RZA has opened up about how he felt upon finding out that Rihanna and A$AP Rocky named their first child after him.

DailyMail.com exclusively revealed back in May that the 35-year-old singer and 34-year-old Harlem-based rapper named their son after the Wu-Tang Clan rapper.

And now the 54-year-old rapper and filmmaker – born Robert Fitzgerald Diggs – has reacted to the couple naming their son RZA Athelston Mayers.

RZA recently told CNN: ‘RZA isn’t only a name, it’s a title.

‘So it’s an honor and I salute her and A$AP and their family. All the blessings in the world from me.’

Back in May DailyMail.com exclusive obtained a copy of the little boy’s certificate of live birth, revealing he is called RZA Athelston Mayers.

The child is thought to be named in honor of the producer and rapper RZA – the leader of the Wu-Tang Clan – the American hip hop collective formed in Staten Island in 1992.

Rihanna has hinted at the name by wearing clothing repping Wu-Tang Clan, which comprises RZA, GZA, Method Man, Raekwon, Ghostface Killah, Inspectah Deck, U-God, Masta Killa, and the late Ol’ Dirty B**tard, multiple times since giving birth.

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.’

Athelstan is a masculine name of English origin, meaning ‘noble stone.’

It is derived from the Old English æþele and stān, which translate to ‘noble’ and ‘stone,’ respectively. Athelstan is closely linked to Anglo-Saxon nobility, with the first king of England sharing this aristocratic moniker.

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