For subscribers
A$AP Rocky grew up, settled down with Rihanna and returned to rap
Sign up now: Get ST's newsletters delivered to your inbox
A$AP Rocky (left) and Rihanna at the Gotham Film Awards in New York on Dec 1, 2025.
PHOTO: AFP
Joe Coscarelli and Jon Caramanica
NEW YORK – In the time since A$AP Rocky released his last album, Testing, in 2018, he has acted in two Hollywood movies, became romantic partners and a father of three with Rihanna, faced two criminal prosecutions and seen dozens of his unfinished songs let loose onto the internet by leakers.
It has been a sometimes agonising, sometimes thrilling stretch of time defined by upheaval, and it sometimes seemed like Rocky might never put out an album again.
