Rihanna Spells It Out: Chris Brown Duet Still ‘Nobody’s Business’

“We don’t focus on the media, so it was never a question. It’s all about the music. Everything else doesn’t even play a part in the studio,” he explains in the magazine, noting that Rihanna’s longtime mentor Jay-Z also signed off on it. “The-Dream didn’t write it for them as a duet. Jay-Z and I were in the car together listening to the song, and we thought it would be a great duet. It sounds dope. It feels good. That’s how Chris ended up on the song.”

It was hardly the first time that Rihanna and The-Dream worked with Brown on music in a post-assault world. Last year, long before they became more public with one another, they appeared on remixes of each other’s songs; his “Turn Up the Music” and a new version of her Talk That Talk tune, ”Birthday Cake.” The-Dream was a part of the process of bringing the new “Birthday Cake” to life, and he shared with MTV News that it was her idea to work with Brown again. READ MORE

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