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(She agreed to ease the restraining order in 2011.) The singer’s still on probation for bashing her. During an emotional interview with Oprah this summer, she said Chris needed help at the time. In 2009 her former boyfriend beat her up so bad she had to go to the hospital.
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The crowd does a double take, like _Chris Brown? Here we go! _ The last name reverberates over a clamorous 2 Chainz track. Then the DJs shout out names of the stars there that night: Chris Rock, Dave Chappelle, Rihanna, and Chris Brown. She’s detached, rocking hypnotically, slow-dancing solo. But by the time we get there, Rihanna’s mood has noticeably shifted. WE all head out to a club in the meatpacking district, Griffin. It’s gotta be tweet, retweet, trending topic!" The group erupts with laughter, and she chides The-Dream: "You need to write me that shit. It’s going down! Her ass gyrates circles into the edge of the hotel room bed, and the blankets come untucked. Now she starts riffing on The-Dream’s song "Foreplay," half-whispering, half-droning: Bitch, fuck the foreplay, I want it now. The effect is uncanny, that eeriness to her voice the hair on the back of your neck stands up, but your body starts moving. I want it to be real, authentic, and raw." In a song like "We Found Love," her biggest hit ever, Rihanna combines Lee "Scratch" Perry’s lo-fi intonations with dark, almost dystopian lyrics and somehow produces a catchy dance tune. "I just want it to have the feeling that brings you out of whatever you’re going through. Nothing corny or supersentimental," she told me. "I want to make music that’s hopeful, uplifting. The-Dream beat-bos, pounding his fist against the door. A former drum-line player, he wrote Beyoncé’s "Single Ladies" and Rihanna’s megahit "Umbrella." She harmonizes various samples: Ozzy Osbourne’s "Crazy Train," Van Morrison’s "Gloria," a little Patti Smith. Her producer, The-Dream, comes in, wearing gold diamond-studded Jesus doubloons that hang down to his belt, a Rolex on each wrist. Highlights from Basketball Wives play on the TV. Members of her entourage sit on suitcases. Rihanna’s penthouse at the Hotel Gansevoort looks like the cargo hold of the Titanic after hitting the iceberg. But I think everybody still has their limits." Lastly, any boundaries I should know about? "Love makes you go places you probably wouldn’t ever go, had it not been for love. How do I say this in like a.non-X-rated version?" Right.
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"I could absolutely be dominant," she answers. "I have to be in control in every other aspect of my life, so I feel like in a relationship, like I wanted to be able to take a step back and have somebody else take the lead." Do you ever switch things up? I ask. I ask what turns her on, because I know she’ll answer. The more you hear people talk about ’Oh, you’re a sex symbol,’ it just makes you think, ’Why are you saying that?’ And I figured it out." "I was a lot more naive about the way I moved and the way I was being perceived. "That’s just the way it’s always been, and I think that for people, especially in America, they make it like the forbidden fruit, but that only makes kids more curious." When Rihanna was starting out, after being discovered by a vacationing music producer in Barbados, she didn’t realize she was doing anything other than what she had grown up doing in the dance halls. "That comes from my culture," she says with her Bajan steel-drum accent. She once said she wants to be "the black Madonna." But there’s none of the Material Girl’s self-conscious Catholic angst here. And there’s her tabloid-epic personal life (we’ll get to that). Online, she’ll tweet a chicken-soup Bible passage to her 26 million followers and then an Instagram shot of a stripper’s head between her thighs. Onstage, she’ll tap out the beat on her pussy and croon lyrics like Suck my cockiness, lick my persuasion. Rihanna, on the other hand, comes off as wild, weird, unfiltered, a little unhinged, which just makes everyone else go all unhinged. But those are one-woman masquerade balls, their real selves hidden behind the next costume change. She sometimes gets grouped with theatrical pop stars like Katy Perry, Lady Gaga, and Nicki Minaj.