Rap legend Akon isn’t playing around when it comes to making a positive difference in the world. The hip-hop star has announced plans to build his own city named “Akon City” in Uganda, estimated to cost $6 billion. Akon Presents Akon City Build Plans The exciting news follows the decision by Ugandan government to allocate […]
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Every so often over the past few years, Rihanna says something or writes something on social media that gets fans excited about the possibility of new music. Now she has made yet another comment that suggests new music could be on the way soon.
Rihanna’s most recent album, 2016’s Anti, recently celebrated its fifth anniversary, a milestone that Rihanna observed on social media. Rihanna shared a fan-made video that showed off some clips from the Anti era as well as a recent tweet from Chart Data, which notes, “@rihanna’s ‘ANTI’ has now spent 5 full years on the Billboard 200. First album by a black female artist to reach this milestone in the chart’s history.” In the comments, somebody suggested, “celebrate by releasing a song !!” Rihanna decided to get fans excited with her response: “I think I should [soon emoji].” She added, “just 1 tho lol.”
.@rihanna‘s ‘ANTI’ has now spent 5 full years on the Billboard 200. First album by a black female artist to reach this milestone in the chart’s history.
— chart data (@chartdata) March 23, 2021
Rihanna trends on Twitter after saying she might release a new song soon:
“I think I should
…. just 1 tho lol” pic.twitter.com/8jm3vvwv8R
— Pop Crave (@PopCrave) March 25, 2021
There’s hope for new Rihanna beyond this. Back in December, she suggested that she wanted to devote some serious energy to her music in 2021, saying, “2021 is a little unknown for everybody and nobody is sure what restrictions there are going to be. My creativity is within my control, though, and I want to take my music and my brands to a different level.”
“Diamonds” has proven to be one of the biggest hits of Rihanna’s career, but it almost wasn’t her song at all. In fact, Eminem actually recorded a version of it before she did, according to the song’s co-producer, Benny Blanco.
Speaking about the track with Apple Music’s Zane Lowe, Blanco revealed that he originally intended the song to be for Kanye West or Lana Del Rey:
“We wanted it to be a Kanye song or a Lana Del Ray song, I remember, at first. And we were like, ‘OK, yeah, cool, let’s do that.’ And then, I remember [song co-writer] Sia, just writing. Sia, being Sia, she can write like 700 songs in one second. This was before Uber and she was like, ‘ I just called the car. It says it’s going to be 15 minutes. Pull up a beat.’ Pull up a beat…. melody, lyrics, everything. Done, OK. Then, we’re listening to it a few days later, and [song co-producer] Stargate’s like, ‘Yo, we’re giving this song to Rihanna. It’s going to go.’ And I was like, ‘I don’t know, man. Should we keep the beat for Kanye? I don’t know about it. I don’t know if it’s… I don’t know.’
He then went on to discuss how he learned that Eminem had actually recorded a version of the track before Rihanna did:
“Then I remember I had given a beat CD like a month earlier to Paul Rosenberg to give to Eminem. And apparently, Eminem had done a song to it, too, and I didn’t even know. […] Paul was like, ‘Man, Em had that beat on hold.’ I was like, ‘What? I didn’t even know.’ So, I’m sitting there, and then I finally am like, ‘You know what, Stargate?’ I let go. I said, ‘You guys know better. Let’s do it.’ She cut the song. First of all, the second she cut the song, they were completely right. I was like, ‘This is the best song I’ve ever done.’ And then, this is how life works, full circle: Kanye West does a remix to the song.”
Check out more from Blanco’s interview with Lowe below.
New York rapper Cardi B is ready and eager for the next level when it comes to her bank balance. The “WAP” star expressed her desire to follow in fellow female celebrity icon Rihanna’s footsteps and become a “billion-dollar woman.” Cardi B Wants To Be A Billionaire When asked about what she had planned next […]
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While the majority of Rihanna fans are waiting for a new album from the singer, as her last one arrived in 2016 with Anti, the long wait don’t mean that she’s spent the last five years doing little to nothing. Rihanna has been hard at work building her Fenty empire, one that began in 2017 thanks to the launch of Fenty Beauty. The following year she would start her Savage X Fenty lingerie line and in 2019, her Fenty fashion house was officially born. After debuting Fenty Skin last year, Rihanna is preparing to bring a new line to her company, that being Fenty Hair.
According to Harper’s Bazaar, the singer filed a trademark application for Fenty Hair on March 3. The publication reports that the trademark looks to cover “everything from styling, straightening, relaxing and waving products, as well as hair color and even hair glitter.” The news comes after the singer decided to shut down her Fenty fashion house last month, one that was launched in collaboration with LVMH. Despite this, it was also announced last month ago that Savage X Fenty’s net worth reached $1 billion.
Can’t wait to be around the house in my fenty furnitures, fenty skin on, in my savageXfenty, doing my fenty hair , wearing fentyXpuma, while listening to absolutely NOTHING.
https://t.co/iPDwViiMVS
— a l e x (@dontgivafuck_) March 10, 2021
After hearing news of the new line, fans celebrated the news on Twitter and one support shared a great reaction to it. “Can’t wait to be around the house in my Fenty furniture, Fenty Skin on, in my Savage X Fenty, doing my Fenty Hair, wearing Fenty X Puma, while listening to absolutely NOTHING,” they said, throwing a slight jab at the singer’s yet-unreleased ninth album.
Fans of R&B superstar Rihanna have been hounding her for years to drop more new music. While the Grammy winner hasn’t made an album since 2016’s Anti, she did recently show she can still sing — thanks to some encouragement from her cousin. Rihanna Turns Up With The Fam Rihanna has been busy building a […]
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Music mogul Rihanna is moving on and centering her focus. Her Fenty maison, a fashion-centered term for a business house or firm, with luxury goods brand LVMH is reportedly closing. Rihanna’s Fenty House Closing While Rihanna’s Paris-based Fenty fashion house is closing, she and LVMH will be reportedly focusing their time on Fenty Beauty and […]
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Grammy-winning superstars Drake and Rihanna made everyone embrace their work, work, work five years ago today. The former couple blessed the entire world with their unforgettable “Work” classic and had everyone turning up. Rihanna + Drake’s Work 5-Year Anniversary Back in January 2016, RiRi and Drake finally hit the green light on their epic classic. […]
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West Coast rapper Game, SZA and Rihanna are doing serious soul searching right now. The music stars went to social media to speak on the tragic Nipsey Hussle slaying. The Los Angeles native penned an emotion-driven Instagram post Sunday on his close-knit Hussle bond and the rapper’s senseless slaying. Hate doing these types of posts…. […]
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