Rihanna Gives Update On ‘R9’

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Rihanna is “very aggressively working on music” but she still “can’t say” when she will drop R9.

After taking a break from trolling her fans about her upcoming album, fans rejoiced when Rhi finally made a return to music last week, joining PartyNextDoor on his new single “Believe It.” However, some were wondering why she didn’t get her own verse on the track.

For those clamoring for more from the “Work” singer, Rihanna has given more updates on her upcoming ninth studio album:

“I don’t want all my albums to feel like themes. There are no rules, there’s no format, there’s nothing,” she teased in her cover story interview for British Vogue. “There’s just good music and if I feel it, I’m putting it out.”

“I feel like I have no boundaries. I’ve done everything,” she continues. “I’ve done all the hits, I’ve tried every genre. Now I’m just, I’m wide open. I can make anything that I want.”

Her last update on R9 was in an Instagram story back in February, when she shared a snapshot of a soundboard that looks like it was taken inside a recording studio.

“Gang. back in the STU,” she captioned the photo.

The Insta Story also appears to give clues on who she’s working with – The Neptunes, a.k.a. Pharrell Williams and Chad Hugo’s production team.

Rhi also revealed that she’s working with Pharell on new music.

“I’m going to be in the studio. I’m so excited actually. I can’t say who I’m working with, but it’s somebody I’ve been wanting to work with for a long time,” she told The Cut, before adding, “Okay, I’ll tell you. [It’s] Pharrell.”

She did spill some juicy deets about her album to Vogue last November.

“I like to look at it as a reggae-inspired or reggae-infused album,” Rihanna says. “It’s not gonna be typical of what you know as reggae. But you’re going to feel the elements in all of the tracks.”

“Reggae always feels right to me,” she continues. “It’s in my blood. It doesn’t matter how far or long removed I am from that culture, or my environment that I grew up in; it never leaves. It’s always the same high. Even though I’ve explored other genres of music, it was time to go back to something that I haven’t really homed in on completely for a body of work.”

Plus, she also teased that she’s already in the “discovery stage” of her 10th album!

“We always went into the music this time around saying that we were going to do two different pieces of art,” said Rihanna. “One was gonna be inspired by the music that I grew up listening to. And one was gonna be the evolution of where I’m going next with music.”