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Rocking her golden mohawk and a bad-ass, sexy onesie with a sword-shaped microphone stand, Rihanna rocked the crowd at the Super Bowl’s Pepsi Fan Jam on Thursday night in Miami. She sang “Wait Your Turn”, “Live Your Life” and “Disturbia”, her No. 1 hit written by her ex Chris Brown.

Before heading to the Super Bowl, she sat down with an L.A. radio station and said she is pulling for New Orleans to beat Indianapolis in the upcoming Super Bowl because its the Saints’ first appearance and would be a great comeback from Hurricane Katrina. She also talked about “Tick Tock” singer Kesha’s crush on her and how she also admires Kesha.

By Teneshia LaFaye
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During a recent radio interview with radio and TV host Carson Daly, Rihanna said she’s not a fan of her boyfriend Matt Kemp’s L.A. Dodgers team because she doesn’t “know anything about baseball”.
In response, Carson Daly joked, “I have a feeling you’re getting up to speed rather quick, especially first, second and third base.”
Hilarious!
Rihanna also told Carson that she has received a lot of offers to break into acting in movies because of her popular “Shy Ronnie” skit on Saturday Night Live last year that has become viral on the Internet.
I wouldn’t be surprised if Rihanna and SNL’s Andy Samberg get nominated for an Emmy Award, just as Justin Timberlake did for two SNL performances with Samberg.

Yet Rihanna, who performed for millions of viewers on NBC’s New Year’s Eve with Carson Daly, said she didn’t get an invitation to perform at the 52nd Annual Grammys Awards being held today because “we messed their show up pretty bad last year”.
She was referring to her and her ex Chris Brown skipping their scheduled individual Grammys performances after Brown brutally beat her the night before.
Listen to Rihanna’s entire interview with Carson Daly.

By Teneshia LaFaye
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Rihanna appears to be fully recovered from her humiliation nearly a year ago after the public found out about her physical abuse at the hands of her then-boyfriend and now ex Chris Brown.
After numerous interviews at the end of the year to help young girls learn from her experience, Rihanna used her voice to help millions of NBC viewers ring in New Year’s.

Then she spent the first couple weeks of 2010 with her new boyfriend, L.A. Dodgers outfielder Matt Kemp, relaxing in Mexico and attending NBA games.
Now, the Barbados-born singer has turned her attention to the Haiti crisis, where two massive earthquakes hit earlier this month to kill an estimated 100,000 and leave millions hungry and homeless.
Appearing on The Oprah Show on Wednesday, Rihanna sang Bob Marley’s “Redemption Song” to draw attention to the suffering in Haiti, which is not far from her Caribbean homeland. Rihanna’s version of the song can be purchased on Itunes, and the proceeds will go to Haiti relief.
Rihanna said Marley’s song helped her get through difficult problems in her life. Ironically, Oprah sent a message to Rihanna that “he will hit you again” when she went back to Chris Brown last February after a photo of her battered face was leaked to the media. But Oprah didn’t mention the incident when Rihanna appeared on the show Wednesday.
Then on Friday, Rihanna teamed with Jay-Z and U2’s Bono to sing “Stranded” during the networks’ “Hope for Haiti Now” telethon to raise money for Haiti relief efforts.

So Rihanna recovered from her personal pity party just in time to use her talents to lift the spirits of others.

By Teneshia LaFaye
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When Kanye West is in a music sound room, there’s no doubt he’s going to produce a No. 1 hit song for himself or another artist.
But when he steps to the microphone at a live event, there’s no telling what he’s going to say, and judging from Kanye’s history, it’s not good. Remember his 2005 Grammys acceptance speech. NBC’s Hurricane Katrina relief telethon in which he said “George Bush doesn’t care about black people.” The Taylor Swift/MTV Video Music Awards fiasco. And a few other public outbursts.
So Kanye West is being banned from joining other celebrities at 8 p.m. Eastern Friday during MTV’s “Hope For Haiti” fundraising concert to raise money for the victims in Haiti, where two massive earthquakes in less than two weeks have left millions homeless, hungry or dead.
Haitian American hip hop artisit Wyclef Jean and Oscar-winning actor George Clooney are hosting the event. Rihanna, U2’s Bono, Jay-Z, Coldplay, Bruce Springsteen are some of the dozens of big names who will perform.
Rihanna and Jay-Z will perform a new song called “Stranded”. Last year, Kanye West was making the rounds with Rihanna and Jay-Z to perform their hit song, “Run This Town”. But after Kanye’s VMA outburst, he gave a final performance with Jay-Z and Rihanna on The Jay Leno Show and announced that he would take time off to self reflect because he never properly grieved his mother’s sudden death from a botched cosmetic surgery in 2007.
So far, Kanye has kept his word and laid low.
And I think he would be a helper rather than a hindrance if he were allowed to participate in the Haiti fundraiser based on how he has kept his mouth shut for going on three months and spent the Christmas holidays serving food to L.A.’s homeless with his model girlfriend Amber Rose by his side.

By Teneshia LaFaye
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Rihanna’s good girl image has definitely gone bad.
She hoped to set an example for young women in violent relationships by leaving Chris Brown and telling her account of her abuse at the hands of the R&B singer earlier this year.
But domestic violence is the only area Rihanna, whose new album is appropriately titled Rated R, expects to be a role model.

In a recent interview with New York City radio host Angie Martinez, Rihanna opened up about her fascination with grabbing other women’s boobs, flirting and dancing with girls at clubs, getting wasted and of course Chris Brown and the old rumors of getting between Jay-Z and Beyonce.

Rihanna also addressed speculation that she is part of the Illuminati, an underground group of the world elite who worship the devil and attempt to control the world.
Rihanna just sounds like many other 21-year-old women, only her actions are under the microscope because she is a celebrity and is considered a role model to young girls, whether she likes it or not.
Listen to her no-holds barred radio interview.

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Rihanna is showing a much tougher side these days. It’s probably her way of coping with her highly publicized abuse at the hands of her ex Chris Brown earlier this year.
The latest release from her new Rated R album is the song “Hard” with gangsta rapper Young Jeezy, and in the video, Rihanna totes a machine gun. She actually has a gun tattoed on the right side of her rib cage.

Recently, the Barbados-born Rihanna revealed that she would like to move into acting and play the role of a lesbian assassin with Transformers beauty Megan Fox by her side.
Ironically, Rihanna and Megan each have been quoted saying: “All humans are born with the ability to be attracted to both sexes. I mean, I could see myself in a relationship with a girl.” It seems kind of odd that both would utter the exact same words, but GQ magazine quoted Megan and the UK’s Daily Star quoted Rihanna.
And women voted Megan, 23, and Rihanna, 21, among Heat magazine’s top 10 most enviable bodies in the world.
In another twist, actor Shia LeBeouf has dated Megan, his Transformers co-star, and Rihanna.

By Teneshia LaFaye
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I’m a big fan of Rihanna’s music and style, but I was very disturbed when I received her new CD as an early Christmas present.
The album is appropriately titled Rated R because teenagers, especially impressionable girls, should not be exposed to this CD.
The CD’s booklet includes many disturbing pictures, including several topless and semi-nude photos and a spread of Rihanna striking several poses with devil horns. On the first page, there is a pic of Rihanna with a bag wrapped tightly around her head with the nostrils stuffed.
Another page pulls out the phrase: “I lick the gun when I’m done…” and another page screams, “I’m such a f—king lady”.
Then there’s the actual music that sets the atmosphere for suicide and gun violence, especially the album’s first release “Russian Roulette” and “G4L”.
You won’t find the catchy and inspirational tunes like “Umbrella” and “Take a Bow” from Rihanna’s 2007 Good Girl Gone Bad album on Rated R, which can be renamed Girl Goes Over The Edge.
Rihanna has gone too far to prove her toughness after enduring domestic violence at the hands of her ex, singer Chris Brown.
After listening to most of the CD and uploading it onto a Mac and IPod, my friend and I were equally disturbed and agreed that the “gift” should be returned.
I’m very disappointed that Rihanna, a talented and beautiful artist who considers herself to be a role model for young women, would put out such a disturbing album that can inflict all sorts of damage on her fans.

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New York City gym teacher Brad Ferro has been vilified for being caught on tape delivering a single knock-out punch to one of the women in a bar on MTV reality show Jersey Shore.
But imagine if singer Chris Brown’s beating of his pop star ex Rihanna had been caught on tape. Brown delivered multiple punches, bit and threatened to kill Rihanna last February.
Chris’ career took a dive this year while he faced trial on two felony charges for the incident, and now he’s trying to bounce back with his newly released album, Graffiti, which is No. 2 on Itunes, with popular songs “Transform Ya” and “Crawl”.
However, some stores are refusing to stock his new album that was released Tuesday, and Chris recently went on a profanity-filled Twitter tirade to prove that he hasn’t changed much from the man who abused Rihanna. But after several days of rants, Chris has canceled his Twitter account.
But Brad deserves a break from all of the backlash.
After all, Chris was not drunk and was well aware of his actions, and Brad was clearly drunk when he slugged Nicole Polizzi during their barroom dispute in August. He has been fined $500 for pleading guilty to simple assault and taking anger management classes, like Brown. His former North Queens High students are defending him, and he is using his brief error in judgment to warn students of the consequences of consuming alcohol.
Hopefully, Chris finally learns from his own temper tantrums and decides to become a role model for young men.

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Rihanna has kept silent about the domestic violence attack that left her bitten and battered at the hands of her ex-boyfriend Chris Brown in February.

She even kept quiet while Chris sent out an “I’m not a monster” youTube video in June, released an apology video in July and then appeared on Larry King Live in September to talk about the incident.
Finally as the year draws to a close and with a new album out, Rihanna has decided to break her silence on Good Morning America.

During the interview with Diane Sawyer that has aired in pieces Thursday and Friday, Rihanna expressed embarrassment for dating Brown and going back to him even after a gruesome leaked LAPD photo of her bloody, battered face. She said she realized that she risked the lives of young girls who admired her and may have decided to stay with their abusive boyfriends because of the pop star’s example. After Sawyer said it normally takes a woman seven attempts to leave an abusive relationship, Rihanna said it took her 8 or 9 attempts to leave Chris Brown.
Rihanna’s full Good Morning America interview airs on ABC’s 20/20 at 10 p.m. Friday. But before that, Chris Brown, who has given several radio interviews, will have his MTV interview aired at 6 p.m.
Brown’s new album, Graffiti, is scheduled to be released in December. Rihanna’s album, Rated R, is set to be released later this month. So the two hitmakers will likely continue to battle it out on record charts.

By Teneshia LaFaye
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Russian Roulette is usually played out in movies during gangster shakedowns, and it’s a common form of suicide for real-life soldiers and police officers. The game entails loading a single bullet into a six-round gun and pulling the trigger to decide whether you live or die.
Singer and actor Ne-Yo decided to make the deadly game into an art form by writing the song “Russian Roulette”, and the Grammy Award winning songwriter immediately imagined mysterious, sexy singer Rihanna sitting across a table from someone with a gun between them.
Well, it’s not too hard to imagine Rihanna across the table in a civil dispute because she acted out a similar scene in a music video with Maroon 5 frontman Adam Levine in the remix of the band’s hit song, “If I Never See Your Face Again”.
Not long before, Rihanna recorded a video with Ne-Yo for their hit duet, “Hate That I Love You”, that Ne-Yo penned. Ne-Yo also wrote Rihanna’s hit song, “Take a Bow”.

So Rihanna didn’t hesitate when Ne-Yo asked her to sing “Russian Roulette”, and the song is the first release from her fourth album Rated R, due out Nov. 23.

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