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Rihanna is the 21st century's most influential musician.
Jenny Gathright
Rihanna performs on stage at the BRIT Awards in 2016. Photo Illustration: Ian Gavan/Getty Images and Angela Hsieh/NPR hide caption
Rihanna performs on stage at the BRIT Awards in 2016.
It's not enough to make list after list. The Turning the Tables project seeks to suggest alternatives to the traditional popular music canon, and to do more than that, too: to stimulate conversation about how hierarchies emerge and endure. This year, Turning the Tables considers how women and non-binary artists are shaping music in our moment, from the pop mainstream to the sinecures of jazz and contemporary classical music. Our list of the 200 Greatest Songs By Women + offers a soundtrack to a new century. This series of essays takes on another task.
The 25 arguments writers make in these pieces challenge the usual definitions of influence. Some rethink the building legacies of popular artists; others celebrate those who create within subcultures, their innovations rippling outward over time. As always, women forge new pathways in sound; today, they also make waves under the surface of culture by confronting, in their music, the increased fluidity of "woman" itself. What is a woman? It's a timeless question on the surface, but one deeply engaged with whatever historical moment in which it is asked. Our 25 Most Influential Women Musicians of the 21 st Century illuminate its complexities. –Ann Powers
The cover of Rihanna 's 2016 album ANTI , created by artist Roy Natchum and commissioned by Rihanna, features the singer as a young child with a crown that's fallen down over her head so that it covers her eyes. She holds a balloon and red paint drips down over her from the top corner of the canvas. Overlaying the entire painting is a poem rendered in Braille, written by the poet Chloe Mitchell in collaboration with Rihanna and Natchum.
"I sometimes fear that I am misunderstood," it starts. "It is simply because what I want to say, what I need to say, won't be heard. Heard in a way I so rightfully deserve. What I choose to say is of so much substance that people just won't understand the depth of my message..."
Rihanna at the album artwork reveal for ANTI in 2015. Christopher Polk/Getty Images for WESTBURY ROAD ENTERTAINMENT LLC hide caption
Rihanna at the album artwork reveal for ANTI in 2015.
What does it mean to think of Rihanna, global superstar, as unheard? Her music has soundtracked most of this century, and that kind of ubiquity is easily taken for granted, like air. She released a full-length studio album every single year between 2005 and 2012, save for a one-year break in 2008. Of the 61 Rihanna songs on the Billboard Hot 100, 14 of them were No. 1 hits, and 31 of them were top 10 hits. No album has landed as many No. 1 songs on Billboard 's Dance Club Songs chart as ANTI , the album Rihanna released in 2016 after an unprecedented (for her) hiatus.
For most of my life, there has been a Rihanna single — or multiple Rihanna singles, or multiple songs defined by a Rihanna hook — playing prominently on Top 40 radio. So it's not enough to say Rihanna is the air. Rihanna shaped the texture and taste of the air by consistently doing what pop, at its very best, is supposed to do: taking disparate genres — rock, EDM, dancehall, trap and even dubstep — and turning them into something that makes sense to us, to everyone. If she's not seen as taking musical risks, it's only because so many of them paid off.
Rihanna is the most important pop artist of the century because of these contributions to music — and her music is beloved. It's still worth asking, however, how we as an audience can adequately love Rihanna the person.
When Rihanna received the Video Vanguard Award at the 2016 MTV Video Music Awards, Drake introduced her. His speech is memorable for his cute, unsurprising and ultimately distracting faux-confession: "She's someone I've been in love with since I was 22 years old." Equally instructive, though, are the parts of Drake's speech that were about Rihanna and not Drake. He mentioned her achievements in music but ultimately asserted that what was "most impressive" was Rihanna the person.
"She succeeds by doing something that no one in this music industry does, which is being herself," Drake said. "We love the music, which can change styles from album to album, we love the videos, which change their artistic vision from year to year, but most of all, we love the woman, who hasn't changed since day one."
Rihanna was gracious in her acceptance speech. She spoke about how her success is never just about her — it's about Barbados, her family, her fans and "women, black women." She also went on to thank the directors who went along with her "crazy ideas" — her subtle way of asserting what Drake did not: that she is pop music's vanguard, and that the work itself is where her prowess lies. Drake's speech focuses on the product : It was the music that changed styles and the videos that changed artistic vision. The only thing Rihanna did, according to this syntactical choice, was remain the same.
Rihanna performs during the 2016 MTV Video Music Awards. Michael Loccisano/Getty Images hide caption
Rihanna performs during the 2016 MTV Video Music Awards.
In her lead essay for the first iteration of Turning the Tables, a list of the 150 greatest albums by women in the pop era, Ann Powers notes that descriptions of greatness are often gendered: "Women are linked to the natural and the timeless, while men innovate and make history. Men build civilizations and create great works, while women animate spaces and connect people with their nurturing souls and alluring energy."
Those who claim to love Rihanna often say it's because of her soul, or her energy. Miranda July wrote about this phenomenon in her 2015 profile of the pop icon , where she describes how various people responded when she asked them about Rihanna: "A lesbian art history professor told me that she's 'the real deal.' Others used the words 'magic' and 'epic.' But when I tried to get anyone to pinpoint things she had said or done — particular interviews or incidents — everyone became lost in inarticulacy." When July told her Uber driver he was taking her to interview Rihanna, he responded, "You kidding? That's my girl," he said. "I love her. She's so down-to-earth."
But after meeting Rihanna, words fail July, too. Her final observation of the star is about her soul: "Souls don't really care about good or bad, right or wrong — they're just true. Everlasting. It makes you sound dumb to talk about this stuff, which is why no one could tell me exactly what it was about Rihanna. But millions of fans don't seem to need it explained to them. A soul just knows a soul."
"My understanding, from the moment she sat down, was that we were in love," July continues. It is a bold presumption of emotional access.
In a 2012 profile for GQ , Jay Bulger says Rihanna comes across as more authentic than her peers: "She sometimes gets grouped with theatrical pop stars like Katy Perry, Lady Gaga, and Nicki Minaj. But those are one-woman masquerade balls, their real selves hidden behind the next costume change. Rihanna, on the other hand, comes off as wild, weird, unfiltered, a little unhinged, which just makes everyone else go all unhinged."
The scholar Esther L. Jones has argued that as Rihanna established more and more narrative authority over her public image, she began to author a woman "simultaneously ordinary and exceptional, intimate and distant, known and inaccessible." Her social media feeds exemplify this: She promotes her wildly successful global fashion brands, but she also loves to post memes . For MTV News, Doreen St. Felix wrote that "a cultivation of lifestyle — her trips back home to Barbados, her tattoos, her laughter, her love of family, her social media presence — in the moment that every other person of her caliber is trying out reclusivity, and the secondary group is trying out diva-hood, makes Rihanna the last rock star."
It matters that Rihanna comes across as genuine, that her sense of self appears unshaken by celebrity , that she feels accessible to her fans. But this, as Jones and St. Felix are getting at, is not a persona that occurs without effort. Rihanna has been performing what it means to be in the thick of things — not above them, not outside looking in, not past them — for her whole career. That takes emotional and intellectual work, especially when you consider — as Jones does in her essay "'What's My Name?': Reading Rihanna's Autobiographical Acts" — that the public-private distinction Rihanna had spent years cultivating was shattered in 2009, when Rihanna's then-boyfriend Chris Brown physically assaulted her just ahead of the Grammys and the photo evidence spread across the Internet.
To really love Rihanna, one must respect that what we so often find lovable about her — her so-called relatability, the way she's able to de-emphasize the significant social and artistic distance between herself and her fans — is also her work.
"We Found Love," released two-and-a-half years after Chris Brown attacked Rihanna, is classic dance pop with an edge. It's meant to sound like joy, but the lyrics are vague enough to account for a whole range of human feeling. In the video, Rihanna chooses darkness. It's about two people who are not good for each other. There are fights that look unhealthy. There are plenty of drugs. It starts with an opening monologue about a relationship gone wrong. "When it's over, and it's gone," the English actress Agyness Deyn reads, "you almost wish that you could have all that bad stuff back so that you could have the good."
In a New Yorker profile, director Melina Matsoukas says it was completely unintentional that Rihanna's on-screen partner in the video looked eerily like Chris Brown — lightskinned, blonde. But she says the plot took inspiration from "[her] terrible love life and obviously [Rihanna's] terrible love life and every woman's terrible love life."
Matsoukas also told The New Yorker 's Alexis Okeowo that Rihanna was on board: "She was open to taking it there ... and with being honest and showing what life really is."
Rihanna had been taking it there for a while. "Russian Roulette," the lead single from her 2009 album Rated R , is about love with life or death stakes, with a video whose imagery comes a bit too close for comfort to police reports from Chris Brown's physical assault of her. Brown's assault of Rihanna took place in a car. A speeding car appears in the video multiple times; at once point, it hurtles towards a standing Rihanna.
When asked about the demand that she be a role model, Rihanna told Vogue : "That title was put on me when I was just finding my way, making mistakes in front of the world. I didn't think it was fair." The videos for "We Found Love" and "Russian Roulette" are not about looking back on hard moments that you've gotten over. They're about being in the messy present. It's not clear that this is what people are talking about when they call Rihanna "down-to-earth," but this too is evidence of the work of being real — dealing with patriarchy and racism and making art through it.
In the video for "S&M," which Matsoukas also directed, Rihanna wears a dress made of newsprint. She's immobile, bound up in plastic wrap as her body's literally covered in media commentary. "Rihanna's 'enjoyment' of the public flagellation with words and accusations is her attempt to speak back to the larger forces of dominance and power, forces that uphold Chris Brown's assault on her by prolonging it for their own entertainment and profit," writes scholar Donna Aza Weir-Soley in the paper "From 'F Love' to 'He Is the One'?: Rihanna, Chris Brown and the Danger of Traumatic Bonding."
As for Rihanna, she told Spin about the song: "I don't think of it in a sexual way, I'm thinking metaphorically ... People are going to talk about you, you can't stop that. You just have to be that strong person and know who you are so that stuff just bounces off."
On the album Unapologetic , which came out as rumors of Rihanna and Chris Brown's romantic reunion swirled ( they were later confirmed ), critic Jessica Hopper wrote for Pitchfork: "She's quite a distance from the tidy narrative we'd like, the one where she's learned from her pain and is back to doing diva triumph club stomp in the shadow of Beyoncé. Unapologetic rubs our faces in the inconvenient messy truth of Rihanna's life which, even if it were done well, would be hard to celebrate as a success."
But Unapologetic was also home to " Pour It Up ," the song and video in which Rihanna plays both the dancer and the client in a strip club. It's a meditation on financial independence and an assertion of control.
Rihanna's realness is not just about her carefree Instagram posts, or her habit of taking wine to-go . Her realness is popular art that cuts to the hard questions. She stretched the boundaries of genre, of course, but she also demanded that her vast audience grapple with the complexity of her inner life — both when it was empowering and when it was difficult. The worry that often accompanies this kind of bravery is that it won't be legible to your audience — or that you'll be misunderstood.
Last year, Jamila Woods , another artist who thinks a lot about authorial control, told me she was thinking about something Sonia Sanchez said: "I shall become, I shall become a collector of me. And put meat on my soul."
When your ears are always burning, I imagine it must be important to write against the stories you believe others are telling about you. "Sometimes a person looks at me and sees dollars. They see numbers and they see a product," Rihanna told GQ in that same 2012 profile. "I look at me and see art. If I didn't like what I was doing, then I would say I was committing slavery."
My favorite Rihanna moment is the line in "B**** Better Have My Money" where she sings, "Turn up to Rihanna while the whole club f****** wasted." It's an acknowledgement that she has the privilege of living in the sonic landscape she created herself — that she is a collector of herself. That line is delivered in the archetypical "Rihanna voice," which is, as Jayson Greene argued for Pitchfork , the most influential vocal of the past decade in pop.
"Umbrella" was the song that showed me all that a single note, sung on "eh," could contain. Rihanna sings the word "uuhm-buh-rella" like she invented it: unafraid of emphasis, letting each part of the word travel into the next. Her voice is so engaging that on "Live Your Life," which came out a year later in 2008, when she sings "live your life" all on the same D, then hovers around the neighborhood of that D for the majority of the hook, it doesn't feel dumb or boring at all.
Greene wrote of the title lyric in "What's My Name": "Who knows how many dozens of times Rihanna practiced that vocal take until she had distilled all of those competing emotions — pleading and playful, weary and sensual, even a little mocking — into three goddamn syllables, looping perfectly."
I love Rihanna's voice mostly because I have always heard within it the feeling of mustering, an acknowledgement that being comfortable in our skin is possible with intention and effort. Apparently, she wears a chain with the word "Savage" on her neck, or at least she did for that Vogue interview. "Savage is really about taking complete ownership of how you feel and the choices you make," she says. "Basically making sure everybody knows the ball is in your court."
ANTI is this hard-fought confidence embodied. There's confidence, of course, in the lyrics (see: "Sex With Me" and "Needed Me"). But there's also confidence in the delivery: Rihanna stretches her voice to its breaking point on songs like "Higher" and "Love on the Brain," letting it crack in ways we haven't heard before, or linger in falsetto for longer than we're used to. In moments like this, when she takes the vocal template she designed to uncharted places, Rihanna becomes, according to Greene, "both the vandal and the monument."
The question I asked was about whether Rihanna's audience has ever adequately loved her — whether we've given her the kind of love that respects both what she's created and all the labor that went into creating it. But the answer Rihanna gives, through ANTI , is that Rihanna probably doesn't care about the question to begin with.
In a promotional video for ANTI , Rihanna is given a crown from a child who we can only assume is that same child on the album cover, a young Rihanna. The whole video leads up to this moment, when Rihanna takes the crown and places it on her head. The moment is a lesson: You can wait — wait for ANTI to get the Grammy it deserved, wait for the world to give the genius of your work its due — or you can crown yourself.
In 2005, 17-year-old Robyn Rihanna Fenty broke onto the music scene with the release of the smash hit "Pon de Replay." Since then, the world has watched her grow into one of the most successful women on the planet. According to Forbes , Rihanna became the world's richest female musician in 2019, a result of her success with music and makeup, along with becoming "the first black woman in charge of a major luxury fashion house."
Yet, despite being so successful and popular, Rihanna has managed to keep her private life private for the most part. Though many fans are aware of her story during her rise to fame, her life prior to that is not as well known. Perhaps that's because information about the hitmaker's childhood in Barbados is not freely available, or because Rihanna is protective of her family and her secrets.
Whatever the reason, there's an interesting story there. Even if Rihanna makes her success look easy, it was anything but: she grew up in less than ideal conditions and faced more than her fair share of struggles, but it was largely because of her difficult past that she became the person she is today. Here is the tragic, real-life story of Rihanna .
Rihanna remembers growing up in Barbados as being "just a little island girl riding bikes, running around barefoot and flying kites in the cemetery," but her childhood home wasn't as free. Her father's drinking problems would lead to tense moments. "Fridays would be scary because he would come home drunk," she told Rolling Stone in 2011. "He'd get paid, and half of it would go toward alcohol. He'd walk in the door, and it was all eyes on him."
The future pop star could feel the temperature in the house go up whenever domestic violence was around the corner, previously telling ABC News , "[My parents] had a very abusive relationship. My dad was the abuser. [He hit her] on numerous accounts." She added, "I don't want to say normal, but it wasn't a surprise when it happened. She never went to the hospital ... Domestic violence is not something that people want anybody to know."
Though her mother was the primary victim of her father's outbursts, Rihanna recalled a time when she was punished for wanting to stay at the beach 10 minutes longer. "He slapped me so hard," she revealed to Rolling Stone . "I ran home with his handprint on me. I couldn't believe it. My mother saw my face, how traumatized I was. You know how, when you know you did something wrong, and you deserve to get beat? This was out of nowhere."
Rihanna is a musician first, but she's a powerful business woman, as well. As noted by Rolling Stone , "She's had endorsement deals with Nike, Gucci, CoverGirl and Clinique, not to mention her own scent, Reb'l Fleur." Her upbringing as the oldest child in the family made her staunchly independent, and her father helped mold her into the woman she would become. "He taught me how to fish, how to swim, how to run, how to ride," the singer-songwriter told the media outlet. "He really toughened me up."
When she was young, Rihanna's father sold clothes on the street or out of his car to make a living. Whether through want or necessity, she would sometimes join him. "She used to sell stuff on the side of the street like I did," Rihanna's dad, Ronald Fenty, said in a 2011 interview with The Sun . "She'd come outside of the store and put up a rack and sell hats and belts and scarves ... She would also buy sweets, put them in packages and take them to school to sell to her friends for a profit." It was that entrepreneurial spirit that had Rihanna's father thinking she would end up in business. In the end, he was right, in a way.
Addiction sadly took a substantial toll on this celeb's early life , when drugs planted their hooks in Rihanna's father and ran havoc through her family home. "My family broke up because of his addiction," she tearfully told Oprah Winfrey on Oprah's Next Chapter . According to the Mirror , dad Ronald Fenty bought drugs even when money and food in the house were low. "Even as a toddler, I learned that my mum and dad would argue when there was foil paper in the ashtray," Rihanna said, referring to drug packaging or freebasing paraphernalia.
When she was nine years old, Rihanna walked in on her dad smoking crack, as per Rolling Stone . "I did have a drug problem and Robyn did walk in and see me taking drugs in our house," Ronald told The Sun . "She was just a little kid and it made her look at me, and other things, differently. Around the same time we were walking down the street with the kids and there was a guy sleeping on the sidewalk. Her mother said to Robyn, 'Your dad is going to end up like that.' I did not want my children to see me sleeping on the sidewalk so I started making the changes."
Rihanna's father would eventually beat his addiction, but it cost him his marriage and damaged his relationship with his children. "I had to give up drugs for my family," he said. "I still kind of lost them."
Rihanna is loved and admired around the world, but she didn't always feel loved as a child in Barbados. Her father was a descendant of a poor Irish community , the members of which were often referred to by derogatory names . Rihanna's last name, Fenty, was a common surname for this group of people. The future singer-songwriter also had a light skin shade, and this combination led to teasing at school.
"I was cultured in a very 'black' way," Rihanna said in a 2009 Allure interview. "But when I got to school, I'm being called 'white' ... They would look at me, and they would curse me out. I didn't understand." The future celeb didn't take it lightly, and she fought back , some times with her fists. "I got teased my entire school life," she said to Glamour . "What they were picking on I don't even understand. It was my skin color. Then when I got older, it was about my breasts."
The constant bullying she faced, however, helped shape her and prepare her for a life in the limelight, a life that can be cruel and unforgiving. "This thick skin has been developing since my first day at school," Rihanna told Harper's Bazaar in 2015. "It didn't happen after fame; I couldn't survive fame if I didn't already have it. So sometimes the toughest thing in life is to be vulnerable."
With Rihanna's father battling his own demons and the fights at home increasing, the future celeb's mental health understandably suffered . Though the trouble at home was kept private, the young Rihanna began to separate herself from the other kids at school. According to Rolling Stone , "She wouldn't talk, wouldn't even cry." It was around this time that the future singer's grades slipped along with her health.
"She had always been a straight-A student, but she started to struggle," Rihanna's mother, Monica Braithwaite, said. "She would suffer from these terrible headaches. She had to get CT scans." The headaches went on from the age of eight until Rihanna was 14, but the doctors had no answers for the excruciating migraine-like attacks. Initially, they believed that Rihanna may have a tumor of some sort, with the singer herself once saying , "It was that intense." However, the test results always came back negative.
It wasn't until her parents separated and the fighting stopped that the headaches finally went away. Rihanna believes that the pain was caused by the emotional stress of the arguing and domestic abuse.
In February 2009, the world was rocked by reports that Chris Brown had abused then-girlfriend Rihanna . TMZ later released photos of her battered face, and the abused singer became fodder for nearly every news outlet in the U.S., causing Rihanna to retreat from the public eye for months.
In her isolation, however, she began to worry about Brown, despite her being the victim. "If I feel this depressed , then what is he going through?" Rihanna later explained to ABC News . "I had to protect him. I thought that I had to let him know, don't do anything crazy. Like just hang in there ... The whole world hates him now. His fans, his career. He just, he lost me, I just need to let him know; don't do anything stupid." Eventually, the two reunited and Rihanna faced criticism for it.
For her part, Rihanna was disappointed because she'd made a promise to her younger self that she was "never going to date somebody like my dad" (via E! News ). She wasn't proud of her choice, but she had been overpowered by love. Fair or not, Rihanna found that her personal decisions had far-reaching consequences, and told ABC News , "It's completely normal to go back. It's not right. When I realized that my selfish decision for love could result in some young girl getting killed, I could not be easy with that part. I couldn't be held responsible for going back."
Many high-profile celebrities contend with rumors, from exaggerated tales to outright lies. For Rihanna, it seems that every single celebrity she talks to becomes the target of a reported relationship . While working on a Rolling Stone cover story, Rihanna happened to be in the same restaurant as Colin Farrell, someone she'd been rumored to be sending salacious texts. As Farrell left the restaurant, he stopped by the singer's table. "Our friends outside are gonna get some good mileage out of this," he jokingly said. "We're gonna be texting each other all f**king night!" The actor was right: the next morning, several tabloids suggested the two celebs ate dinner together and were romantically linked.
To make matters worse, rumors have sometimes come from within. After Rihanna was assaulted by Chris Brown, her father sold information to the press . "That was the first time," Rihanna later told Vogue in 2011 (via Billboard ). "My dad went to the press and just told them a bunch of lies. Because he hadn't talked to me after ... that whole thing." She added, "He never called to find out how I was doing, if I was alive, nothing ... He went straight to the press and got a check." That wouldn't be the last time either, as Ronald Fenty would later sell more gossip on his famous daughter. "It really makes me question what I have become to my father," Rihanna wondered. "Like, what do I even mean to him?"
After her challenges with Chris Brown, Rihanna found that she was spiralling into a dark place. She recalled on Oprah's Next Chapter that she was "resentful," "angry," and struggling to overcome it all. When asked how she finally got through it, Rihanna said, "[I] repaired my relationship with dad." The singer had grown apart from her father after her parents' divorce years earlier. "I was so angry at him," she explained, adding, "I couldn't separate him as husband from him as a father."
After the reconciliation, however, Rihanna and Ronald Fenty continued butting heads. In some cases, it wasn't personal — it was business. According to CNN , Rihanna discovered that her father and his business partner, Moses Perkins, were allegedly using her name and brand, Fenty, to earn money. The singer and her representatives reportedly asked the pair repeatedly "to cease and desist all activity and efforts to exploit Rihanna's name and the goodwill associated with the Fenty brand." When that failed, they filed a lawsuit.
According to the 2019 suit, Rihanna's father reportedly launched a production and talent company called Fenty Entertainment in 2017, and negotiated 15 unauthorized Rihanna shows in Latin America, two at the Staples Center, and another at the T-Mobile Arena, all totaling nearly $15.5 million. He even reportedly attempted to use the Fenty brand to register a line of resort hotels. With the case set to move to a jury trial in June 2020, The Blast reports that it was later postponed due to the pandemic.
Rihanna was exposed to things in life much earlier than most. In fact, she saw and experienced things as a child that most people never do. By the time the singer-songwriter was 16 years old, her father had moved out and her mother had returned to work to support the family. This left the young teenager at home to look after younger brother Rajad. Though it caused Rihanna to grow up quickly, she looks back at these times fondly, telling Elle that it was "probably the best summer I ever had."
But it was more than one summer that she would act as caregiver. While Rihanna takes on much of this willingly, such as gifting her mother a massive mansion , some of it has been imposed upon her. In 2008, she was forced to send her father home from her U.S. tour for drunken behavior. According to the Daily Mail , in order to save her father from going to jail for a California arrest, Rihanna agreed to pay $58,000 for him to enter a Malibu rehab program in 2013. And while speaking with Rolling Stone , Rihanna revealed that her dad once sent her a text with nothing but prices for furniture that he wanted to buy for his house. "It's fine," she explained. "I'll give my father anything. It's not something that's hard for me to help him with. It's just, like — damn, Dad. Hi."
Being an international superstar is not easy (or so we assume). It comes with a lack of privacy and constant rumors, as well as incessant scrutiny, something of which Rihanna is, unfortunately, an expert. Rihanna has been criticized for a variety of reasons, a major one being her music. The last full album Rihanna released was "Anti" in 2016. It went number one on the Billboard 200 , and gave us hits like "Work" and "Needed Me." The album was a massive hit, and Rihanna sees it as her greatest work to date, but that does not mean fans are satisfied. Fans want more music from the star, and they are not shy about letting her know, especially on social media.
After posting a photo to Instagram stating her New Year's resolution, one fan commented, "Resolution should be releasing the album," in reference to R9 , the appellation used for the forthcoming album from the singer. Rihanna is not one to let people get her down, though, and she replied, "this comment is sooo 2019. grow up" (via Complex ).
Criticism of the singer is not limited to music, though. In 2022, while arriving at an event, Rihanna was heckled by someone yelling , "You're late," to which the singer replied "No sh*t." Sigh. Fame is not for the faint of heart.
When you're famous, you can't go through a major life event without the world finding out. Even if you are a master at secret-keeping, eventually your business is made public. And for Rihanna, some of those major life events have tragically included heartbreak. The singer dated fellow musician and collaborator Drake on and off for several years. The couple delighted fans when they went from friends to partners, but the delight was short-lived, as the two ultimately split. The singer eventually told Vogue , "We don't have a friendship now, but we're not enemies either. It is what it is."
Drake isn't the only man Rihanna has dated publicly. For three years, the singer was with Hassan Jameel, a Saudi billionaire. Rihanna was focused on making the relationship work, sharing that she would clear her calendar for days at a time to be with Jameel, but unfortunately her efforts fell short as the two couldn't make their schedules work.
The news was especially saddening after reading the words she spoke to Vogue : "I'm actually in an exclusive relationship for quite some time, and it's going really well, so I'm happy." Even celebrities are not immune to heartbreak.
Although Rihanna's had lots of tragedy in her life, she's also had lots of joy, like learning she's expecting a child with her boyfriend A$AP Rocky. In 2022, the singer made headlines for her pregnancy, particularly her bold style. "When I found out I was pregnant, I thought to myself, there's no way I'm going to go shopping in the maternity aisle. I'm sorry – it's too much fun to get dressed up," she told Vogue . She also told the magazine, "I just feel like I can do any part of life by his side," in reference to A$AP Rocky.
But because she is in the spotlight, no good part of her life can come without something overshadowing it. One shadow came in the form of a theory that Rihanna is faking her pregnancy. Tweets and YouTube videos have documented the outlandish theory, but the singer has not responded to the rumors. Who can blame her, though? There's only so much time in the day.
Another rumor came at the hands of an influencer who wrongfully claimed that A$AP Rocky was cheating on Rihanna. Although Rihanna did not respond to those rumors either, the woman he was supposedly cheating with, designer Amina Muaddi, responded on Twitter, saying , "I initially assumed that this fake gossip – fabricated with such malicious intent – would not be taken seriously," adding, "Therefore I have to speak up as this is ... related to people I have a great amount of respect and affection for."
In 2017, Rihanna sadly lost her cousin. Tavon Kaiseen Alleyne was living in Barbados and was shot one evening near his house. Rihanna and her cousin were close, as she documented on social media. After learning of his death, she took to Instagram to pay tribute, sharing "can't believe it was just last night that I held you in my arms! never thought that would be the last time I felt the warmth in your body!!! Love you always man."
The singer attended his funeral and shared photos on social media. "Sleep well buddy..we are at peace knowing you're in a better place than we are. We will always have a void without you, but we will never stop loving you ... Hope you were happy with your going away celebration today," she said, as reported by Vibe.
The singer used the harrowing event to speak out against gun violence, using the hashtag #EndGunViolence in her first tribute post.
Did you know that singer-songwriter Rihanna won her High School beauty pageant when she was 16 years old?
Rihanna is one of the world’s most influential female singer-songwriters of the 21 st century.
Her elaborate live shows and catchy tunes have people of all ages dancing and singing along.
But do you know how it started for Rihanna? Or where she comes from?
Here are 45 fabulous facts about Rihanna that you should know.
Robyn Rihanna Fenty is 36 years old. She was born on February 20 , 1988. Her star sign Pieces, meaning she is dreamy and romantic.
Rihanna was born in Saint Michael, Barbados, and grew up in Bridgetown, Barbados.
Her father is Irish-Barbadian, and her mother is Afro-Guyanese. Her parents divorced when she was just 14 years old.
She has two biological brothers, two half-sisters, and a half-brother.
RiRi attended army cadets when she was at school, and her drill sergeant was singer Shontelle.
At age 15, she won a talent show by singing “Hero” by Mariah Carey.
Rihanna grew up listening to reggae music and started to study music at school.
When Rihanna was 16, she won her high school beauty pageant.
In 2003 alongside two classmates, she formed a girl band in Barbados .
American record producer Evan Rogers discovered the trio and invited them for an audition.
Rihanna stood out as being the powerful voice, so she was invited for a second audition.
Rogers invited Rihanna to record some sample tapes, including “Pon de Replay” in his studio in the US.
Rihanna’s sample tapes were sent to Def Jam Records, and it was Jay-Z who listened and signed her.
Rihanna’s debut album “Music of the Sun” was released in August 2005, which reached number 10 on the Billboard 200 list, and over two million copies were sold worldwide.
On Gwen Stefani’s “Harajuku Lover” tour in 2005 , Rihanna was her opening act.
In August 2006 , she had her first acting role in Bring it On: All or nothing .
Her second album, “A Girl like Me,” was released just a year after her debut in April 2006.
At the Barbados Music Awards in 2006, Rihanna won two awards; Best New Artist and Best Female Artist of the Year.
In 2006 Rihanna created the Believe Foundation, which was designed to help terminally ill children.
Her release of S.O.S in 2006 was her first number-one single on the US Billboard Hot 100.
RiRi released her album “Good Girl Gone Bad” in 2007.
Good Girl Gone Bad was her redefining album, which exposed her fierce, strong personality through an R&B-inspired album.
She was ranked number eight on Maxim’s Hot 100 Women list in 2007.
In 2007 Rihanna was given the honorary title of “Ambassador for Culture and Youth” for Barbados.
In 2008 the former president of Barbados created “Rihanna Day,” which is held every February 22 .
Following the 2008 release of her single “Umbrella,” she had to ban umbrellas being brought to her concerts in fear of spectators injuring others.
Rihanna won her first Grammy Award for her hit with Jay-Z, “Umbrella.”
In 2008 Rihanna set up a series of free concerts called “A Girl’s Night Out,” any money earned by sponsors was donated to her charity Believe Foundation.
In September 2009, Rihanna appeared on the cover of Italian Vogue Magazine as part of their “Extreme Couture” edition.
In 2011 her hit “S&M” became her tenth number-one single to get onto the Billboard list.
At age 23, she was the youngest artist to have had ten number ones featured on Billboard.
For two consecutive years, 2011-2012, Rihanna won International Female Solo Artist at the BRIT Awards.
Rihanna has a Maltese poodle cross called Oliver, who she adopted in 2015.
By 2016 Rihanna had headlined six tours and released eight studio albums.
Rihanna launched her lingerie line “Savage X Fenty” in 2018 , which was designed to offer a wide range of lingerie to all skin colors and body sizes.
In 2018 Rihanna purchased a $7 million house in West London, England.
In March 2018, Snapchat issued an apology to Rihanna following an ad campaign in a “would you rather” game, asking users would they rather “slap Rihanna” or “punch Chris Brown.”
Rihanna has had a minimum of six Guinness World Records. On February 25 , 2020, Rihanna received a Guinness World Record for being the most tracked artist on Songkick, with 3,867,117 followers.
In May 2019, Fenty fashion was launched under Louis Vuitton, which made Rihanna the first woman of color to have a luxury fashion brand.
Rihanna is 5′ 7″ tall (1.73 meters).
Rihanna played Marion Crane in Bates Motel , the character was originally portrayed by Janet Leigh in the 1960 Hitchcock film Psycho .
Rihanna has had more than 75,000,000 downloads, making her the best-selling digital download artist of all time.
She has also earned over 30 top-ten songs in the UK and Australia, making her the only artist in the 21 st century to achieve this feat so far.
Across the globe, there are a total of eight wax figures of Rihanna at the Madame Tussauds museums.
Rihanna has 25 known tattoos , she got her first one back in 2006, which was a musical note on her foot.
Rihanna is an idol and inspiration for any woman across the globe.
Her successful career in singing and songwriting has expanded into acting and fashion.
Rihanna has changed lives around the world in a positive way and given hope to many people, especially to those who are part of her charity.
Her songs are catchy, and her styles change with the seasons, and that’s what makes her one of the most successful female artists today.
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It is well known that fashion houses turn a healthier profit from selling things like perfume, make-up, and skincare than clothing. I see Rihanna ’s approach to marketing through the same lens. The musician was yesterday afternoon photographed exiting a blacked-out SUV, dressed in a vintage Pucell Scott jersey and Amiri camo pants with a pendulous crystal necklace draped around her neck, while her beauty firm’s new Gloss Bomb Stix was visibly clasped between her fingers.
The caption could have read: “You can purchase this Fenty lip treatment—and perhaps gain proximity to my lifestyle—but the Briony Raymond diamonds are all mine.” Rihanna’s collection of haute joaillerie is a method to maintain distance from just about everyone else, a not-so-subtle reminder that she is worth a billion dollars and can therefore slipstream between the high and low. When a reporter asked Rihanna how she was feeling at the 2023 Met Gala , she rubbed her fingers and replied: “ Expensive .” Fans love this sort of thing. She is a vessel for their own luxurious fantasies.
See also: the four Suzanne Code necklaces—including three 18-carat cross pendants—she wore to Paris Fashion Week with an AWGE skirt and a shearling bomber from The Attico; the elaborate Jean Paul Gaultier haute couture pearl choker she once wore with wide-legged denim and Puma sneakers for a casual dinner in Los Angeles; and the Christian Lacroix necklace that framed her bump when she announced her first pregnancy in 2022 in a Chanel puffer jacket and Vetements jeans. Rihanna knows that it is impossible for most people to recreate her style, and she understands how that might also be a good thing, because we all need something to aspire towards. Even if that’s a lip balm.
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Karrahbooo fans seem to think the artist is moving on from Concrete Boys after unfollowing members on social media.
It looks like Karrahbooo is no longer a Concrete Boy .
The “Running Late” rapper, who Lil Yachty once called the “First Lady” of the Concrete Boys rap collective he created, has been removed from the group’s Instagram bio. She’s also unfollowed Yachty and two other rappers in the collective: Camo! and Draft Day.
Fans appear to think KARRAHBOOO has left Concrete Boys after noticing she’s been taken out of the group’s IG bio. She did not perform alongside Concrete at Broccoli City Festival yesterday. This remains unconfirmed. https://t.co/xfKmQklukT pic.twitter.com/R3zVffmIVZ — Complex Music (@ComplexMusic) July 28, 2024
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Fans started to notice that something was amiss after realizing that Karrahbooo wasn’t at Broccoli City with the rest of Concrete Boys on Saturday, July 27. On her Instagram Stories, she reposted fans who were curious about her whereabouts.
@makespringhill @lilyachty’s @CONCRETE BOYS going up at @Broccoli City Fest 🔥 #lilyachty #concreteboys #broccolicityfestival #bcfest24 ♬ original sound - SpringHill
Lil Yachty and the Concrete Boys performing at Broccoli City Festival (minus KARRAHBOOO) 🥦 pic.twitter.com/geqRgV3J3A — Complex Music (@ComplexMusic) July 28, 2024
Just last November, Karrahbooo made Pigeons & Planes’ list of Best New Artists . Ever since her breakout On The Radar freestyle that October (in which the Concrete Boys surrounded her in support), she began making a name for herself with her unique, laid-back flow and distinctive personality.
Earlier this year, Karrahbooo appeared on Concrete Boys’ It’s Us Vol. 1 compilation album, having a starring role on “WHERE YO DADDY?” as well as contributing on songs like “NOT DA 2,” “HIT DIFF,” and “JEFF & LITA.”
With Karrabooo seemingly out of the picture, it appears as if there’s an open spot on Lil Yachty’s label.
Perhaps he’s considering signing Ian, the viral young rapper who went viral over the last few months because of the juxtaposition between his preppy appearance and gritty lyrics. Lil Yachty brought him out at Summer Jam a few weeks ago and just recently dropped a collaboration with him, “ Hate Me .”
Whatever the case may be, Lil Yachty will have to keep the collective's train rolling. In March, he announced the launch of Concrete Boys, also known as Concrete Rekordz, in a press release as his new venture with Quality Control.
"Yachty has always had profound vision since the day we met and to see him take his curatorial magic and expand it to discover and enhance other artists is exciting to me," said Quality Control Music COO and co-founder Kevin “Coach K” Lee in press materials.
“I’m excited to see Yachty step into the role of executive alongside being one of the most formidable creatives in the world with such an eye for talent," said QC CEO and co-founder Pierre “P” Thomas. "Karrahbooo is a star and they are all going to be the new wave of cool that can bring something different to the culture that is so badly needed.”
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The sweltering summer heat shows no signs of letting up. While some folks to like soak in the sunny goodness while it lasts, others simply want to chill from the comfort of their homes and put on a movie or two. These days, the streaming world is buzzing at full throttle. With a stream of new releases almost every week, it feels like there’s an endless option of movies waiting for audiences to binge. Keeping track of the latest might seem like a chore in itself, but we’ve got you covered.
Check out the top 10 most streamed movies in the US . Each title is accompanied by quick summaries to keep you in the know on what everyone’s watching. From an Oscar-winning historical epic to beloved animated flicks, get ready to catch up on the season’s hottest picks.
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Editor's Note: The Nielsen streaming data is delayed by four weeks, so this list reflects the top 10 from June 24 – June 30, 2024.
Platform: netflix | minutes watched: 190,000,000.
Director: Tim Johnson | Cast: Jim Parsons, Rihanna, Steve Martin, Matt Jones, Jennifer Lopez
The loveable yet awkward Boov race alien Oh (Parson) is in desperate search of a new home as he and his people flee their intergalactic enemies, the Gord. Seeking refuge on Earth, the Boov relocate humans to different cities and make themselves at home in their newfound shelters. Only one problem: Oh is always causing some trouble, and most of it’s unintentional. When Oh accidentally broadcasts Earth’s coordinates to the Gorg, Oh finds himself making a break for it. While he’s on the run, he encounters Tip (Rihanna), a spunky young girl on a journey to find her mom, Lucy. With the two going on the same path, Oh and Tip decide to team up and form an unlikely duo, setting the stage for the wild adventures and the heartwarming moments in Home .
After Earth becomes a new home for a clumsy alien species, an unlikely friendship forms between an adventurous girl and a banished alien. Their quest to locate her missing mother leads them on a comedic adventure across a wildly different Earth.
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Platform: peacock | minutes watched: 203,000,000.
Director: Mike Mitchell | Cast: Jack Black, Awkwafina, Bryan Cranston, James Hong, Viola Davis
Almost a decade after the last movie , the beloved Po (Black) returns to the screen with Kung Fu Panda 4 . As the Dragon Warrior, Po has been living up to his responsibilities. Together with his kick-butting crew, the unlikely kung fu master has butt heads with some of the deadliest villains and saves the village time after time again with his mad martial arts skills. But there’s only so much the Dragon Warrior can do, and the time has come for Po to put his abilities to rest. When destiny calls him to become the Spiritual Leader of the Valley of Peace, Po must embark on a new journey in his life. Of course, Po being Po, doesn’t have the clearest idea of what becoming a spiritual leader entails. That’s not even the hardest part - Po also needs to find someone to replace his position as Dragon Warrior. He better act fast, because word on the street is that a wicked, shapeshifting Chameleon (Davis) sorceress has her eyes on Po’s Staff of Wisdom.
After Po is tapped to become the Spiritual Leader of the Valley of Peace, he needs to find and train a new Dragon Warrior, while a wicked sorceress plans to re-summon all the master villains whom Po has vanquished to the spirit realm.
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Platform: netflix | minutes watched: 204,000,000.
Director: Aaron Horvath, Michael Jelenic | Cast: Chris Pratt, Anya Taylor-Joy, Charlie Day, Jack Black
Brace yourself on a wild adventure! Based on the hit Nintendo video game, Mario (Pratt) and Luigi (Day) go on a field trip beyond their wildest imagination in The Super Mario Bros. Movie . What started out as a regular day for these two Brooklyn plumbers takes a sharp detour when they’re sucked into a Warp Pipe and transported into the wacky Mushroom Kingdom . Not only are they stuck in this vivid realm, but Mario and Luigi are completely separated. Fortunately, they’re not alone. Along the way, Mario encounters Princess Peach (Taylor-Joy), ruler of the Mushroom Kingdom. Unfortunately, Luigi finds himself in the Dark Lands, ruled by the evil Koopa king Bowser (Black). Bowser seeks to marry the princess, but she won’t let him have it that easy. Angered by her refusal, Bowser imprisons Luigi. With the clock running, Mario and Peach must save Luigi from the evil clutches of Bowser before it’s too late.
A plumber named Mario travels through an underground labyrinth with his brother Luigi, trying to save a captured princess.
Platform: prime video | minutes watched: 208,000,000.
Director: Christopher Nolan | Cast: Cillian Murphy, Emily Blunt, Matt Damon, Robert Downey Jr., Florence Pugh
Adapted from Martin Sherwin and Kai Bird ’s Pulitzer Prize-winning book, “American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer”, Oppenheimer is a gripping true story about one scientist’s quest to innovation that leaves him on the questionable side of history . Ever since his university days, Dr. J. Robert Oppenheimer (Murphy) has shown great interest in the field of theoretical physics, a branch of science often undermined by practitioners due to its lack of application. However, Oppenheimer’s work eventually caught onto some very important people, particularly Gen. Leslie Groves (Damon) and Rear Admiral Lewis Strauss (Downey Jr.). As America is knee-deep in a nuclear arms race with the Soviet Union, Oppenheimer is entrusted with leading the Manhattan Project during World War II. What was supposed to be a remarkable step in his line of work slowly transforms into a politically charged endeavor, one that could get Oppenheimer in trouble due to his conflicting morals.
The story of American scientist, J. Robert Oppenheimer, and his role in the development of the atomic bomb.
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Platform: disney+ | minutes watched: 220,000,000.
Director: John Musker, Ron Clements | Cast: Auliʻi Cravalho, Dwayne Johnson, Rachel House
Nature is very much alive in Moana , with its endless sunshine, sparking blue waters, and the creatures that bring life and joy to the Polynesian island of Motunui. A long time ago, the inhabitants of Motunui worshiped the goddess of nature, Te Fiti, as a form of respect and gratitude. However, the shape-shifting demigod Maui stole Te Fiti’s heart and gave it to humans. Te Fiti, whose original form was a living island, suddenly disintegrates into nothingness. Unfortunately, Maui lost Te Fiti’s heart after he was attacked by the volcanic demon, Te Kā. A century later, Moana Waialiki (Cravalho), the descendant of a long line of ocean navigators, i s destined to find this heart and bring back pace to Te Fiti . With Motunui being on the brink of destruction, Moana must act swiftly before her home gets destroyed.
In ancient Polynesia, a young girl chosen by the ocean embarks on a daring voyage to save her island from a devastating curse. Alongside the demigod Maui, she navigates treacherous waters, battles mythological creatures, and discovers her true destiny as a master wayfinder.
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Platform: netflix | minutes watched: 223,000,000.
Director: Pierre Coffin, Kyle Balda | Cast: Sandra Bullock, Jon Hamm, Michael Keaton
Since the dawn of time, minions have been the ultimate sidekicks to history’s most notorious villains , from the mighty T-Rex to Napoleon himself. In Minions , three standout minions - Kevin, Stuart, and Bob - hit the road on a quest to find their next big boss. The trio ends up in London in the hands of Scarlet Overkill, the world’s first female supervillain, and her wacky inventor husband, Herb. But as it turns out, Scarlet has been hatching an all-out scheme to wipe out Minionkind. It’s up to these unlikely heroes to step up, save their fellow Minions, and stop Scarlet from pulling off the most despicable plot ever.
Platform: netflix | minutes watched: 254,000,000.
Director: Andy Muschietti | Cast: Ezra Miller, Sasha Calle, Michael Shannon, Ron Livingston, Maribel Verdú
Barry Allen (Miller), a.k.a. The Flash, is always zooming between saving the world and trying to live a normal life . But when a lightning bolt zaps him with the Speed Force, Barry is gifted with extraordinary powers With the best intentions, Barry races back in time to save his mom, but he accidentally creates a hero-free disaster of a world where General Zod is back and more menacing than ever. To clean up his mess, Barry turns to unlikely forces in The Flash , enlisting the help of a grizzled, retired Batman, a locked-up Kryptopnian, and even his younger, less experienced self.
Barry Allen uses his super speed to change the past, but his attempt to save his family creates a world without super heroes, forcing him to race for his life in order to save the future.
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Platform: disney+ | minutes watched: 498,000,000.
Director: Pete Docter | Cast: Amy Poehler, Phyllis Smith, Richard Kind, Bill Hader, Lewis Black
There’s nothing harder than being an 11-year-old girl, especially when your feelings are all over the place. Inside Out follows Riley Anderson’s emotion-filled ride as her family relocates from the snowy serenity of Minnesota to the foggy city of San Francisco. Riley’s not just leaving friends and familiar places - she’s leaving her entire world. On the outside, Riley looks indifferent to her parents, as if she’s built a wall to guard her feelings. But inside her head, things are far from normal. In Riley HQ, a motley crew of five emotions - Joy, Fear, Anger, Disgust, and Sadness - are in charge of managing her turbulent feelings. The move has thrown Riley into disarray, sending the emotions, especially Joy into panic mode. As the de facto cheerleader of the group, Joy is determined to keep things sunny and bright, even if it means pushing Sadness to the sidelines. But over time, Joy and the rest of the emotions learn happiness is only attainable once Riley accepts her sorrow.
After young Riley is uprooted from her Midwest life and moved to San Francisco, her emotions - Joy, Fear, Anger, Disgust, and Sadness - conflict on how best to navigate a new city, house, and school.
Platform: netflix | minutes watched: 694,000,000.
Director: Mouly Surya | Cast: Jessica Alba, Mark Webber, Tone Bell, Jake Weary, Gabriel Basso
Tough-as-nails Parker (Alba), a Special Forces operative, is called back home upon learning of her father’s unexpected death. Now in charge of the family bar, Parker traders her high-octane life aboard for the peacefulness of her sleepy town. When she’s not tending to the business, she’s reconnecting with old faces, like her ex-boyfriend-turned-sheriff Jesse (Webber) and his intimidating father, Senator Swann ( Anthony Michael Hall ). But as she digs into the circumstances of her father’s passing, Parker discovers a web of secrets and soon finds herself entangled in the crosshairs of a dangerous gang. Featuring full-throttle action sequences and a fierce female lead , Trigger Warning is a thrilling ride for anyone itching to see Alba take on corrupt politicians and ruthless arms dealers.
After taking over a small-town bar from her late grandfather, a former soldier discovers a web of illegal activities connected to the establishment. Her efforts to clean up lead her into a dangerous confrontation with powerful enemies, pushing her to leverage her military training in a fight for justice.
Platform: netflix | minutes watched: 902,000,000.
Director: Richard LaGravenese | Cast: Nicole Kidman, Zac Efron, Joey King
Zara Ford (King) is a complete hot mess in Family Affair . Not only is she still living under one roof with her mom, Brooke (Kidman), but she also works as a personal assistant to the high-maintenance movie star boss, Chris (Efron). Despite his constant breakups and broken promises to make her a producer, Zara decides she’s done with his sweet nothings and quits her job. But Christ isn’t ready to let her go. He shows up at her house, only to find himself smitten by Brooke, and his thighs just instantly heat up from there on out - must to Zara’s horror.
When an elderly matriarch summons her extended family for a grand reunion, the gathering unearths unresolved conflicts and buried secrets among the clan. As relatives from various generations clash and reconcile, the family navigates through emotional discoveries and the power of familial ties.
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According to the 2019 suit, Rihanna's father reportedly launched a production and talent company called Fenty Entertainment in 2017, and negotiated 15 unauthorized Rihanna shows in Latin America ...
Here are 45 fabulous facts about Rihanna that you should know. Robyn Rihanna Fenty is 36 years old. She was born on February 20, 1988. Her star sign Pieces, meaning she is dreamy and romantic. Rihanna was born in Saint Michael, Barbados, and grew up in Bridgetown, Barbados. Her father is Irish-Barbadian, and her mother is Afro-Guyanese.
Rihanna's collection of haute joaillerie is a method to maintain distance from just about everyone else, a not-so-subtle reminder that she is worth a billion dollars and can therefore slipstream ...
The "Running Late" rapper, who Lil Yachty once called the "First Lady" of the Concrete Boys rap collective he created, has been removed from the group's Instagram bio.
While he's on the run, he encounters Tip (Rihanna), a spunky young girl on a journey to find her mom, Lucy. ... Biography WATCH ON PRIME VIDEO. 6 'Moana' Platform: Disney+ | Minutes Watched ...