Rihanna and A$AP Rocky are each engaged on eagerly anticipated new albums, and it seems they’re lending their skills to one another’s initiatives — as unofficial A&Rs, no less than.
RiRi spoke with Leisure Tonight on the launch celebration for her FENTY x Puma Creeper Phatty Earth Tone sneaker in London on Wednesday (April 17), the place she shed extra mild on her upcoming ninth album.
After being requested if her kids, RZA and Riot, can be featured on the file, Rihanna provided up some thrilling information.
“I imply, it’s as much as them,” she stated. “I already received stuff that I really feel like I could make hits out of. Me and Rocky are actually attempting to determine who’s gonna use what as a result of it’s so good!”
When requested concerning the visuals for the as-yet-untitled album, Rihanna stored mum: “I can’t inform you! That will be me, like, snitching on my file.”
Take a look at the clip beneath, together with her feedback about her album starting on the 3:20 mark.
Rihanna has been extra forthcoming about her long-awaited ANTI follow-up of late.
Earlier this month, she spoke about her artistic course of whereas making the album and defined how her method differs in comparison with earlier initiatives.
“I’ve lots of visible concepts,” she advised Interview journal. “It’s bizarre. My mind is working backward proper now. I often have the music first, and the music leads me into all of those visible alternatives, and now I’m having all of those visuals.
“I don’t have the songs for them but, however perhaps that’s the important thing, this time. Perhaps the visible concepts are main me to the songs that I have to make.”
When requested if the album can be a “rebirth” for her, she replied: “Random concepts, quirky concepts, issues that don’t have anything to do with me in any respect. I imply, I can’t inform you. The opps is watching.”
A$AP Rocky has additionally been teasing a brand new venture for a while, along with his final, TE$TING, arriving again in 2018.
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In an interview with DAZED journal in October, the Harlem rapper fueled pleasure for the album, tentatively titled Don’t Be Dumb, by claiming it’ll high his earlier efforts.
“I’ve been actually experimenting as traditional and what I like about that is it seems like my finest work but,” he stated. “I need to depart expectations large and open. I don’t need to inform you what to anticipate. I simply need folks to expertise it how they do naturally.”
Rocky has dropped two potential singles thus far, “Similar Issues?” and the Pharrell-produced “Riot (Rowdy Pipe’n),” however very similar to his spouse’s new album, it stays with out a launch date.
