Rihanna and Asap reportedly named their baby boy ‘RZA Athelston Mayers’

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The name of Rihanna's baby son can finally be revealed after she kept it secret for nearly a year.

DailyMail.com has exclusive obtained a copy of the little boy's certificate of live birth, revealing he is named RZA Athelston Mayers.

The child, whom the 35-year-old pop superstar shares with her partner A$AP Rocky, was apparently named in honor of the producer and rapper RZA, the leader of the Wu-Tang Clan.

Rihanna appears to have hinted at her son's name following his birth on May 13 of last year, as she has worn clothing repping Wu-Tang Clan multiple times since giving birth.

Fans had recently speculated that the little boy might have been named Noah, but there were few indications of his true name.


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Notably, the certificate of live birth indicates that RZA was given his father's middle name of Athelston.

However, Rocky's middle name has previously been listed by multiple outlets as 'Athelaston.'

The certificate of live birth also indicates that RZA was born at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles.

One of Rihanna's recent hints about her son's secret name was on April 5, when she was seen carrying the beaming boy while wearing a baggy black Wu-Tang Clan top as she was seen leaving a meal at Giorgio Baldi in Santa Monica.

The Umbrella singer wasn't particularly subtle on August 12 of last year, nearly three months after she gave birth, when she stepped out in New York City in a baggy white RZA T-shirt.

The extent of Rihanna's fandom for RZA and the rest of the Wu-Tang Clan isn't totally clear.

Her partner Rocky is definitely a fan, though, as he previously collaborated with Raekwon from the rap group on the 2015 song Fly International Luxurious Art.

A$AP Mob, the collective that Rocky belongs to, also earned comparisons to the legendarily hip hop group early in its existence.

Like Wu-Tang, it features a string of high-profile core members, along with peripheral members who are featured less frequently.

RZA almost had an opportunity to collaborate with Rihanna, but on screen instead of in the studio.

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Back in 2008, the rapper told MTV News — which is now being shut down by Paramount Global after a 36-year run — that he hoped to film a remake of the 1985 kung-fu comedy The Last Dragon with Rihanna appearing in it.

She would have taken on the role of a video show host and singer, much like in the original film.

'That's the one I'm rooting for,' he said of the Barbados-born songstress. 'We're keeping that same concept of the girl being in the music business.'

However, in a fit of particularly bad taste, RZA later suggested to XXL in 2009 that Rihanna's ex Chris Brown should star with her in the film, even though he had beaten her severely enough to require a trip to the hospital just months earlier.

The film, which had already cast Samuel L. Jackson, never came to fruition.

It's unclear if Rihanna plans to be as secretive about her second child's name.

She revealed that she and Rocky were expecting again when she debuted a new baby bump during her show-stopping Super Bowl halftime performance on February 12 in Glendale, Arizona.

During her stunning appearance at the Met Gala with her boyfriend, Rihanna shared with ET that her latest pregnant was 'so different' from the first one.

'No cravings. Tons of nausea. Everything's different, but I'm enjoying it,' she explained.

She added that she was 'in love' with her littlest one. 'I'm obsessed and I don't even feel guilty about it,' she said.

Rihanna is being similarly tight-lipped about baby number two, and she has not yet revealed its sex.
Some fans thought she might have hinted that she was expecting a girl after she was seen looking at pink baby clothes last month.
However, she had also been spotted looking at girl clothes prior to welcome RZA, so she might have been shopping for someone else's baby.
Rihanna and A$AP Rocky have been friends and collaborators for more than a decade, and they even attended red-carpet events together in recent years, but it wasn't until late 2020 that they officially became a couple.
 

godofwine

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I'm happy for them. Being famous, you can name your kid anything you want. Being rich is pretty much the same, and they are both.

I wouldn't suggest it, but it's their choice. Good for them to be able to keep it secret for this long. Motherfuckers run they damn mouths too much
 

M.H.C.

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Crazy part is his teachers in the future probably won’t even get where his name comes from unless they’re much older at that time
 

Lurk Diggler

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Maybe I’m old fashioned,but I’d feel some type of way if OUR child’s mother wanted to name him after one of my “work” colleagues…
 

Diomedes3000

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I need to see if that baby came out with gold fangs lol and if he looks like RZA lol. Seriously I like the fact that ASAP and Riri admire RZA's work and character enough to name their son after him. We have to respect the art and we say nothing when Black folks name our children after cacs and other people who are not Black and don't represent our culture.
 

Coldchi

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Plenty of people have named their children after celebrities and whatnot....
I'm sure there are a million babies out here named "Beyonce"
 

blackbull1970

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They must be financially secure at a level that this kid will never be filling out a job application and sitting at an interview competing for a job with people named “John” and “Michael”.
 
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