Please don’t cease the music.
That’s what members of Rihanna’s “Navy” of followers have implored of the famous person, who hasn’t launched an album since 2016’s Anti.”
And now that the singer has revealed that she is pregnant together with her third youngster with A$AP Rocky — making her child bump debut on the Met Gala on Monday night time — she was requested if her long-awaited ninth studio LP, known as “R9,” is likely to be additional delayed.
“Noooooo!” she instructed Leisure Tonight, though she admitted some features may need to attend. “Maybe a couple videos. But I can [still] sing.”
Rihanna, 37, already shares sons RZA, practically 3, and Riot Rose, 1, with Rocky, who was one of many co-chairs of this yr’s Met Gala, held on the Metropolitan Museum of Artwork’s Costume Institute in Manhattan.
As she closed the blue carpet on the star-studded occasion — sporting a cropped Marc Jacobs swimsuit jacket, wool bustier prime and pinstripe skirt — Rihanna joked with reporters that “I brought the kid.”
She added to ET: “I’m shockingly feeling OK and not too overwhelmed at the moment.”
However she admitted to having some points earlier in her being pregnant. “At first, it was kinda like, ‘Ahhhhhhhh,’ and ‘I’m tired,’” the nine-time Grammy winner stated. “But then I’m excited.”
Rocky, 36, additionally gushed about anticipating their third youngster on the Met Gala.
“We were tired of holding that, and it was time to show the people what we was cooking up,” he instructed the Related Press. “I’m glad everybody’s happy for us, because we’re definitely happy.”
Shakira panicked when she thought she by chance revealed Rihanna’s being pregnant on the Met Gala.
“Rihanna, I want to see her! Yeah, I want to see her so bad,” she instructed NBC Information. “And I just heard the news too.”
When the reporter gave the impression to be confused about Shakira’s remark, the Colombian famous person replied, “She’s pregnant.” However rapidly realizing that the reporter didn’t learn about Rihanna’s being pregnant but, she requested, “Was I not supposed to say that?”
Rihanna and Rocky introduced they have been anticipating their first youngster in January 2022 with a candy photoshoot taken in New York Metropolis. Rihanna debuted her child bump whereas sporting a pink jacket, whereas Rocky wore blue.
On the time, the pair didn’t reveal in the event that they have been anticipating a boy or a lady. Their son RZA was born 4 months later.
Lower than a yr later, Rihanna confirmed her second being pregnant whereas performing on the 2023 Tremendous Bowl halftime present. She gave start to Riot Rose that August.
As for “R9,” Rihanna just lately instructed Harper’s Bazaar that opposite to rumors, the album wouldn’t be reggae.
“There’s no genre now. That’s why I waited,” she stated in her March cowl story. “After some time, I checked out it, and I used to be like, this a lot time away from music must rely for the subsequent factor everybody hears. It has to rely. It has to matter.
“I have to show them the worth in the wait,” she continued. “I cannot put up anything mediocre. After waiting eight years, you might as well just wait some more.”
