Rihanna Addresses ‘R9’ Album Delay: I’ve Got Other Babies To Turn To, But I’ll Never Neglect It

“‘R9’ has been affected tremendously over the years, basically, because I’ve got other babies to turn to and so it’s not all of my attention on one. But I love making music so I never neglect it. I always get to it and get back to it, but there’s other things on the carousel now. So I have to pay attention to everything and stay on top of everything. I’m just that way and music sometimes takes a hit naturally because these other things are crucial in terms of timelines and production and there’s so much that people will NEVER understand that goes on behind the scenes. But I love what I do and it all started with music and music is still my first love and so I can’t wait to put something out that I’m really proud of and excited about.”

Rihanna

It probably is going to be sooner than my fans think, but I’m just gon’ leave that alone. I got enough stress and questions and R9 and ‘where’s the album’ comments! They don’t leave me alone but I haven’t neglected them, like, I still got you. Music is still my baby.

My fans? They want it and they want it now. I remember this specifically when I was making ‘Anti.’ It was my first day in the studio…first date, which is, like, you’re still really early in the discovery stages, right? And a paparazzi caught me going into the studio. After that, they [the fans] thought my album was coming out that week. And so ‘Anti’ to them took forever but I could have just worked on that. So anytime you give them a little bit of information like ‘yeah, I’m working on music,’ they expect it to come now because in the past it’s worked like that. In the past, I’ll just shoot an album out in three months but now, I don’t have the luxury of doing that because I have other other other babies.