Rihanna Raising Hopes Again With Day-In-The-Life Video Montage Featuring Recording Studio Session
R we finally getting "R9?"
Rihanna at the 2025 CFDA Fashion Awards held at The American Museum of Natural History on November 03, 2025 in New York.
What is a night in the life of Rihanna like? As you might imagine, super busy. But at least now we can see just how busy thanks to an 80-second video RihRih posted on Thursday night (Feb. 26) in which she takes Navy on a several hour tour of her bustling fashion and music empire.
Along the way, the singer also dropped the latest hint that her long-awaited ninth studio album — referred to as “R9” if you know — might maybe, possibly, be in the works.
The night opens just before 10 p.m. at a Savage X meeting, where the boss of the fashion brand talks colors and patterns with the team under the strains of Chic’s 1978 Billboard Hot 100 No. 1 disco classic “Le Freak.” The nearly three-hour meeting ends with Rihanna signing vinyl copies of her Loud, Music of the Sun and Good Girl Gone Bad LPs. For the record, the meeting went until 1:45 a.m. and ended with the slap-happy crew cracking up and giggling “approved” to sketches just to get things done.
“I have to go to the studio after this,” Rihanna announces near 2 a.m. “And I have to make a Mardi Gras costume for my son after the studio … longest day ever,” she adds. As the clock rolls toward 2:20, the word “SLEEP” pops up on screen and is quickly scratched out. Miles to go before the mother of three can get some shut-eye, apparently.
Around 3 a.m. we see Rihanna in a recording studio, punching buttons on the console and seemingly writing lyrics while snuggled up under a blanket and a puffer coat as a room full of cohorts hang out around her. This part of the video, unfortunately, has no audio, so we just have to be content with watching Rih vibe out to unheard music, dancing around and smiling as she waves her phone to an unheard beat.
Still not done.
At 5:05 a.m. Rihanna is still at it and starting to get a bit loopy as she goofs around with the team in the studio. “STILL NO SLEEP,” reads the message as the clock ticks toward 7 a.m. That’s when she turns on mom mode and starts working on that Mardi Gras costume she was talking about, hot glue gun in hand, as Chaka Khan’ 1978 soul classic “I’m Every Woman” blasts out amid a flurry of cutting and pasting sparkly fabric.
By 8 a.m. we see Rihanna emerge with her son in tow, rocking his bedazzled jeans and black jacket, with black heart-shaped sunglasses, pink pacifier and an umbrella covered in black sequins and green feathers completing the look; Rihanna has three children with partner A$AP Rocky, three-year-old son RZA Athelston, two-year-old son Riot Rose and six-month-old daughter Rocki Irish Mayers.
By 9:30 a.m., Rih, wearing a bedazzled Mardi Gras mask and a pink SVG x Fenty sweatsuit, packs her son off to school and can finally get some “me” time.
Maybe.
Rihanna recently celebrated the 10th anniversary of her ANTI album, which was released in January 2016 and spent two weeks at No. 1 on the Billboard 200. Since then she has headlines the 2023 Super Bowl LVIII halftime show, released the Black Panther: Wakanda Forever theme “Life Me Up” and voiced Smurfette in last year’s Smurfs movie.
