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Can I just say? I’m really enjoying the consistency of reporting around Rihanna and Drake. The public personas are already well-known: Rihanna has been cast as the vampy man-eater and Drake has been cast as sensitive soul, the Nice Guy trying to win his dream girl. But sources have been saying for months now that Drake and Rihanna are a thing. Not super-official “DATING,” but hooking up with regularity. And then Drake was cast as Rihanna’s beck-and-call boy, the one who would drop everything to run to her side at a moment’s notice. And now? How do we define Rihanna and Drake post-VMAs?

Looks like Drake’s long game has paid off. After years of teasing fans about their close relationship, Drake and Rihanna are “definitely a couple,” a source close to Rihanna tells ET.

“They are fully dating,” the source says. “No one really knows how long they have been ‘official’ — they just decided to let it become a thing instead of hiding it from everyone. They’re happy.”

The pair flew to Miami, Florida, on Monday night, the source adds, where Drake has scheduled shows at the AmericanAirlines Arena on Tuesday and Wednesday night as part of his Summer Sixteen Tour.

Drake, 29, and Rihanna, 28, have definitely been spending plenty of quality time together recently. On Monday night, prior to their flight, the superstars stepped out for a dinner date at Nobu in New York City. An eyewitness tells ET that Rihanna stayed at Drake’s hotel overnight on Sunday after winning the Michael Jackson Video Vanguard Award at the MTV Video Music Awards.

[From ET]

Oh, now she’s traveling to his gigs? That is a big change. It feels like he mostly travels to see her. The idea that Rihanna is spending her down-time tagging along with Drake as his official girlfriend is interesting. I still think she’s a mercurial spirit, and if Drake is trying to “wife” her, she’ll likely go running for the hills. But maybe Drake knows that. Maybe he’s totally fine with whatever Rihanna is willing to give him. As ET says, his long game is paying off. LOL.

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