A$AP Rocky and Rihanna are seen on Oct. 7, 2023, in New York City. Jackson Lee/GC Images
It’s job job job job benefit Rihanna — according to A$AP Rocky. The “Babushka Boi” rap artist was out and around in Paris just recently when followers asked him for an upgrade on the vocalist’s very expected following cd.
In a video shared on X, followers are breaking images of the Grammy-chosen rap artist when one asks him concerning the “Work” vocalist’s nine workshop cd, which she’s been teasing for many years. “She’s working on it!” A$AP claims with a huge smile as he leaves. This, certainly, resulted in prompt screams of enjoyment from those collected around him.
Ri herself has actually been mum since late pertaining to brand-new songs. In December, while at a Fenty x Puma occasion to advertise her brand name’s collab with the sports wear business, the nine-time Grammy champion exercised her experience at evading concerns concerning the follow-up to her latest cd, 2016’s Anti. “I can’t tell you everything, girl,” she claimed with a laugh. “It’s giving crystal ball.”
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Rihanna had actually originally teased that R9 would certainly be getting here simply a couple of brief years after Anti. When a follower asked on an Instagram article in December 2018 when the collection would certainly go down, the “Disturbia” vocalist merely reacted “2019.” She has actually likewise supplied tips concerning its noise occasionally, consisting of throughout a 2021 meeting with The Associated Press. “You’re not going to expect what you hear. Just put that in your mind,” she claimed at the time. “Whatever you know of Rihanna is not going to be what you hear. I’m really experimenting.”
While the brand-new cd has yet to show up, the singer-actress has actually been hectic recently. She and Rocky have actually remained in a partnership for a number of years, and currently share 2 young children — RZA and Riot Rose — with each other. (The moms and dads just recently shared an enchanting Valentine’s Day supper in the City of Light.) Ri has actually likewise remained to expand Fenty, which has actually been so effective, Forbes reported in August 2021 that she had actually gotten to billionaire condition.
Though she’s had plenty on her plate (that can fail to remember when she headlined the 2023 Super Bowl Halftime Show?), she has actually launched some brand-new songs — otherwise an appropriate cd yet. She provided 2 brand-new tracks — both for the Black Panther: Wakanda Forever soundtrack — in late 2022: “Lift Me Up,” a homage to late Black Panther celebrity Chadwick Boseman, and the ballad “Born Again.” “Lift Me Up” got to an optimal of No. 2 on the Billboard Hot 100, and made a Grammy election for finest track created for aesthetic media, in addition to an Oscar nod for finest initial track.
