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Rihanna and A$AP Rocky attend the “Smurfs” Global Premiere at Mont des Arts on June 28, 2025 in Brussels, Belgium.

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A$AP Rocky and Rihanna love their boys, but when their third baby arrives soon, the couple is crossing their fingers it’s a girl.

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In a new cover story interview with Elle published Tuesday (Sept. 23), the rapper was candid about the fact that he and his superstar partner are openly hoping their next child is made of sugar, spice and everything nice. “I hope it’s a girl. I really do,” Rocky told the publication. “We’re praying for a girl.”

“I feel like it’s going to be a girl,” he continued. “This pregnancy is so different from the other two. You can tell from the experience. I hope it’s a baby girl, man. I need that.”

Ri and Rocky are already parents to young sons RZA and Riot Rose. The billionaire mogul announced that she was pregnant again by debuting her baby bump in May at the 2025 Met Gala, which the latter cochaired.

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The couple has been together since at least 2019, though they’ve yet to tie the knot — at least to the public’s knowledge. “How you know I’m not already a husband?” Rocky teased in his Elle interview. “I’m still not gonna confirm it.”

Now, both stars are busy juggling multiple projects, with Ri overseeing her Fenty empire as Rocky works on ventures in fashion and acting. His latest screen project was starring in Molly Bronstein’s If I Had Legs I’d Kick You.

But according to the New York native, family is his and Ri’s most important area of focus right now. “We don’t talk too much about work, because we deal with that all day, every day,” he told the publication of their relationship. “When you come home, it’s about family. It’s about your relationship. It’s about your household. It ain’t about all that other s–t.”

“We try to keep the business separate,” he added. “What she does is what she does, and what I do is what I do. But when we collab, that’s fun because I get to be creative with her. She’s so trusting of me.”

See Rocky on the cover of Elle below.

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