A$AP Rocky Reveals The First Letter Of His Third Baby's Name With Rihanna

A$AP Rocky and Rihanna have baby names on the brain. The couple, who are parents to sons RZA, 3, and Riot, 21 months, recently turned the Met Gala into their own ultra-glam pregnancy announcement. And shortly afterwards, they hinted at the name of their next child.

Rocky went on Late Night with Seth Meyers after the Met Gala, where the host asked if his next kid will continue the family tradition of names beginning with an “R.” The musician confirmed this will “for sure” be the case with the name he and Rihanna choose.

The revelation shuts down a previous potential baby name, which A$AP’s lawyer, Joe Tacopina, indicated a few months before the pregnancy announcement. During a Feb. 19 interview with Extra, Tacopina recalled what Rocky and Rihanna promised to name their next kid after him following the rapper’s acquittal.

“They grabbed me and they said, ‘Listen, our next baby is A$AP Joe,’” Tacopina told Extra. “I said, ‘I’m gonna hold you to that!’”

Tacopina added, “[A$AP] said some very nice things, I mean, told me he loved me and we’re family,” Tacopina said, when asked what A$AP said while hugging him.

According to the attorney, A$AP showed a lot of appreciation for him even before he got the not guilty verdict. “But it’s not so much the hug — that’s after the great news — it’s what he said to me before the jury came out, as they were about to file into that courtroom where he didn’t know if he was going to go home and see his two babies that night or start a decade-long prison sentence literally that day,” Tacopina said.

Tacopina then recalled the “special” moment. “He looked at me and he grabbed me and he said, ‘Joe, I just want you to know I know how hard you fought here. I know everything you’ve done, and I just appreciate you so much. I appreciate everything you’ve done for me, and we’re in this together no matter what, and I love you,” he said. “I was like, ‘OK, Rocky, don’t get me emotional.’”

According to the attorney, hearing that kind of gratitude is “rare.” He explained, “That’s something that is rare when you have a client that’s about to hear his fate, and it’s obviously a very serious moment for him, and he has the wherewithal and thought to think, ‘Let me acknowledge and thank this guy.’ It was special.”