Robyn Rihanna Fenty (born February 20, 1988), professionally known by her m… Read Full Bio ↴Robyn Rihanna Fenty (born February 20, 1988), professionally known by her middle name, Rihanna, is a Barbadian singer, songwriter, actress, businesswoman, entrepreneur and fashion designer.

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).

Rihanna_feat._Ruppe_-_Hurricane
Rihanna Lyrics

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Hurricane
Rihanna, Rupee uh
Warning, warning! The hurricanes coming
So all your haters out there, yes you better start running
Lock your doors protect your homes
The hurricanes coming through the microphone
Blowing up right through your zone
Coming straight toward your throne (coming straight for your throne)

Hurricane it's the hurricane (hurricane it's the hurricane)
Blowing holes right through your brain
Hurricane it's the hurricane
Hurricane

(Kill it Rihanna, yo)
Straight out the Carribean sea
You know you gotta feel me
I'm a 1,2,3,4,5 category, and I'm so deadly
Come from the land of Barbados
And you know that I'm more dangerous
I'm coming for the come gonna huff and a puff and blow your house down

You've got to dig this one
Tell them all to run
When it's said and done,
I'll be a champion,
Moving strong and fast,
The industry's forecast
Just put me first and the rest of them last (and the rest of them last)

And the rest of them last (come on girl, uh)
Hurricane it's the hurricane (hurricane hurricane)
Blowing holes right through your brain (straight through your brain)
Hurricane it's the hurricane
Hurricane

So you better be warned
Don't be fooled by the eye of the storm
Cuz when you least expect
Imma creep right in
You best protect your nest
So whoever you are (are)
No matter near or far (far),
Just check your radar,
And look out for Rihanna
You've got to dig this one
Tell them all to run
When it's said and done,
I'l be the champion
Warning, warning! (this is a warning)

Warning, warning! (Rupee, Rihanna)
(coming straight out of Barbados)

Overall Meaning

The song Hurricane by Rihanna and Rupee is an upbeat song about their powerful presence like a hurricane, and how they are coming for their haters. The lyrics are almost like a warning, as they state that the hurricane is coming and that everyone should lock their doors and protect their homes. The hurricane is used as a metaphor for their unstoppable force and power, and how they're going to blow people's minds with what they're capable of.

The song contains Rihanna's signature Caribbean sound, as she mentions that she is from Barbados, and it's where the song takes its inspiration from. Rihanna's verse talks about how deadly she is, and she's a one to five-category hurricane- which are very destructive hurricanes. She's unstoppable and will huff and puff to blow anyone's house down who gets in her way. The catchy chorus repeatedly proclaims "hurricane," emphasizing their power.

Overall, the song is a fun and catchy song about the power that Rihanna and Rupee possess in the music industry, and how they're going to come in strong and make their mark.

Line by Line Meaning

Warning, warning! The hurricanes coming
I'm about to drop some fire in the form of Hurricane, so all of you haters better be ready to run.

Lock your doors protect your homes
I'm the Hurricane coming through the microphone and blowing up your world through your sound system, so you better lock your doors and protect your homes.

The hurricanes coming through the microphone
I'm bringing a storm to your ears in the form of Hurricane, which I'm dropping through the microphone.

Hurricane it's the hurricane
I'm the Hurricane, and lyrically speaking, I'm about to blow holes right through your brain.

Blowing holes right through your brain
My words are so powerful that they're going to penetrate your mind and leave a lasting impression that you won't forget any time soon.

Straight out the Carribean sea
I hail from the beautiful island of Barbados, which is nested in the turquoise waters of the Caribbean sea.

You know you gotta feel me
Listen to my music and feel the vibes that I'm trying to convey, which are powerful and electrifying.

I'm a 1,2,3,4,5 category, and I'm so deadly
I'm a force to be reckoned with, and my lyrical abilities are so powerful that they can cause destruction and chaos if you're not careful.

I'm coming for the come gonna huff and a puff and blow your house down
I'm coming for everyone who wants to challenge me, and I'm about to rip through you like a hurricane and leave you with nothing but rubble and dust.

Tell them all to run
Send a message to all those who doubt my skills and tell them to run because I'm about to show them how it's done.

When it's said and done, I'll be a champion
After all is said and done, I'll be the winner, and everyone will see that I deserve to be champion.

Moving strong and fast, The industry's forecast
I'm moving quickly to the top, and the industry knows it, as it's already predicted that I'll be a major player in the game.

Just put me first and the rest of them last
Recognize my talent and place me at the top of the list, with everyone else falling behind me.

So you better be warned
Listen up, because I'm coming for you, and you should be aware of my skills and abilities.

Don't be fooled by the eye of the storm
Don't think that I'm just an artist who's calm and collected; I'm a force to be reckoned with and can cause damage at any moment.

Imma creep right in
Watch out, because I'm sneaking up on you and will take you by surprise with my hurricane force.

You best protect your nest
Be careful and protect what's yours because I'm coming to take it if you're not prepared.

No matter near or far, Just check your radar
I'm a force to be reckoned with no matter where you are, so be sure to check your radar and recognize my presence.

And look out for Rihanna
Be on high alert because I'm coming for you, and my music will leave a lasting impression that you won't forget any time soon.

Warning, warning!
I'm issuing a warning that I'm about to drop some sick music that's going to change the game and blow your mind.

Rupee, Rihanna
I'm letting you know that Rupee and I are here to take over the game and make sure that everyone knows our name.

Coming straight out of Barbados
We're coming straight out of Barbados, and we're here to prove that we're a force to be reckoned with in the music game.

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