Caribbean queens run the world!Ā RihannaĀ andĀ Nicki MinajĀ have reunited.Ā The Fenty designer, 33, and the āChun-Liā rapper, 38 ā who first worked together on Rihannaās 2010 song āRaining Menā ā posed for a photo with Minajās husband, Kenneth Petty, andĀ the coupleās son, plus Rihannaās boyfriend, rapperĀ A$AP Rocky.
Minaj posted a photo of the whole crew from the meet-up on herĀ Instagram. In the snap, the two couples sit side-by-side on a couch with Minajās son sitting on her lap in the middle. Rihanna grins as she leans into her boyfriend, who has his arm wrapped around her.Ā ā#RokNRiha #QueenRih #CaribbeanGirlsRunit Love her downnnnnnn #NewYorkSā #YKTFV,ā Minaj captioned the post.
In a second post, she and Rihanna pose for a video, trying out different angles for the camera before Rihanna says, āCaribbean things, you know what Iām sayinā?āĀ While the two musicians havenāt released a song together in years, they previously collaborated on the 2011 track āFly,ā which appeared on Minajās hit albumĀ Pink Friday,Ā following Rihannaās āRaining Menā the year prior.Ā In a Facebook post from 2010 perĀ MTV News, Minaj called the āFlyā songstress āone of my absolute faves.ā
āI wanted to work with Rihanna for a long time. Iām very proud of her accomplishments; especially since she was born on an island like me,ā Minaj said then, referring to her Trinidadian heritage and Rihannaās Barbadian roots.Ā āThis song is a female empowerment song,ā she added. āBut then again, itās not specific to just women. It speaks about flying, soaring high in the face of every single solitary adversity that comes your way.ā
Rihanna, who recently celebrated theĀ five-year anniversaryĀ of her albumĀ ANTI, has been keeping busy with her wildly successful Fenty business and her new relationship with A$AP Rocky, 32, whom she was firstĀ rumored to be datingĀ in November.Ā While they worked together on her 2013 Diamonds World Tour, with A$AP Rocky opening for her U.S. tour dates, and have been close friends for years, the two didnāt make their relationship official until this year.
A$AP RockyĀ called his girlfriend āthe love of my lifeāĀ and āmy ladyā forĀ GQās June/July 2021 cover story, telling the magazine itās āso much betterā to be in a relationship.Ā āSo much better when you got āthe One.ā She amounts to probably, like, a million of the other ones,ā he explained.Ā A sourceĀ told PEOPLEĀ in August that the couple āevolvedā from being friends to entering a āsolid romance.āĀ āThey already knew and respected each other and it has just grown from there,ā a music source said, explaining that their friendship gave them āa great foundation.āāThey loved to laugh and have a blast together before they even dated,ā the source added. āAll of that makes for a solid romance now.ā