The PEOPLE’s POP STAR

A TITAN of MUSIC, a MOTHER of two, a self-made MOGUL, and the newly minted FACE of DIOR J’ADORE—20 years since her first chart-topping single, RIHANNA just might have MANIFESTED her DREAM LIFE

Story by LYNETTE NYLANDER

It’s just past 4:30 in the morning, and Rihanna lets out a hearty laugh. Settled in a swivel chair in the living room of a dimly lit penthouse suite in a downtown Manhattan hotel, she is telling me about a game she and A$AP Rocky, her partner of five years and the father of her two children, invented at the end of a long road trip they took during the height of Covid. They called it Mickey Mouse, she explains, “because we were like, we’re going to take walks for hours. And every time, we would get these nutcrackers from Harlem, and we would say, ‘Every time we see a rat, we got to take a shot.’ ” She clarifies: “Not a shot. A sip of the nutcracker. That’s like…

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Harper's Bazaar (Digital) - 1 Issue, March 2025

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