Soulja Boy Tell’em To Appear On Rihanna’s And Chris Brown’s Albums
Talk about an awesome — if awkward — honor. Soulja Boy Tell’em revealed to MTV News this week that he will have the unique distinction of appearing on the upcoming albums by both Chris Brown and Rihanna.
“With this particular project [it was] like, ‘Whoa!’ because it was like, ‘Yo, I need you to do something for Rihanna’s album. You got 11 hours. Go,” Soulja Boy said about the last-minute call to work on an unspecified track from Rihanna’s upcoming Rated R disc.
“It was like, ‘What?’ ” The challenge, he said, was how to cook up some verses that would help make a #1 hit in such a short time. Luckily, he had plenty of experience with working fast, thanks to the 30 minutes he said it took him to write his breakthrough hit, “Crank That.”
The pressure was not as intense when he got the call to guest on a track from Rihanna’s ex, Brown. “I got nothing but love for Chris, that’s my homeboy,” said Soulja of the singer, whose Graffiti will be his first release since his assault on Rihanna in February. “He called me up and he was like, ‘Yo, I need you on this song for my album. Will you come through?’ ”
The answer, of course, was yes — and the result is a tune titled “She’s Bad.”
“My approach to it was, if me and Chris Brown ever did a song together it got to be the best song ever,” he said. “When people hear it, it gotta be automatic, be in all the kids’ heads, all the girls definitely gotta love it, all the females gotta love it. That was my approach to it. I was just thinking, ‘What is the slickest lines I could say to a female to make them fall in love with this record?’ ”
Fans can hear the results when Rated R drops on November 23 and Graffiti is released three weeks later.
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The Dream Discusses Rihanna’s Rated R Album
It’s been confirmed that producer, The-Dream and Young Jeezy have been working with Rihanna on her upcoming album, Rated R due out on November 23rd.
The-Dream said of working with Ri-RI,
“Me and Rihanna, she just cut the last of the two records we did. It’s a record called ‘Rock Star,’ The first record is a record called ‘Hard,’ which features [Young] Jeezy. Both of those records are pretty insane.”
He confirmed he wrote a song called “Hard” which features Young Jeezy,
“’Hard,’ I want that song to explain itself. Most of the stuff I wrote — still to this day what I write — I try to find out through people — what they’re going through or what they gotta say. Then we put that in.”
On whether Jeezy delivered, Dream said,
“Oh, c’mon, he killed it! You know Young killed it. That’s ATL right there. That’s all we do.”
It’s being rumored that we should be seeing the music video for her single “Russian Roulette” on November 6th and that “The Wait Is Over” is going to be the second single she releases off of the album.
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Jennifer Aniston Needs to Give Rihanna Relationship Advice?
After Rihanna has had her very public assault drama involving Chris Brown, people have been talking about her non-stop. Even after about nine months after the altercation.
Now, a friend of Jennifer Aniston, Ray Manzella has said that Rihanna needs to learn a thing or two from the actress.
Ray says of Aniston,
“Jen has her fair share of imperfect relationships but not one of those men was ever disrespectful to her physically. No one would dare lay a hand on her because they know they just couldn’t get away with it.”
He continued on to say that Rihanna should be given some lesson on that. “Hopefully that will rub off on Rihanna. She needs someone who can set the example that no woman should be treated with anything less than respect. I think Jen’s the one to do that.”
Even Aniston said,
“My friends come to me in tough times for advice. I am the go-to girl a lot but I love that. I love helping friends.
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Rihanna’s “Russian Roulette” Debuts at #35 on the Billboard Pop 40
Rihanna’s single “Russian Roulette” was super anticipated and, received mixed reviews after it was released. Some thought it was devil music, others found it great, while some remained iffy about it. Now, it has made it’s debut on the Billboard charts.
In it’s first week on the chart, Rihanna’s single has made it to #35 on the Billboard Pop 40. This track is the first released single off of her upcoming album, Rated R. The album has had a bunch of great influences from big names that Rihanna had enlisted to work on the LP.
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Rated R Album Cover!
Check out RiRi’s official Rated R Album Cover!
The photographer Ellen Von Unwerth tells Popeater,
“Rihanna was looking to create something a bit new for the look of the album. She’s so beautiful, sweet and tough at the same time–and a pleasure to shoot. We had so much fun giving her a bit of edge–I loved taking her beauty and finding a new dramatic look. She’s fantastic to work with–very giving, very creative, very involved in every aspect of the shoot, and ready to push the boundaries.”
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Rihanna Will Release “The Wait is Ova” as Second Single
Yes, ladies and gentlemen. Rihanna will actually be releasing a single titled “The Wait is Ova” as hinted at on Rihanna’s Twitter page earlier this month. The single is off of Ri-Ri’s upcoming album, Rated R, along with her other track, “Russian Roulette” which has already been released.
Mikkel S. Eriksen, a producer who has been working with Rihanna on the album, says, “We were just told that they go for ‘The Wait Is Ova’ as next single and that it will launch in a few weeks – before the album release. It means a lot to us to join a single-release in this format.”
We’ve seen some footage and photos of Rihanna shooting the music video for “The Wait is Ova”, where she is sporting a black eye patch on some fierce clothing. You can also hear a bit of the track in the background of the video footage and on her official website.
The track “The Wait is Ova” is expected to be released on November 6th, while the album Rated R, should drop on November 23rd.
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Rick Ross Says Rihanna Will Out-Sell 50 Cent, “You Can’t Even Say Her Name Next To Woodface”
Rick Ross was very confident in Rihanna’s selling ability.
“Of course,” Ross said about Rihanna’s new album out-selling 50. “That’s Rihanna, one of the most beautiful, talented human beings on the planet. You can’t even say her name next to woodface. But more importantly, that’s a nice line-up of artists. Birdman, that’s my brother. I look at 50 Cent and Lady Gaga as the same. So I really recognize Lady Gaga, I mean Birdman and whoever else you said but at the same token but I feel like we’ve won already because the state that the industry is in, you know, it’s hard to break new artists and you know, we’ve brought Triple C’s to the table six months after me receiving the number one album [with Deeper Than Rap] and we pretty much did this hands-on by ourselves.” (SOHH)
50 Cent recently confirmed reports of Before I Self Destruct dropping on the same day as pop stars Rihanna and Lady Gaga.
“I guess I should be devastated that I’m up against Justin Timberlake, Lady Gaga and Britney Spears?” 50 said in an interview. “This is a great competition, you mean to tell me I get the chance to go into a battle against pop singers? I don’t see myself in competition with artists that aren’t even in the same genre. Could you find a rapper for me to compete with please? Now I gotta fight Justin? I’m gonna fight him and kick his a**!” (The Canadian Press)
Fif has also called the album a prequel to his 2003 debut.
“Not particularly this song, but the entire project — I meant for it to be a little harder and what I fell in love with about hip-hop and within hip-hop,” 50 explained about his upcoming project. “I accomplished it. Before I Self Destruct is absolutely harder than Get Rich or Die Tryin’ or other projects in between. The Massacre had some real aggressive content on it, but there were other things I wanted to do, like ‘Ryder Music,’ ‘Baltimore Love Thing,’ ‘Build You Up,’ featuring Jamie Foxx. This project, I kept all of those things out of it. I just made it what I wanted it to be. This album is my album right now. It’s like the prequel to Get Rich — the things I missed on that project.” (MTV)
Rihanna and Fif will also face-off against new artists like Cash Money Records’ Jay Sean.
Universal Music Group is serving up a plentiful feast for Thanksgiving week. Some of the biggest names in music will all release their high-profile albums on the Monday before the holiday. The recording giant has moved up the majority of its November 24 releases by one day to Monday, November 23, a day before the traditional Tuesday release. The shift extends across the Universal umbrella, including Interscope Geffen A&M, Universal Motown/Republic, and Island Def Jam. The new date will take advantage of the start of the holiday shopping season when customers flock to stores to stock up on gifts. 50 Cent’s Before I Self Destruct, Rihanna’s new album, Timbaland’s Shock Value 2, Lady Gaga’s The Fame Monster, Jay Sean’s All or Nothing and Birdman’s Pricele$$ will all drop on the same day. (Rap-Up)
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Brown Posts Chrianna Flashbacks Video
Chris says :
“IM SORRY YALL. JUST HAD TO POST IT”
“FOR THE FELLAS: showing emotion doesn’t make u weak… BEING HONEST MAKES U STRONG.”
He has tweeted a lot of feelings and emotions about…things. The tweet that says “IF I CHANGE FOR ME, I change for her and the world…”, Chris deleted that later.
The R&B star sings “Let’s crawl back to love” and “Everybody sees it’s you, I’m the one that lost the view” in the new song called “Crawl”. And in another song called “Spirit” he sings “You’ve been a part of my life and truthfully I love ya, nothing can take me away from you, It’s your spirit I can feel it”.
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“Russian Roulette” Remixes
RiRi’s first single “Russian Roulette” just came out, and has already been remixed twice! The first track is remixed by Kardinal Offishall and the second is remixed by Urban Noize. When I heard the first I’d thought I won’t post it, but now one more is out so let U-R know what you think!
LISTEN/DOWNLOAD Kardinal Offishall REMIX
LISTEN/DOWNLOAD Urban Noize REMIX
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Rihanna Has Finished Shooting The Music Video for Russian Roulette!
Rihanna finished to shoot the “Russian Roulette” music video a few hours ago. We’re still not sure where exactly the video was shot, but we guess it wasn’t shot only in Los Angeles.
The video was shot in two days: Friday and Saturday night, until around 7am – in both days! It’s been said that the video will be hot, sexy and will make history. Rihanna is said to have put the gun to her head in the video which is the big WOW factor, but that was hearsay so I cannot confirm that. There are no pictures of RiRi on the set.
Fans on twitter tell they saw RiRi wrapped in a white towel to make sure noone would see her outfit.
The video will premiere on November 6th so be prepared!
Source – Global Grind
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