Kanye West Confirms He's Executive Producing Rihanna's New Album

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The 'Bound 2' hitmaker reveals on the red carpet of the 2015 Grammy Awards how he got RiRi interested to work with him.

February 9, 2015

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Kanye West is not only featured in Rihanna's new single "FourFiveSeconds", but he is also executive producing her upcoming album. The rapper confirmed it himself when stepping on the red carpet of the 57th annual Grammy Awards on Sunday, February 8.

The "Mercy" hitmaker, who came with wife Kim Kardashian to the star-studded event, told Ryan Seacrest, "I'm executive producing Rihanna's album." He went on sharing, "I played her my album. And I said, 'I got a few songs with Paul McCartney. She couldn't get past the record. She had to have it on her album. So now we're at the Grammys doing it."

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Rihanna, West and McCartney were scheduled to perform "FourFiveSeconds", the lead single off RiRi's eighth studio album, at the Grammy Awards which is currently taking place at the Staples Center in Los Angeles. The rapper was additionally set to perform his own single, "Only One".

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