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Rihanna Teases Update About Upcoming R9 Album, But It’s Not What You Expect

The Fenty Beauty mogul causes quite the commotion with her unofficial announcement. But could she be trolling?

Itโ€™s not unusual for Rihanna to cause conversation with her outfit choices or her music, but the select style she sported on Thursday has got a lot of folks talkingโ€”and slightly panicking. Iโ€™ll explain.

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In paparazzi pics posted online, the โ€œWe Found Loveโ€ singer was spotted outside with boyfriend A$AP Rocky rocking a a vintage 90โ€™s Peacock Papers blue short-sleeved shirt that read: โ€œIโ€™m Retired This Is as Dressed Up as I Get.โ€ She paired it a navy blue maxi skirt, red unreleased FENTY X Puma sneakers and a lime green Bottega Veneta bag.

The message, while highly likely to be just another instance of Rih trolling all of us when it comes to her highly-anticipated yet LONG -AWAITED forthcoming album, was enough to have folks online scrambling at the thought of the โ€œCalifornia King Bedโ€ singer signing out the music game once and for all. Could R9 be her last rodeo?

โ€œnot Rihanna being spotted wearing a โ€œiโ€™m retiredโ€ shirt.. GIRL IF YOU DONโ€™T GET IN THE BOOTH!!,โ€ wrote one user on X/Twitter.

โ€œErrrrm Rihanna u are retired from what? It better be from giving birth. Girl u better drop that album,โ€ said another.

โ€œRihannaโ€™s tshirt says โ€œiโ€™m retiredโ€ and the internet lost it. sheโ€™s such a troll,โ€ commented another.

And potential retirement from music isnโ€™t the only thing Rih is teasing. As previously reported by The Root, just this week, our favorite Barbadian Bad Gal announced the launch of her latest non-musical venture: Fenty Hair. The line is slated to drop June 13.

โ€œHair has always been very personal to me. Itโ€™s an outlet of self expression, creativity. I feel like itโ€™s also been markers of my evolution and growth over the years both as an artist and a person,โ€ she said in the latest promo video teasing the upcoming product line. โ€œSo launching Fenty Hair was something I was really, really passionate about. I wanted to create a lineup of products that were easy to use and included repair in every step. I also needed products that could keep up with me and fit into my lifestyleโ€”which we all know is crazy.โ€

https://twitter.com/rihanna/status/1798445298034917396?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw

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