She has attained fourteen Billboard Hot 100 number ones thus far and is the second Barbadian artist to win a Grammy Award. She is also a cultural ambassador for Barbados. In 2021 Rihanna was named a "National Hero" in her home country, earning her the title "The Right Excellent."
Rihanna was born in Saint Michael, Barbados to Ronald Fenty, a warehouse supervisor, and Monica Fenty, an accountant. Her mother, a native of Guyana, is Afro-Guyanese and her father is Bajan and Irish. She is the oldest of three siblings; two younger brothers, Rorrey and Rajad Fenty. She began singing at around the age of seven. Her childhood was deeply affected by her father's addiction to crack cocaine and parent's rocky marriage, which ended when she was fourteen years old. Rihanna attended Charles F. Broome Memorial School, a primary school in Barbados, and then the Combermere School, where she formed a musical trio with two of her classmates at the age of fifteen. In 2004 she won the Miss Combermere Beauty Pageant. She was an army cadet in a sub-military programme that trained with the military of Barbados and Shontelle was her drill sergeant.
At the age of 15, she formed a girl group with two of her classmates. In 2003, friends introduced Rihanna and her two bandmates to record producer Evan Rogers, who was vacationing in Barbados with his wife. The group auditioned for Rogers, who said that "the minute Rihanna walked into the room, it was like the other two girls didn't exist." While auditioning for Rogers, Rihanna sang Destiny's Child's cover of "Emotion". Over the next year, Rihanna and her mom shuttled back and forth to Rogers home in Stamford, Connecticut. Then, shortly after turning 16, she relocated in the United States and moved in with Rogers and his wife. Carl Sturken helped Rihanna record a four-song demo, which included the ballad "The Last Time," a cover of Whitney Houston’s hit "For the Love of You" and what would become her first hit, "Pon de Replay" to send to various recording companies. It took a year to record the demos, because she was going to school and would only record during summer and Christmas school breaks. Rihanna's demo made its way to Def Jam, which invited her to audition for the label's then-president, Jay-Z, who quickly signed her.
Rihanna broke into the recording industry in 2005 with the release of her debut album Music of the Sun, which features the number 2 hit single "Pon de Replay". Less than a year later, Rihanna released album artist=Rihanna]A Girl Like Me and earned her first number-one single, "SOS, which sampled the popular 80s track "Tainted Love". "Unfaithful" was also released and was fairly successful.
Rihanna released her third album Good Girl Gone Bad in June 2007. Prior to the release of the album, she spent the week of the Grammys writing songs for the album with Ne-Yo. She adopted a more sexual image while recording the album, eventually dying her hair black and cutting it short. Rihanna worked with Timbaland and Christopher "Tricky" Stewart, as well as previous musical collaborators such as Stargate, Carl Sturken and Evan Rogers to re-imagine her album compositions with uptempo dance tracks. Rihanna commented, "I want to keep people dancing but still be soulful at the same time. You feel different every album, and [at] this stage I feel like I want to do a lot of uptempo [songs]."
The album topped the charts in countries like the United Kingdom, Canada, Japan, Brazil, Russia and Ireland, and peaked at number two in the United States and Australia. Unlike previous work, the album featured a more dance-pop sound instead of the dancehall, reggae and ballad styles. The album received positive reviews by critics, becoming her most critically acclaimed album at that time compared to her previous efforts.
It yielded eight hit singles - "Umbrella" "Shut Up and Drive", "Don't Stop The Music" "Hate That I Love You" "Rehab" "Disturbia" "Take A Bow" "If I Never See Your Face Again" - all singles reaching the top twenty on the Billboard Hot 100 — including the worldwide number-one hit "Umbrella," featuring Jay-Z.
In addition to reaching number one in various countries, "Umbrella" was the number one single in the United Kingdom for ten consecutive weeks, making it the longest-running number-one single since Wet Wet Wet's single "Love Is All Around" spent fifteen weeks at the top in 1994. The song is listed number three on the 100 Best Songs of 2007 published by Rolling Stone magazine. In 2008, "Umbrella" earned Rihanna and Jay-Z a Grammy Award for Best Rap/Sung Collaboration in addition to receiving nominations for Record of the Year and Song of the Year. It managed to stay at number one in the United Kingdom for 10 weeks, the longest time spent by a female and in the 21st century, on this chart.
"Umbrella" has also been recognised in various forms of accolades by the music press. The song is listed number three on the 100 Best Songs of 2007, published by the music magazine Rolling Stone. Time magazine also listed the song number three on their Top 10 Songs of 2007. The song is listed number one on Entertainment Weekly magazine's list of the 10 Best Singles of 2007, while topping the magazine's poll for the best single of 2007. Blender magazine awarded the song Song of the Year in their Readers' Poll 2007. The music press has considered "Umbrella" as 2007's Song of the Summer, while The New York Times writer Kelefa Sanneh regarded it as "arguably 2007's signature slow jam".
In August 2009, Rihanna collaborated with Jay-Z and Kanye West on "Run This Town." The song peaked at number two on Billboard Hot 100 and also reached the top ten in five other countries. She appeared on the cover of Vogue Italia for the September 2009 Issue. The shoot was influenced by Rihanna's hair, which she had cut for the shoot into a mohawk-like style. The style of the shoot was Extreme Couture and very dark, and in one shot she appeared semi-nude. Rihanna performed "Run This Town" along with Jay-Z and West for the "Answer the Call" concert at Madison Square Garden in September 2009, making it her first musical performance since the altercation with Brown. The trio also performed "Run This Town," on the premiere of The Jay Leno Show on September 14, 2009.
In November of 2009, Rated R was released in the wake of a physical altercation with romantic interest Chris Brown, who pled guilty to felony assault. The album's lead single, "Russian Roulette" -- written with Ne-Yo - was one of the year's most controversial singles. The album also includes collaborations with Tricky, The-Dream, Stargate, and SRP.
One year later, Rihanna released her fifth studio album called Loud. It's lead single, "Only Girl (In the World)", reached number one in more than ten countries. The song also won a Grammy Award for Best Dance Recording.
Talk That Talk was released one year after Loud. With the song "We Found Love", Rihanna became the fastest solo artist in the chart's history to achieve twenty Hot 100 top-ten singles, breaking the previous record set by Madonna. The song later became her eleventh number-one single on the Billboard Hot 100. "You Da One" became the second single from the album but was not as successful as "We Found Love". The third single from the album, "Talk That Talk" featuring Jay-Z, was announced on Rihanna's Twitter. The fourth single, "Where Have You Been", peaked at number five on the Billboard Hot 100.
On February 20, 2012, Rihanna and Chris Brown released 2 remixes, one featuring the "Talk That Talk" album track "Birthday Cake" and the other featuring Chris Brown's "Turn Up The Music"
In April 2012, the singer appeared in the movie "Battleship", which is based on the game of the same name.
Rihanna's seventh album Unapologetic was released on November 19, 2012; it was preceded by the lead single Diamonds, which reached number one on the Billboard Hot 100 becoming Rihanna's twelfth number one single on the chart and tying her with Madonna and The Supremes for the fourth-most number ones in the chart's history.
On January 28, 2016, Rihanna released her eighth studio album ANTI exclusively through streaming service Tidal. The album peaked at number one on the US Billboard 200, becoming Rihanna's second number one and eighth top ten album on the chart. The album was supported by the release of four singles including the lead single "Work" featuring Drake, which topped the Billboard Hot 100. Further platinum singles "Needed Me" and "Love on the Brain" both peaked inside the top ten of the Hot 100. In 2016, Rihanna was featured on several singles. The first collaboration was Calvin Harris' "This Is What You Came For," which reached number three on the Billboard Hot 100 and number two in the United Kingdom. Rihanna was also featured on Drake's "Too Good" from his album Views and Mike Will Made It's single, "Nothing Is Promised". On June 27, 2016, Rihanna released "Sledgehammer", the lead single from the Star Trek Beyond soundtrack. On August 28, Rihanna was honored with the MTV Video Vanguard Award at the 2016 MTV Video Music Awards. Rihanna was elected artist of the decade of 2010 by Pitchfork, Insider, Lofficiel among other major music magazines.
In October 2022, Rihanna released "Lift Me Up" from the Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, marking her first solo single since 2016's "Love On The Brain". It reached #2 on the Billboard Hot 100 and #3 in the UK. The song was nominated for a Golden Globe and Academy Award, making it Rihanna's first nomination in both awards. On February 12, 2023, she performed at the Apple Music Super Bowl Halftime Show, marking her first performance since the 2018 Grammy Awards. Her Halftime show became the second most watched Halftime show of all time with 118.7 million viewers, just after Lady Gaga’s (117.5 million), but behind Katy Perry’s (121 million).
Biitch Better Have My Money
Rihanna Lyrics
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Moo-la-lah
Yayo
Bitch better have my money!
Y'all should know me well enough
Bitch better have my money!
Please don't call me on my bluff
Ballin' bigger than LeBron
Bitch, give me your money
Who y'all think y'all frontin' on?
Like brrap, brrap, brrap
Louis XIII and it's all on me, nigga you just bought a shot
Kamikaze if you think that you gon' knock me off the top
Shit, your wife in the backseat of my brand new foreign car
Don't act like you forgot, I call the shots, shots, shots
Like brrap, brrap, brrap
Pay me what you owe me, don't act like you forgot
Bitch better have my money!
Bitch better have my money!
Pay me what you owe me
Bitch better have my money!
Turn up to Rihanna while the whole club fuckin' wasted
Every time I drive by, I'm the only thing you're playin'
In a drop top, doin' hundred, y'all in my rearview mirror racin'
Where y'all at? Where y'all at? Where y'all at?
Like brrap, brrap, brrap
Louis XIII and it's all on me, nigga you just bought a shot
Kamikaze if you think that you gon' knock me off the top
Shit, your wife in the backseat of my brand new foreign car
Don't act like you forgot, I call the shots, shots, shots
Like brrap, brrap, brrap
Pay me what you owe me, don't act like you forgot
Bitch better have my money!
Bitch better have my money!
Pay me what you owe me
Bitch better have my money!
Bitch better have my money!
Pay me what you owe me
Bitch better have my money!
The song "Bitch Better Have My Money" by Rihanna is an anthem about getting paid what is owed. The repeated line "Bitch better have my money" makes it clear that the singer is not messing around and will not accept any excuses or delays. The use of profanity and aggressive language emphasizes the urgency and seriousness of the situation. The singer makes references to their wealth and power, indicating that they are not to be underestimated or taken advantage of.
The verses contain provocative images and scenarios to further convey the message of the song. Lines like "Shit, your wife in the backseat of my brand new foreign car" and "Every time I drive by, I'm the only thing you're playin'" suggest that the singer has power and influence over their target. The references to Louis XIII, a high-end brand of cognac, also serve to emphasize the singer's wealth and extravagant lifestyle.
Line by Line Meaning
Yayo, yayo
Slang words used to show excitement over something.
Moo-la-lah
Also, slang words used to describe money or cash.
Yayo
Repetition of the first line. Still showing excitement over something.
Bitch better have my money!
A warning to the person who owes the singer a huge sum of money.
Y'all should know me well enough
The person who owes the singer knows her character very well.
Bitch better have my money!
Another warning to pay the money owed immediately.
Please don't call me on my bluff
Do not challenge the singer's threat or doubt her determination to get the money back.
Pay me what you owe me
A request for the money that's been owed for a long time.
Ballin' bigger than LeBron
Comparing her success to that of the famous basketball player LeBron James.
Bitch, give me your money
Another demand for the money owed.
Who y'all think y'all frontin' on?
Challenging the person who owes her money and asking who they think they're trying to fool.
Like brrap, brrap, brrap
Sound effects used to depict gunfire, which may mean that the singer will use force if necessary to retrieve the money.
Louis XIII and it's all on me, nigga you just bought a shot
The singer has bought an expensive liquor and boasts about it, at the same time mocking the person who she is demanding money from for only buying a cheaper shot.
Kamikaze if you think that you gon' knock me off the top
A warning that if the person who owes money plans to harm the singer's reputation or success, it will be like them committing suicide in the process.
Shit, your wife in the backseat of my brand new foreign car
A boast about the singer hooking up with the person's significant other, while flaunting her new car.
Don't act like you forgot, I call the shots, shots, shots
Warning the person who owes her money not to forget about her power and authority, referencing the sound effects used in the song to emphasize her point.
Like brrap, brrap, brrap
Repetition of sound effects used to depict gunfire, to further emphasize her point of authority.
Pay me what you owe me, don't act like you forgot
Repeating a demand for the money owed, reminding the person that the singer still has power and authority over them.
Bitch better have my money!
A final warning and demand for the person to pay the money owed.
Turn up to Rihanna while the whole club fuckin' wasted
A scene depicting the singer's power and influence, as the entire club is partying to her music.
Every time I drive by, I'm the only thing you're playin'
More portrayal of the singer's power and influence, as the person who owes her money only listens to her music when she's around.
In a drop top, doin' hundred, y'all in my rearview mirror racin'
Boasting about driving a fancy car at high speed, while the person owing her money is trying to keep up, but ultimately can't catch up.
Where y'all at? Where y'all at? Where y'all at?
Taunting the person who owes her money, asking where they are and why they're not around.
Like brrap, brrap, brrap
Repeating sound effects used to depict gunfire, which may mean that the singer will use force if necessary to retrieve the money.
Bitch better have my money!
A final call for the person to pay the money owed.
Bitch better have my money!
Repetition of the final call for the person to pay the money owed.
Pay me what you owe me
A final plea to the person who owes her money to pay it immediately.
Bitch better have my money!
A final warning and demand for the person to pay the money owed.
Lyrics © Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Warner/Chappell Music, Inc., Universal Music Publishing Group, BMG RIGHTS MANAGEMENT US, LLC
Written by: KANYE WEST, ROBYN FENTY, TRAVIS SCOTT, JAMILE PIERRE, BADRIIA BOURELLY, WONDA GIRL
Lyrics Licensed & Provided by LyricFind
@KarenJewels
This was the hardest Rihanna performance! She came in like a comic book villain.
@milkie4407
how bad can i be-
@boiihiu7111
@@milkie4407 omfg-
@Marvette_h
tell me about it
@eonhardy5383
One of her best performance s
@justajumpingypsygirl
It's like she took out the riddler and made herself a way cooler villain using his color scheme.
@juliepollard1532
She's brings a whole new meaning of the little black dress,
@zic720
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@ihuomaotika2656
@@zic720 the most apt response 😂
@talkdattrashimmapullyacard4396
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