Recently we reported that Chris Brown and Rihanna have collaborated on two songs, sending the internet in to a frenzy. Now, the producer of Rihanna’s song “Birthday Cake” says that the idea to include Chris Brown was all her’s.
Speaking to Billboard.com, The Dream mentioned that the idea to have Chris Brown on the song was Rihanna’s:
“It was Rih’s idea,” says the producer. “Not only do we work together, but [Rihanna] is a friend of mine. And it’s like, ‘You wanna do something? Then cool, let’s do it.’ I don’t know how she got the logistics and how it happened — maybe she’ll talk about it one day. I showed up at the studio, and it was like, ‘All right, cool, let’s finish this record,’ which we probably should have finished the first time we did it.”
He also hopes that people understand where Rihanna is coming from – a place of forgiveness:
“I think [the topic] that should be more on the tongues is: how do we proclaim to be a nation of forgiving, and we go by all of these rules and everything, but we can’t actually do it?” he says. “It actually makes you look weaker than your adversary — if you don’t have the power to forgive, but you lie and say that you did.”
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