Rihanna Sheds Her Clothes for Armani

After a good run with Megan Fox, the folks over at Emporio Armani Jeans & Underwear are finally making way for new campaign girl Rihanna to get the Fall season started off right. Shot by Steven Klein, the vibe remains typically Armani in black & white with RiRi posing with an old car in a gradual striptease from denim to lace intimates. I definitely think they could have done better given the magnitude of her hotness, but at least it’s nice to see them incorporating some color in their ads for once, even if it means turning her blond first.

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Bono, Jay-Z, Rihanna, and the Edge Are ‘Stranded’

On Friday night, Bono, Jay-Z, Rihanna, and The Edge performed live as part of Hope for Haiti, a telethon to help raise money for the island nation. The collaborative track, “Stranded (Haiti Mon Amour),” is available on iTunes as is the album featuring numerous musical artists, with all proceeds going to a collective of charities.

Even Rihanna Gets Searched at the Airport

Rihanna was selected for one of those “take off your shoes” searches at LAX recently. Reports the NY Post: It also left the pop star shivering as a female guard patted her down with latex gloves and waved a metal-detecting wand over her body. At one point, Rihanna looked dejected and gripped herself to ward off the draft of the airport air conditioning. She looked noticeably unhappy, wearing a frown throughout the ordeal, which took only a few minutes. |NY Post|

Rihanna Not Quite Finished Explaining How Awful Chris Brown Is

The Rihanna “Chris Brown is a Titanic Piece of Shit” tour rolls on tonight with an appearance on ABC’s 20/20. She says that their infamous fight started when Brown received a text message on his cell phone from a woman not named Rihanna, then he went berserk: “When is it going to stop? When is it going to stop? He had no soul in his eyes. Just blank. He was clearly blacked-out. There was no person when I looked at him.”

Chris Brown is obviously a vampire. |People|

Rihanna: Getting Beat Up by Chris Brown Could Happen to Anyone

In an interview set to air Thursday on Good Morning America, Rihanna, whose new album “Rated R” will be released on November 23rd, talked publicly about the Chris Brown incident for the first time, saying “This happened to me. … It can happen to anyone.” |People|

In an interview with Larry King, convicted girlfriend-puncher Chris Brown compared his abusive relationship with Rihanna to Romeo and Juliet’s, suggesting he doesn’t read much, or is actually gearing up for a star-crossed suicide. |NYDN|

Jay-Z’s Road Warrior Inspired Video Released

The resourceful Germans beat everyone to the punch and posted the first quality version of Jay-Z’s freaky new world premiere video, “Run This Town,” featuring Rihanna and Kanye West. See what Hip Hop fans have been fiending over after the jump. |MissInfo|
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Not really sure why Jay-Z’s new “Run This Town” track featuring Rihanna and Kanye West was scheduled to drop on Hip Hip radio stations at exactly 9:11AM—which it didn’t—but here it is. Download now. |NahRight|

Jay-Z Tells Chris Brown To Beat It At the BET Awards

So there’s a rumor tweeting around the internet that was started by one of Chris Brown’s sparring partners dancers claiming Hov killed a planned Michael Jackson tribute by the woman-beating singer at BET’s poor excuse for an awards show last night. With Brown recently pleading guilty to assaulting one of Jay-Z’s top earners, Rihanna, it seems plausible enough and is creating quiet a stir on Twitter, with one misguided soul starting a “twitition” to have Jay banned from the MTV’s equally horrendous shit show. However, at this point, there’s a better chance of seeing Chris Brown performing clean-up on the side of the rode than Hov not appearing at the VMAs.

Kanye West’s ‘Paranoid’ Video

So here’s the visuals for Kanye West’s auto-tuned atrocity, “Paranoid” from his last album, that features Mr. Hudson on the track, but more importantly stars Rihanna in the video, who the rapper-singer may or may not be fucking. |Nah Right|