Stop the search because we’ve found the coolest baby alive, and it’s none other than Rihanna and A$AP Rocky’s firstborn: RZA Athelston Mayers.
What makes us say RZA is the coolest baby alive? Well, we could say it’s the fact that he is named after one of the most legendary rappers ever or that he landed his first Vogue cover before his first birthday, but we would be lying. The reason is much simpler than that, and it all goes back to his very first word, which Rihanna just revealed in a new Interview cover story.
For many babies, their first word would be some variation on “mama” and “dada,” but RZA is not a regular baby; he’s a cool baby, so, as Rihanna just shared, his first word was actually “hey.”
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RZA’s first word might seem like the epitome of nonchalance — which it kind of is — but Rihanna actually told the full backstory behind the anecdote while speaking to her former stylist Mel Ottenberg for her Interview cover story, and it makes all the sense. “I used to try to get his attention all the time, and I would say, ‘Hey, hey, hey.’ And one day, he said it back to me in the same melody, and I kept singing it, and he kept following it over and over again,” the singer and beauty mogul explained.
As noted by the BBC, babies’ first words “tend to be things they experience regularly in their environment,” so it would make sense that little RZA would try to mimic his mom’s mannerisms — but the extra context doesn’t take away from the fact that “hey” is an elite first word.
In her interview, Rihanna further opened up about her kids — she and Rocky welcomed RZA in May 2022 and Riot Rose in August 2023 — and her relationship with them. While we still don’t know Riot’s first word (because he’s likely not even talking right now, given that he is still only six-ish months old), we do know Rih likes to spend her time “getting the kids dressed to death.”