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Katie Wilson

Rihanna and A$AP Rocky 'set to marry this year' amid baby rumours

A$AP Rocky has already declared girlfriend Rihanna is 'the one' – and there have even been rumours the pair are expecting a baby together.

So do we also hear wedding bells for this music power couple in 2022?

The pair, both 33, only went public with their relationship in September last year when they walked the red carpet together at the prestigious Met Gala.

But US rapper A$AP, whose real name is Rakim Mayers, says he is in it for the long haul with his Bajan beauty.

Describing her as the "love of his life", he said RiRi amounts to "like a million of other ones".

Pals say a baby and a wedding are on the couple’s to-do list for 2022, so watch this space...

Rihanna and ASAP Rocky have been an item since 2020 (Getty)

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A source close to the pair told Heat magazine the duo had a "blissful" time celebrating Christmas in Barbados.

Now Rihanna’s friends and family are said to be taking bets on when they will announce their engagement and baby news.

"They’re both ready to do this and have been for some time," the pal shared. "It’s just a case of logistics and figuring out how to break the news."

While A$AP doesn’t much care for formality or putting labels on their relationship, it’s said RiRi is more traditional than people think.

The source revealed: "Ri is quite old fashioned at heart and she’s earmarked 2022 as the year for her to marry Rocky and make their dream a reality."

And it seems Riri’s family approve of her new man, as even the Umbrella singer’s mum has apparently been urging him to propose.

The pair went public with their romance in September 2021 (Taylor Hill/WireImage)
ASAP has called Rihanna the 'love of his life' (Taylor Hill)

Although the couple don’t seem to have been together that long, they have actually known each other for over a decade.

They first met in 2011 when they collaborated on the track Cockiness (Love It) which they performed at the MTV Video Music Awards a year later.

A$AP was also RiRi’s opening act on the North American leg of her Diamonds world tour in 2013.

But the duo were not seen together in public again until 2018 when they attend a Louis Vuitton show at Paris Fashion Week.

The pair begin hanging out at several events but seem to just be friends – as Rihanna dated Saudi businessman Hassan Jameel from 2016 to 2020.

The couple were friends before becoming an item (Getty Images)
ASAP even starred in a Fenty campaign with Rihanna (Instagram)

Single again in January 2020, Rihanna is said to have shared a New York hotel suite with A$AP, but a pal said at the time they were "hanging out, not dating".

In the summer of that year Rihanna and A$AP worked together again for a Fenty Skin campaign.

By December 2020 things turned romantic between them as the new couple are said to be "inseparable".

A pal told PEOPLE: "They loved to laugh and have a blast together before they even dated. All of that makes for a solid romance now."

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