In being named artist of the decade (has she really been around that long already?), Rihanna has done a lot more than make music. She discusses becoming the international star she is with West Coast DJ/radio personality DJ Skee and how she’d handling the pressure.

Oh and she chooses between Jay Z and Kanye West.

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Not really sure what Rihanna is trying to prove, but it’s been fun watching her these past few months. The hair, the costume, the skin… it’s all about evolution and we support it 1000%.

This heavily anticipated video with Young Jeezy doesn’t disappoint in the way of her growth. Lots of coochie grabbing, gun toting and skin showing on RiRi’s part. As for her guest collaborator Jeezy? He takes yet another opportunity to remind us all where he came from and why he’s the perfect candidate to lend bars about that speak to street cred and durability.

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The irony in this whole Chrihanna episode is that the former couple is still so connected.

However much her camp says she doesn’t want him or can’t bear the thought of seeing him again, rumors surfaced that they were in the same hotel.

Her album artwork is released, his is leaked days later… and so on.

Now, as Rihanna prepares to sit down in front of the world on Friday to bash CB discuss her relationship gone bad, MTV appeals to an apologetic Brown.

This is but an appetizer of what will surely be in depth discourse between Sway and the VA vocalist the same day @ 6 PM.

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You never know what you’re going to get these days in the way of Rihanna’s fashion sense. In this instance, it’s her album cover, Rated R, and with respect to what she’s done over the past few months, milder than we would have thought.

The play on words is obvious, but it would have been nice to see some skin… Classy kinda went out the window with see thru shirt(s) (she gets a pass on the her and CB leaks… we figure she didn’t know).

Maybe the racy pics will be somewhere by the liner notes.