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Caribbean queens run the world!RihannaandNicki Minajhave reunited.
The Fenty designer, 33, and the “Chun-Li” rapper, 38 — who first worked together on Rihanna’s 2010 song “Raining Men” — posed for a photo with Minaj’s husband, Kenneth Petty, andthe couple’s son, plus Rihanna’s boyfriend, rapperA$AP Rocky.
“#RokNRiha #QueenRih #CaribbeanGirlsRunit Love her downnnnnnn #NewYorkS— #YKTFV,” Minaj captioned the post.
In a second post, she and Rihanna pose for a video, trying out different angles for the camera before Rihanna says, “Caribbean things, you know what I’m sayin'?”
While the two musicians haven’t released a song together in years, they previously collaborated on the 2011 track “Fly,” which appeared on Minaj’s hit albumPink Friday,following Rihanna’s “Raining Men” the year prior.
“I wanted to work with Rihanna for a long time. I’m very proud of her accomplishments; especially since she was born on an island like me,” Minaj said then, referring to her Trinidadian heritage and Rihanna’s Barbadian roots.
“This song is a female empowerment song,” she added. “But then again, it’s not specific to just women. It speaks about flying, soaring high in the face of every single solitary adversity that comes your way.”
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Rihanna, who recently celebrated thefive-year anniversaryof her albumANTI, has been keeping busy with her wildly successful Fenty business and her new relationship with A$AP Rocky, 32, whom she was firstrumored to be datingin November.
While they worked together on her 2013 Diamonds World Tour, with A$AP Rocky opening for her U.S. tour dates, and have been close friends for years, the two didn’t make their relationship official until this year.
A$AP Rockycalled his girlfriend “the love of my life"and “my lady” forGQ’s June/July 2021 cover story, telling the magazine it’s “so much better” to be in a relationship.
A$AP Rocky and Rihanna.Stephane Cardinale - Corbis/Corbis via Getty
“So much better when you got ‘the One.’ She amounts to probably, like, a million of the other ones,” he explained.
A sourcetold PEOPLEin August that the couple “evolved” from being friends to entering a “solid romance.”
“They already knew and respected each other and it has just grown from there,” a music source said, explaining that their friendship gave them “a great foundation.”
“They loved to laugh and have a blast together before they even dated,” the source added. “All of that makes for a solid romance now.”
source: people.com
