How do you top a monster hit like “Umbrella”? For Tricky Stewart, the answer is easy. You don’t. The hitmaker behind 2007’s chart-topper speaks exclusively with Rap-Up.com about producing the biggest album of Rihanna’s career.
There are reports that Rihanna’s fourth album will drop before the end of the year. Is that true?
I do believe it is. We’re actually just getting started. I just wrote some records that I’m in love with this past week. Rihanna and I will be getting in the studio sometime in the next two weeks, so we actually have not recorded anything for her new album yet.
Do you set out with the intention to top a hit like “Umbrella”?
I just try to chase greatness and I try to do what at the time is going to be something that is looked at as truly great. You can’t say what record is gonna be a bigger hit than whatever because the hit is always about the connection of how the people feel about what you’ve done. You can never get a gauge on that until the record is actually out. You can make records with your instincts to try to top what you did as far as the greatness that you put into the last record.
Are you going to keep the sound similar to her last album, Good Girl Gone Bad, or try something completely different?
Man, you know we can’t do that. We come out with something that sounds like “Umbrella,” they’re gonna be saying that we tried to do something that sounded like “Umbrella.” That’s not what the great artists do. They don’t even allow you to do stuff like that. Every great artist always wants to hear something they’ve never heard before.
What’s it like working with Rihanna?
She’s just a pleasure. She’s a very sweet, down-to-earth person. You would never know how successful she is ’cause she’s just so nice and warm. I guess maybe it’s her background of being from the islands. She’s just a really sweet, warm person to be around.
How did “Umbrella” change your life?
“Umbrella” changed my life because it was the first hit record that made people want to know who I was. I’ve had hit records before with [Mya's] “Case of the Ex” and JT Money’s “Who Dat” and records here and there, but this was the first record that people go, “I wanna know what that guy is. I wanna know who those guys are.” That was the biggest thing. At that point when that light came on, [The-Dream and I] had been down in Atlanta just getting ready for that moment, so we were really prepared for the ride.
I would love to write a jam for rihanna! if i could write a duet for rihanna and teedra moses that would be the ultimate for ms kitten! :cat:
shoo, she hasn’t recorded anything with Tricky stewart yet, is this album really coming out this year, I am starting to doubt it.
rihanna eu mao aquela musica hatin on the club feat the dream linda
a musica te amoooooooooooooo rihannaaaaaaaaaaaa so louca pra te conhecer rihanna :teeth: :cry: :inlove: :onthephone: :hugleft: :shutmouth: :quiet: :lying: :struggle:
…here it is a video that shows Rihanna meeting Karl Lagerfeld and shows her watching the show as well…
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@ Lizzy.la.la. ..thanks for the info of the tweets…
..and yeah i think they probably would be :pissedoff: if anything had taken attention of their show….
…they probably will flight to Berlin tomorrow or Wednesday …
…and about the single the only thing that we can do is wait…lol.. :waiting: … :-))
It looks like Rihanna’s glam-squad will be going straight to Berlin from Paris, for the album shoot….
Her stylist tweeted earlier today asking
did anyone know of any interesting boutiques in Paris —— that are off the radar….
Her make-up artist tweeted that she’d received the eye-lashes needed for the shoot…..
Every day this week the blogs/media sites have discussed what Rihanna wore to each show, and the emphasis was solely on Rihanna the fashion icon…
I think the Designers would have been pretty pissed off, if the single had leaked mid-week, turning the emphasis back on Rihanna the pop-star….
So any PFW contract will end tomorrow, leaving her free to leak the single…
Her stylist sed they were goin shopping..from unknown designers…
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She was with Akon in the studio in Paris… :-)