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Rihanna Opens Up About Leaked Police Photo as “Hard” Hits the Net

11/3/09, 9:12 am EST

Just hours after Rihanna’s second Rated R single “Wait Your Turn” leaked and her reps confirmed the LP’s track list and guests, a third Rated R song found its way onto the Internet: “Hard,” featuring Young Jeezy. Written by The-Dream, “Hard” appears to be the song producer “Tricky” Stewart previously called an edgy “club banger,” Rolling Stone reported. The pair were also the brains behind Rihanna’s smash “Umbrella,” a song that’s more like “Hard” than the reflective “Russian Roulette” and “Wait Your Turn.” “No fear … I’m so hard,” Rihanna sings over a swirl of synthesizers and a pounding piano. “Brilliant, resilient. … I see you aiming at my pedestal so I think I better let you know that I’m so hard.” Hear “Hard” after the jump.

Check out Rihanna’s most fierce looks.

Rihanna is slated to appear in a pair of ABC News interviews, and Glamour has named her Woman of the Year in their next issue. In the magazine interview, Rihanna explains how her February altercation with then-boyfriend Chris Brown turned her life upside down: “I felt like I went to sleep as Rihanna and woke up as Britney Spears. That was the level of media chaos that happened the next day.”

Watch Rihanna’s new video for “Wait Your Turn” here.

Rihanna doesn’t mention Brown — who pleaded guilty to assault and was sentenced to probation, anger-management classes and community labor. But she expresses disappointment over the leaked police photograph from the night of the incident. “It was humiliating; that is not a photo you would show to anybody. I felt completely taken advantage of,” Rihanna says. “I felt like people were making it into a fun topic on the Internet, and it’s my life. I was disappointed, especially when I found out the photo was [supposedly leaked by] two women.”

Rihanna adds that the experience has made her “stronger, wiser and more aware.”

Hear “Hard” here:

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geegley | 11/3/2009, 10:41 am EST

she sucks!

Anonymous | 11/3/2009, 11:14 am EST

she’s amazing.

babygirl | 11/3/2009, 12:01 pm EST

rihanna is the best

elanor | 11/3/2009, 12:48 pm EST

i think she is just a very nice a very good singer she is the best

JL | 11/3/2009, 1:03 pm EST

why was she named “Woman of the Year”?

Ms | 11/3/2009, 1:40 pm EST

EGO’S ARE GARBAGE!!!! SO IS THIS SONG!!!

uyfy | 11/3/2009, 1:56 pm EST

So she’s Woman of the year, because she got beat up by her boyfriend? What has she actually done this year?

T | 11/3/2009, 3:32 pm EST

Ri is my girl….keey ya head up…you are a strong black girl

Weegie | 11/3/2009, 3:47 pm EST

I love Rihanna.

Hunni | 11/3/2009, 4:02 pm EST

Lol Rihanna aint the best singer but shez Ok

shinbbz | 11/3/2009, 4:18 pm EST

she aint gd at singin she iz rubbish
she finks dat she iz all dat but she aint
she aint got swagga in er lyf
she need help
help er
i glad chris brown beat er up

FUCK YOU RIHANNA U FARKEN BITCH

P.S SHE NEEDZ HELP HELP ER

ciera | 11/3/2009, 4:19 pm EST

i think her new song is hot whoever got anything negative to say about her is a straight hater!!

me again | 11/3/2009, 4:24 pm EST

The beating will probably be the best thing for her career. Americans like to eat garbage.

Norma | 11/3/2009, 4:24 pm EST

Glamor magazine has one goal and that is selling covers. If getting beat up by a boyfriend, then slinking back to them, and doing absolutely no public speaking on domestic violence is the criteria for Woman of the Year, then I guess she wins hands down.

CHARL | 11/3/2009, 5:19 pm EST

love u Ri.this song is hot.haters r fellas and loosers

rainey | 11/3/2009, 7:33 pm EST

Woman of The Year for what? What has she done? Getting beat up by her boyfriend, then go into hiding then re-emerge in public by wearing skimpy outfits, hitting the clubs and fashion shows? Her album isn’t even out yet, it may flop for all we know, so what exactly has she accomplished in 2009 to deserve the honor of “Woman of The Year”? Didn’t do any charity work, didn’t give back to the community, didn’t accomplish anything career-wise. In that case Lindsay Lohan should’ve won. It is too obvious that her record label arranged this with the magazine so she can sell records. She didn’t want to talk about the incident before, now she’s giving interviews about it left and right just as her album is about to drop. And than you SS, for pointing out what a hypocrite Rihanna is for comparing her ordeal to Britney Spears, when just a couple years ago she was laughing at her. Now the shoe is on the other foot, and she knows what it’s like to be unfairly judged by the world. I hope someone laughs at her when she’s performing at American Music Awards later this month. She has even less talent than Britney, on top of not being able to sing she can’t even dance. I don’t know how got a record contract, apart from her looks.

um | 11/3/2009, 11:25 pm EST

can someone please delete the comments about ri and violence? disgusting.

ano | 11/3/2009, 11:41 pm EST

well said rainey

american | 11/4/2009, 12:21 am EST

How many people need to say it. Rihanna CANNOT sing. Nekkid all over the place AND cant sing = “Woman of the Year” > WTF!!

alal | 11/4/2009, 2:58 am EST

2 observations:
there is a lot of black slang on this disscusion
more people think she sucks than than they think she is good. If you do like rhianna remember its her record company and songwriters that you really like

sam | 11/4/2009, 9:33 am EST

what if rhianna was some big fat chic with the same voice would she be as popular? right….so what exactly is her talent?

GFunk | 11/4/2009, 11:22 am EST

It’s interesting how Britney Spears is now like an adjective that means “extreme or intense media attention.”

in reply to sam | 11/4/2009, 12:53 pm EST

but she IS hot. And her sounds are cool. Her voice is sexy as hell.

HHR | 11/5/2009, 9:55 am EST

Hot Hood Rat

ladyspade | 11/5/2009, 4:40 pm EST

which label is cutting any of you a check? NONE? Shut up already! who cares if she is wack to you? dotn buy her music, better yet, dont listen. She shouldnt have mentioned Brit but hey freedom of speech people!

sexyashell,butaintnohoe | 11/5/2009, 5:07 pm EST

i think rinhanna suck,she accusing chris brown of whoppiing her ass maybe she deserved it.if someone beat me i think i would just forget them all together i wouldnt be sneaking and seeing them.maybe he didnt really beat her,maybe he just gave her a taste of real love.

baby face | 11/5/2009, 5:11 pm EST

I think rihanna is aswesome.I think chris shouldnt have hit her but if she wasnt acting crazy she wouldnt have got what she did. And sexyashell,but aint no hoe needs to get a life and stop hating on my girl rihanna

passion | 11/5/2009, 5:16 pm EST

i really like rihanna i think she can really blow,she a very good singer and dancer.may be one day i can be just like her.but i didnt like the fact that my man chris brown have to pick up other people dirty ass trash off the ground just because he hit her.i think she should just forgive him and go back becaus i know deep down she still love him and he love her.so just drop all the bullshit and move on.every one make mistakes and he’s paying his debt.

here and now | 11/6/2009, 1:14 pm EST

Woman of the year? I don’t believe that this title is for her. Rhianna should done alot more then she did, domestic violence is a big problem among young women,she should of used this unfortunate event to help someone else, not wait until her album is about to drop to speak out. I know that it take time to get one self together, but is been since Feb, almost a year. Good luck to you, no one deserves that kind of treatment

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