ASAP Rocky Confirms Dating Rihanna In New Interview

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The “Wild for the Night” rapper, 32, tells GQ for the magazine’s June/July 2021 cover story a bit about his romance with Rihanna, 33, gushing that she is “the love of my life; my lady.”

When asked what it feels like to be in a relationship, A$AP Rocky said, “So much better. So much better when you got ‘the One.’ She amounts to probably, like, a million of the other ones.”

“I think when you know, you know. She’s the One,” he added.

A$AP Rocky also shared his thoughts on starting a family, saying that fatherhood is “in my destiny, absolutely.” He continued, “I think I’m already a dad! All these motherfuckers are already my sons—whatchu talkin’ ’bout!” Rocky laughed while answering the question.

“Nah, but like, I think I’d be an incredible, remarkably, overall amazing dad,” he continued. “I would have a very fly child. Very.”

Rocky also expressed how much he prefers being in a relationship rather than being single. Pre-Rihanna, the rapper was known to be one of the most eligible—and one of the most sought-after—men in the music industry. “[It’s] so much better,” he said of being coupled up and embracing monogamy.

Also in the cover story, the artist said that he and Rihanna went on a cross-country road trip together in a tour bus during quarantine.

He also said Rihanna has “absolutely” inspired some of his upcoming new music — and that she offers feedback on his projects.

“I think it’s important to have somebody that you can bounce those creative juices and ideas off of. It’s just a different point of view,” he said.

The couple had sparked romance rumors since Rihanna split from her boyfriend of three years, billionaire Hassan Jameel, in January 2020.

That July, she featured A$AP Rocky in her Fenty Skin campaign, and the duo did several interviews together to promote the collaboration.

 

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¿Rihanna estrenará nueva música pronto?

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Cinco años. Eso es lo que lleva Rihanna sin lanzar nueva música, pero… parece que la espera merecerá la pena. La cantante, que celebró por todo lo alto que su álbum Anti se ha convertido en el primero de una artista negra en pasar media década en la Billboard 200, aprovechó algún que otro comentario para evidenciar que no se olvida de sus fans y, ni mucho menos, de la música.

A través de un vídeo en su cuenta oficial de Instagram, la de Barbados contaba con orgullo el hito que había conseguido en una de las listas más importantes a nivel internacional. «Agradecida al altísimo por poner a personas incondicionales en mi círculo. Felicidades a todos los que contribuyeron a esta era. Gracias, equipo», indicaba emocionada.

Durante el corto, se puede ver a una Rihanna en pleno apogeo al mostrarse varias imágenes de sus últimas giras. Y ante esto, miles de usuarios destinaron sus comentarios a reclamar su regreso a los escenarios o, al menos, a nuestras listas de reproducción. «¡Celébralo lanzando una canción!», le decía uno de sus seguidores. Un comentario que se ha viralizado por la respuesta de la cantante: «Creo que debería. Pronto«, confesaba la intérprete. ¿Ha sido esta su manera de anunciar nueva música? ¿Veremos próximamente su regreso a los escenarios?

«La música sigue siendo mi primer amor»

«Me encanta hacer música, así que nunca la descuido. Siempre la hago una y otra vez. Sigue siendo mi primer amor», comentó hace unos meses durante una entrevista para Access. Toda una declaración de intenciones tras las presiones que ha recibido en los últimos años por parte de un fandom cargado de expectativas e ilusiones respecto a R9, un disco que parece estar a la vuelta de la esquina y que como hace referencia su propio nombre, se convertiría en el noveno álbum de Rihanna.

Las escasas apariciones públicas de la artista han generado todo tipo de planteamientos. Desde que sus negocios no la permiten dedicar el tiempo suficiente a la música hasta que podría estar sobrepasada por la cantidad de trabajo que tiene a sus espaldas. Pero nada más lejos de la realidad: la intérprete de «Diamonds» ha explicado de forma clara que ni su línea de cuidado para la piel Fenty Skin ni su colección de lencería Savage x Fenty son indicativos de su periodo de distanciamiento con la música. «Ahora que tengo más cosas en mi vida, tengo que prestar atención y estar al tanto de todo. Soy así, y a veces la música se ve afectada porque estas otras cosas son importantes en cuestión de plazos y producción», declaraba al respecto. «No lo voy a sacar solo porque la gente lo esté esperando. Me está llevando tiempo, así que voy a hacer que merezca la pena».

La empresaria confesó divertida que no es la primera vez que recibe este tipo de presiones por parte de la prensa o sus seguidores. Ya en 2016, cuando estaba en plena grabación de Anti, la cantante vio como unos paparazzi la fotografiaban entrando y saliendo del estudio. Poco después, los medios de comunicación dieron por hecho que su álbum saldría en las próximas semanas, pero su lanzamiento se prolongó bastante más de lo esperado. ¿Ocurrirá lo mismo con R9?

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Rihanna Is Dating Longtime Friend A$AP Rocky After Months of Romance Rumors

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There’s definitely some «Love on the Brain» here!

Rihanna is dating longtime friend, rapper A$AP Rocky, a source tells PEOPLE.

The news comes after the New York Post‘s Page Six reported that the couple — both 32 — was spotted having dinner with friends at the Beatrice Inn in New York over the weekend.

The couple has sparked romance rumors since Rih split from her boyfriend of three years, billionaire Hassan Jameel, in January. (Then, The Sun reported that Rihanna and A$AP Rocky had been seeing each other, but a source told E! that she was still single.)

In July, Rihanna featured the «Everyday» rapper in her Fenty Skin campaign. The duo did several interviews together to promote the collaboration.

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Rihanna and A$AP Rocky
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In videos for GQ and Vogue featuring the two, RiRi and A$AP answered questions such as what they first notice in people to how they take care of their skin.

«My skin type is just as complicated as men are,» Rihanna jokingly said when A$AP Rocky asked about her skin type for Vogue. «Y’all always try to say women are complicated [but] it’s y’all!»

When Rihanna asked the rapper what his own skin is like, he answered: «Handsome.»

For GQ, A$AP Rocky said he wished there was more diversity and representation in the industry.

«I wish it was more versatility, diversity, obviously you know,» he said. «I think it’s kinda trying to evolve especially with a person like yourself. But I do wish that there was way more versatility.»

In the GQ video, the rapper also revealed the «hardest part» about working with Rihanna.

«I think the hardest part about working with you is not goofin’ off and laughing the whole time. Like this s— is comedy,» he said. «That’s the hardest part. You know, people be so cool it’s hard not to, not to laugh. That’s all. But it was fun. The hardest part is not having too much fun. You just forget that it’s still work at the end of the day.»

A$AP Rocky and Rihanna have been friends for a while now. The rapper served as an opening act for the U.S. dates of her Diamonds World Tour in 2013. A$AP Rocky was also featured on her track «Cockiness.»

The duo was also seen attending a Louis Vuitton fashion show in Paris back in 2018.

The rapper has previously dated celebrities such as Kendall Jenner in 2017and Brazilian model Daiane Sodré last year.

Rihanna se disculpa por la polémica ofensa al Islam surgida en su desfile Savage x Fenty

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Rihanna ha conseguido hacerse un hueco en el mundo de la moda, el pasado 2 de octubre presentó de manera virtual el desfile de su marca de lenceríaSavage X Fenty. Sin embargo, este desfile no ha pasado desapercibido en las redes y no precisamente por los modelitos presentados por la de Barbados.

Al comienzo del desfile, cuando se producía la intervención de Rihanna, sonaba una canción de Coucou Chloe. En ella se podía escuchar parte de un hadiz, un texto sagrado para el Islam en el que se recogen las tradiciones y dichos del profeta Mahoma, cuya presencia ha desatado las críticas.

Múltiples internautas de todas las partes del mundo se han sumado a las críticas que ha manifestado la comunidad musulmana, especialmente por la identificación que el evento tiene con la tolerancia y la inclusión.

La propia Coucou Chloe decidió también pedir disculpas tras la polémica generada por su tema Doom explicando que utilizó samples de música dance que se encontró por internet y desconocía que estos llevaban un hadiz islámico.

Tal ha sido el revuelo desatado que la propia Rihanna ha tenido que pedir públicamente disculpas por lo ocurrido. En su cuenta de Instagram la de Barbados dijo: «Me gustaría agradecer a la comunidad musulmana por señalar un gran descuido que fue involuntariamente ofensivo en nuestro programa Savage x Fenty».

«Lo más importante es que me gustaría disculparme con ustedes por este honesto, pero descuidado error. Entendemos que hemos herido a muchos de nuestros hermanos y hermanas musulmanes, y estoy increíblemente descorazonada por esto…», ha continuado la intérprete de Umbrella.

La artista explicó: No he querido faltar al respeto hacia Dios o cualquier religión y por lo tanto el uso de la canción en nuestro proyecto fue completamente irresponsable». Rihanna concluyó asegurando: «En el futuro nos aseguraremos de que no vuelva a pasar. Gracias por tu perdón y comprensión».

Rihanna aparece con la cara amoratada tras un accidente con una moto eléctrica

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La cantante Rihanna se ha convertido en una de las protagonistas inesperadas de este fin de semana después de conocerse el desafortunado suceso que vivió esta semana. La artista disfrutaba de un trayecto con su scooter eléctrica cuando sufrió una caída que le ha dejado varias heridas en su rostro, el cual presenta una imagen muy amoratada e hinchada y que rápidamente hizo saltar las alarmas de todos sus seguidores.

La cantante, herida tras una caída de moto

 

Las instantáneas, filtradas por el portal norteamericano TMZ, cobraron una importancia equivocada para los fieles fans de Rihanna después de que la cantante hablase de su relación con el también cantante Chris Brown, y sobre la cual señalaba que le maltrataba físicamente. La artista de Barbados también aseguró que se sigue viendo con su expareja, aunque ahora su relación es muy diferente puesto que se trata de una amistad.

Las declaraciones, sumadas a estas alarmantes imágenes, motivaron unas conclusiones muy equivocadas en sus seguidores, por lo que rápidamente el equipo de comunicación de Rihanna salió al paso de los rumores para aclarar que se trataba de un accidente de tráfico. Rihanna sufrió esta pasada semana una caída con su scooter eléctrica, con tan mala suerte que cayó de cara, lo cual explica razonadamente sus heridas.

«Está perfectamente bien ahora, pero perdió el equilibrio en una scooter eléctrica la semana pasada y se hirió la frente y la cara. Afortunadamente, no hubo ninguna lesión importante y se está curando de forma muy rápida», explicó uno de sus representantes en las últimas horas a la revista People, declaraciones que han terminado de tranquilizar a sus seguidores.

Mientras Rihanna sigue siendo más protagonista por su vida privada que por su carrera profesional, sus seguidores esperan que muy pronto cambie esta tendencia y les brinde de nuevos éxitos y nuevas canciones. Cabe recordar que la artista llegó a prometer que el año pasado sacaría nuevo material, aunque no llegó a lanzarse. Todo apunta a que este 2020 será el año en el que Rihanna regrese con nueva música después de publicar su último álbum en 2016.

Ariana Grande Begs Rihanna to Drop Her New Album: ‘Fill My Ears Again Please’

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Rihanna and Ariana Grande backstage at the 2014 iHeartRadio Music Awards held at The Shrine Auditorium on May 1, 2014 in Los Angeles.

Ariana Grande can’t wait for Rihanna’s new album, either. On Tuesday (Aug. 18), the singer took to social media to express her anticipation for her fellow pop star’s long-gestating ninth studio set.

Grande referencing the project came in response to the news that she’d officially surpassed RiRi as the most-streamed artist of all time on Spotify with a mind-blowing 20.5 billion-plus streams of her catalog.

«Holy s–t thank u all so much for listening and caring at all let alone this much. i can’t wait to give u new things to listen to,» she wrote, adding that she’ll be more than happy to pass the crown back to Rihanna whenever the new LP finally drops.

«Now can rihanna pls drop her album so she can rightfully snatch this back and fill my ears again please or ….,» Ari concluded.

Rihanna has been teasing her follow-up to 2016’s Anti since at least May 2018, when she hinted in a Vogue cover story that the album would be reggae-influenced. Since then, the star has regularly continued to poke fun at the rabid questions surrounding the LP’s yet-to-be-announced release date, often replying to fans in the comments of her Instagram.

For her part, Ari most recently unveiled K Bye For Now, an album of live recordings her Sweetener World Tour, back in Dec. 2019. Her last proper studio set was 2019’s Thank U, Next.

Check out Grande’s query for Rihanna below.

Why Rihanna won’t release new music any time soon

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Singer Rihanna at Porcelain Ball in New York.

Rihanna is putting music on hold «indefinitely» to focus on her beauty empire.

The Work hitmaker hasn’t released an album since Anti in 2016 and it seems fans will have to wait even longer for new material because the 32-year-old star has just trademarked the name Buff Ryder, a skincare line to coincide with her Fenty Beauty cosmetics range, and plans to concentrate her efforts there.

A source told the Sun newspaper’s Bizarre column: «Rihanna’s ninth album is on hold indefinitely.

«She wants to make her millions with beauty and is planning a new skincare line to go alongside her Fenty Cosmetics range.

«Her lingerie range has gone down so well too that she feels she needs to strike while the iron’s hot. Whenever she drops pics of her modelling the gear, sales go up.

«Fans hopes for R9 will be kept on hold while Rihanna builds her beauty empire as she plots to become the next beauty billionaire.

«She’s realised there is more money in the beauty game than music as record sales die down and live touring faces big competition.»

In May, the Rude Boy hitmaker told fans she had «lost» her long-awaited ninth album.

Rihanna had taken to Instagram to share a clip of herself in the garden twirling a pair of her new sunglasses from her brand Fenty’s Off Record eyewear range to promote the new line, and her fans soon took to the comments section to demand that she drop the record.

When one asked: «WHERES THE ALBUM», Rihanna replied: «I lost it», and added the shrug emoji.

And when another commented: «DON’T DROP THAT ALBUM», she responded: «navy this who to blame right here look.»

In April, the Diamonds singer – who has donated millions to various causes during the coronavirus pandemic – told her fans to stop bothering her about new music while she is «trying to save the world».

Speaking during an Instagram Live, she told her fans: «If one of y’all motherf****** ask me about the album one more time when I’m tryna save the world, unlike y’all president….on sight.»

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Rihanna Just Revealed When She’s Going To Have Children (And How Many!)

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Rihanna has babies on the brain — and let’s just say, she wants a full house.

Speaking to British Vogue for the mag’s upcoming May issue, the pop star opened up about everything from her overwhelming work ethic, breaking off her romance with billionaire Hassan Jameel and what she hopes her life will look like in the next 10 years. “Since I turned 32, I’m realizing life is really short,” she told the publication. “You don’t have a lot of time to tolerate s—t, you know? You put so much on your plate. … And I’m overwhelmed too much. What’s happening now is that I’m going back to black and white. My grey area is shutting down.”

With all the demand surrounding her hotly anticipated new album and her ever-expanding Fenty Beauty brand, the “Diamonds” songbird says her workaholic nature is all part of a larger, long-term goal. “I’m working like this now so that I don’t to in the future,” she reveals. “I know I want to live differently.”

Part of that imminent transition, Ri shares, involves wanting to have a family of her own — something she ponders when asked where she sees herself in the next decade. “Ten years? I’ll be 42! I’ll be ancient,” she quips. “I’ll have kids – three or four of ’em.”

What’s more, when asked if she’d be willing to raise her children on her own if she had to, Rihanna said, “Hell, yeah.”

“I feel like society makes me want to feel like, ‘Oh, you got it wrong…’ They diminish you as a mother if there’s not a dad in your kids’ lives,” she explained. “But the only thing that matters is happiness, that’s the only healthy relationship between a parent and a child. That’s the only thing that can raise a child truly, is love.”

Read the full profile at British Vogue here.

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First Stream: New Music From Dua Lipa, PartyNextDoor, Pearl Jam & More

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Dua Lipa attends the 62nd Annual GRAMMY Awards at Staples Center on Jan. 26, 2020 in Los Angeles.

Billboard’s First Stream serves as a handy guide to this Friday’s most essential releases — the key music that everyone will be talking about today, and that will be dominating playlists this weekend and beyond.

This week, Dua Lipa doesn’t want us to stop dancing, PartyNextDoor has the year’s coolest cameo, and Pearl Jam demonstrate why they’re still a force to be reckoned with. Check out all of this week’s First Stream picks below:

The Album That Will Keep You Boogieing For Many Days To Come:
Dua Lipa, Future Nostalgia

In a relatively short amount of time, U.K. pop artist Dua Lipa has made jumps from blog darling to hitmaker to in-demand collaborator to legit A-lister; in some regards, a lot is riding on sophomore album Future Nostalgia to deliver an even wider audience, but based on her track record, it’s hardly a surprise that Lipa passes this new test with flying colors. A nonstop party that borrows from the past to predict where pop is headed (hence its title), Future Nostalgia is brimming with undeniable bangers that re-imagine classic house, techno and disco with modern production techniques. Tracks like “Hallucinate,” “Break My Heart,” “Levitating” and “Physical” beg for motion, and Lipa dares you to deny her growth as a vocal, sexual, lyrical and universal force of nature. Future Nostalgia just moved the bar a little higher for pop in 2020. Piece of advice: spend the coming days, weeks and months dancing to it.

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The Album With The Feature That Everyone Will Be Talking About:

PartyNextDoor, Partymobile

All right, first thing’s first: Rihanna is on the new PartyNextDoor album, and with the surprise guest spot on the flickering sing-along “Believe It,” she sounds as comfortable with her superpowers as ever. Yet that big-time get shouldn’t overshadow PND’s artistic leap forward on Partymobile, which finally gives the compelling R&B singer-songwriter a proper collection of songs to progress his early promise. Surrounding the tracks with Rihanna and his OVO boss Drake, PartyNextDoor goes it alone over sparse arrangements, emphasizing his voice and thoughts on modern love instead of any production gimmickry. A song like “Touch Me,” in which he pleads for human connection as the track disintegrates around him, shows what he is capable of, regardless of whether or not he’s buoyed by an A-list feature.

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The Album That You’ll Share With Your Dad, But Secretly Be Playing a Lot, Too:
Pearl Jam, Gigaton

Pearl Jam has the sort of fan base and catalog that ensures packed stadiums for years to come, yet Eddie Vedder and co. have never been the kind to remain frozen in the past. Gigaton, their first album since 2013’s Lightning Bolt, matches the tenacity of that project but has a tighter focus, as a lamentation of the Trump era and wake-up call to those who have gotten complacent during it. The album starts off like a firecracker with tracks like “Who Ever Said” and “Quick Escape,” then naturally pulls back, as mid-tempo rocker “Seven O’Clock” toasts those who have challenged the system and “Comes Then Goes” unfolds like a classic Vedder acoustic sing-along. There are several potshots at the president, sure, but the songs that they anchor are some of Pearl Jam’s best of the 21st century.

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The Album That Continues One Of Pop’s Most Interesting Trajectories:
5 Seconds of Summer, Calm

Consider 5 Seconds of Summer’s 2018 hit “Youngblood” the ultimate career inflection point: before that synth-rock radio staple was released, the quartet was best known as pop-punk rabble-rousers, and since it took off, the 5SOS guys have made a hard pivot away from anything that would have made sense at Warped Tour. New album Calm is an accomplished exploration of the group’s expanding palette, as “Easier” was inspired by Nine Inch Nails, “No Shame” contains a guitar line straight out of the Depeche Mode playbook, and you’re bound to recall artists like the Smiths, New Order and Peter Gabriel at different moments. Not to say that Calm is derivative — in the same way that Harry Styles recently mastered his own ‘70s pop-rock revival, 5 Seconds of Summer expertly synthesize their influences into fresh-feeling gems like “Wildflower” and “Red Desert.”

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The Song That You’ll Need To Schedule Out Some Time To Hear In Full:
Bob Dylan, “Murder Most Foul”

“Twas a dark day in Dallas, November ’63 / A day that will live on in infamy.” So begins Bob Dylan’s first original song in eight years, a sprawling, nearly 17-minute reflection on the assassination of John F. Kennedy that spirals forward and then becomes so much more. Dylan references touchstones of the ‘60s, from Beatlemania to Woodstock; he name-checks “Only The Good Die Young” from Billy Joel, as well as Etta James and John Lee Hooker; he references A Nightmare on Elm Street; he sings “rub-a-dub-dub.” “Murder Most Foul” will be pored over as an unexpected Dylan artifact and tapestry of American history, but it’s also a poetic reflection on a terrifying time in the world, during another terrifying time in the world, and for that, it should be consumed and appreciated.

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The Song That Will Make You Do a Double-Take:
Rosalía, “Dolerme”

When pressing play on a new Rosalía track, one doesn’t expect to hear the mournful chug of an acoustic guitar as an intro. Yet the new ballad “Dolerme” (which translates to “Hurt Me”) once again finds the Spanish star upending expectations, diverging from her uptempo, flamenco-influenced Latin pop to create something that would sound at home on alternative rock radio. As the strumming leads into a full band arrangement, Rosalía delivers the chorus with a familiar urgency but tinkers with her voice, Auto-Tune making her somehow sound even more vulnerable. And then “Dolerme” is over, and we’re left to play it again and try to figure out how Rosalía pulled off such a surprising pivot.

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The Album That Delivers On Years of Hype:
Jessie Reyez, Before Love Came To Kill Us

“I’m taking everything I came for / I ain’t f—king asking,” Jessie Reyez sneers early in her long-awaited debut album. Reyez has always been an artist with a ton of promise, and Before Love Came To Kill Us has been in the works for years — but for a project that has surely been tinkered with and agonized over, the full-length possessed a natural charm that no amount of revising could have dulled. The album’s centerpieces (the moving ballad “Love In The Dark,” the doo-wop-warping Eminem collaboration “Coffin”) find a balance with quieter moments, like the sun-kissed love song “Intruders,” in which Reyez threatens bodily harm to anyone threatening her paradise. Fans have been waiting for years to see Reyez get her shot, and Before Love Came To Kill Us is a singular, successful one.

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The Song That You’ll Be Adding To Those Summer Playlists You’re Prepping:
Kygo feat. Zara Larsson and Tyga, “Like It Is”

Superstar producer Kygo’s most recent work has included the single “Higher Love” with rediscovered vocals from Whitney Houston, as well as a musical tribute to Avicii, who passed in 2018. “Like It Is,” a new team-up with Zara Larsson and Tyga that precedes Kygo’s next album, is low-stakes by comparison, but hits like a breath of fresh air after his focus remained on heavier subjects. The new single recalls some of the EDM-pop crossover tracks of the early 2010s, with Larsson guiding the hooks between Kygo’s drops and Tyga sliding in with a radio-friendly verse; the whole affair is expertly designed frothy fun, and has been released just in time for an extended run of ubiquity as the weather heats up.

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The Song That Will Get You Excited For Cookout Season:
Florida Georgia Line, “I Love My Country”

Is the “country” that the Florida Georgia Line boys are referring to on their latest single the genre that has made them stars, or the US of A? A little of both, perhaps: while the duo’s comeback track shouts out the American acts and memories that they cherish the most, they do so in a manner that pays homage to classic country radio, as they name-check George Strait and sonically recall Brooks & Dunn. For a pair of former party bros who made their name in country by expanding its sound, “I Love My Country” invites the traditionalists in further, harkening to the past while providing a couple of modern voices. Florida Georgia Line keep it simple here, and score.

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Rihanna Jumps Back to Music With Partynextdoor on Grooving ‘Believe It’

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Partynextdoor came back with his first album in four years on Friday morning (March 27), Partymobile. But more importantly for fans thirsty for new Rihanna music, he brought along his old friend for the sensual single «Believe It.»

«Best make me believe it/ Best make me believe it/ Believe you won’t deceive me,» the pair sing on the R&B slow burner’s silky smooth chorus. It’s the first new music from Rihanna since the 2017 N.E.R.D. track «Lemon» and it’s a strong relationship breakdown, with the pair playing lovers imploring each other to believe in the power of their connection.

«First you gotta forgive me Let me know everything gon’ be okay/ Even if I come out with everything I did/ Would you still punish me even though I did it a long time ago?/ If so, let me know/ If I propose, would you say no?/ Would you break my heart?/ Would you embarrass me or play your part?» Party sings over the finger-snap beat, warning that if things don’t work out he might not make it.

The song appears on Party’s OVO Sound album and it marks a reunion with Rihanna, for whom he wrote the 2016 single «Work» featuring Drake, who also appears on the Partymobile track «Loyal.» Rihanna hasn’t released a new album since 2016’s Anti and the Navy has been patiently awaiting word on her next full length.

Drake helped stoke those flames this week when playfully trolled Rih when both tuned into DJ Spade’s IG livestream on Wednesday and Drizzy commented, «Rihanna drop R12 right now.»

Listen to «Believe It» below.