opened for the US leg of Rihanna’s Diamonds World Tour in 2013, while she starred in his Fashion Killa music video in the same year.
By November 2020, an insider revealed to People that the longtime friends had officially become an item.
In an interview with GQ from 2021, Rocky said Rihanna was ‘the love of [his] life’ and ‘the one’.
‘If that’s in my destiny, absolutely,’ he said about becoming a father. ‘Nah, but like, I think I’d be an incredible, remarkably, overall amazing dad.’
Rihanna subsequently told Vogue in April 2022 that she was not planning to rush into having kids with the rapper.
‘I always thought it would be marriage first, then a baby, but who the f*** says it has to be that way,’ she said. ‘I’m certainly not gonna let that get in the way of me being a mom.’
A year later she said being a mom was ‘legendary,’ adding, ‘It’s everything. You really don’t remember life before, that’s the craziest thing ever.’
A source told People last year that the star has taken to being a mother and is hands-on with her children.
Rihanna initially said she wasn’t rushing to have children, but she also said she wouldn’t let not being married stop her from starting a family; pictured in May 2023 in NYC
‘Rihanna loves being a mom. She is obsessed with her baby boy,’ shared the insider. The insider also said Rocky is ‘very involved as well and a great dad.’
She also said to Vogue: ‘[There’s] not much balance. But everything is stimulating. Everything right now is firing off. I’m excited.
‘It’s getting me super motivated, super energized to do new things, to create And I’m back in the studio and now we’re going to be back on stage for the Super Bowl, which is just crazy that I even agreed to that, but I am, and I’m excited.’
She added: ‘Of course being a new mom is insane. It is lovely. It is epic, honestly.’
