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Rihanna's Rocky Road to 2010
Joey

Celebrities, Music, Music Video, News & Gossip, Relationships
12/31/2009
2:40 pm

Rihanna - 2009

Sexy-as-hell Barbadian singer Rihanna sure had some year in 2009. It was a year of extreme highs and even more extreme lows…

Back in February, Rihanna’s scheduled performance at the 51st Annual GRAMMY Awards was cancelled due to an “altercation” with her then boyfriend, singer Chris Brown, who was later arrested for assaulting her.

Rihanna recently spoke with MTV News and says that she’s learned a lot over the last year and has been helping young women deal with abuse:

“One of the big things for me is that I always want to help young women and give them insight on different life experiences and one of those things is going through an abusive relationship, like I did. But that is just one thing to me, so I don’t want to be a big domestic violence spokesperson, because that doesn’t define who I am. But if I can help young women in any way and that is one of the things I can help with then I’ll do that.”

And Rihanna knows that Brown has learned from this experience:

“Well, I know he is going away something positive out of this experience. It was a life-changing experience for both of us. The best way that we can both win is if we come out learning from it and sharing with others so they don’t have to go through it like we did.”

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Rihanna actually had a reason to be in the news in 2009 aside from the assault. She collaborated with Jay-Z and Kanye West on Jay’s hit song “Run This Town”, which topped the Billboard Hot 100 chart in December.

Jay-Z, Rihanna & Kanye West – “Run This Town”
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yVA-xTBeHyM[/youtube]

Also, her fourth album, Rated R, hit record stores in November and has, so far, garnered her two smash singles; the dark and ominous “Russian Roulette” and the ghetto fabulous “Hard” featuring Young Jeezy.

Rihanna – “Russian Roulette”
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZQ2nCGawrSY[/youtube]

Rihanna – “Hard” Feat. Young Jeezy
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=80GsdGI53EA[/youtube]

Rihanna also traveled the globe this year appearing at numerous red carpet events and TV shows as well as touring with ex-Extreme guitarist Nuno Bettencourt for her live, rock flavored Rated R tour.

Rihanna – “Live Your Life/Run This Town” Live in London
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2sROOODaa2w[/youtube]