Rihanna and A$AP Rocky are both working on eagerly anticipated new albums, and it appears they’re lending their talents to each other’s projects — as unofficial A&Rs, at least.
RiRi spoke with Entertainment Tonight at the launch party for her FENTY x Puma Creeper Phatty Earth Tone sneaker in London on Wednesday (April 17), where she shed more light on her upcoming ninth album.
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After being asked if her children, RZA and Riot, will be featured on the record, Rihanna offered up some exciting news.
“I mean, it’s up to them,” she said. “I already got stuff that I feel like I can make hits out of. Me and Rocky are really trying to figure out who’s gonna use what because it’s so good!”
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When asked about the visuals for the as-yet-untitled album, Rihanna kept mum: “I can’t tell you! That would be me, like, snitching on my record.”
Check out the clip below, with her comments about her album beginning at the 3:20 mark.
Rihanna has been more forthcoming about her long-awaited ANTI follow-up of late.
Earlier this month, she spoke about her creative process while making the album and explained how her approach differs compared to previous projects.
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“I have a lot of visual ideas,” she told Interview magazine. “It’s weird. My brain is working backward right now. I usually have the music first, and the music leads me into all of these visual opportunities, and now I’m having all of these visuals.
“I don’t have the songs for them yet, but maybe that’s the key, this time. Maybe the visual ideas are leading me to the songs that I need to make.”
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When asked if the album will be a “rebirth” for her, she replied: “Random ideas, quirky ideas, things that have nothing to do with me at all. I mean, I can’t tell you. The opps is watching.”
A$AP Rocky has also been teasing a new project for some time, with his last, TE$TING, arriving back in 2018.
In an interview with DAZED magazine in October, the Harlem rapper fueled excitement for the album, tentatively titled Don’t Be Dumb, by claiming it’ll top his previous efforts.
“I’ve been really experimenting as usual and what I like about this is it feels like my best work yet,” he said. “I want to leave expectations wide and open. I don’t want to tell you what to expect. I just want people to experience it how they do naturally.”
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Rocky has dropped two potential singles so far, “Same Problems?” and the Pharrell-produced “Riot (Rowdy Pipe’n),” but much like his wife’s new album, it remains without a release date.
