We’re still waiting on the arrival ‘s R9, While RihRih’s been building the  in the past few years, we’ve yet to hear much music from her. We do, however, know a few things about the project including the direction she’s taken with the album. She’s tapping into a more dancehall/reggae sound for this album and enlisting some heavy hitters in the scene to help bring it to life.

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One the people that was reportedly reached out to was . In a recent interview, the international reggae star revealed that Rihanna’s peeps had reached out to him for a collab on R9 but he ended up declining. His reason? He didn’t feel the need to audition for it.

“They approached me for the Rihanna project, yeah. There’s a lot great people involved, but for me, I didn’t need to audition to be on the record. I’ll leave that to younger guys,” he said. “But from what I hear, it should be good.”

She previously shared details in a cover with Vogue, explaining that the direction reggae just feels right. “It’s in my blood. It doesn’t matter how far or long removed I am from that culture, or my environment that I grew up in; it never leaves. It’s always the same high. Even though I’ve explored other genres music, it was time to go back to something that I haven’t really homed in on completely for a body work,” she said.