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When it comes to her latest projects, business success, and even new motherhood, the singer says, “It’s still me.”

Rihanna is officially back outside. Don’t just take our word for it, the singer says so herself. We spoke with the fashion, beauty, and music mogul ahead of Savage X Fenty Vol. 4, her annual fashion experience which will debut on Prime Video November 9th, and she told us although she took a little break from work after having her son with fellow entertainer A$Ap Rocky in May, “Now I’m back outside.”

Savage X Fenty Vol. 4 is the second major project from Rihanna since becoming a mom. The first was the release of her song Lift Me Up on the soundtrack of the upcoming Marvel sequel Black Panther: Wakanda Forever.

Rihanna admits the commitment to making music again while working on her new show and balancing motherhood makes for some exhausting days. “This is a tired that you have no control over. Your body will shut you down,” she says. “Just recently I pushed through three days in the studio in a row – slept in the studio to get a song done because there’s a project that is really important to me coming out and I believed in it and really wanted to be a part of it. So I got it done, girl. We back outside. I told you.”

Damson Idris, Sheryl Lee Ralph, Winston Duke, Taraji P. Henson, and Precious Lee are some of the stars that will be outside – or rather on stage – with Rihanna as they walk in her latest show. When it comes to her feelings about the fourth experience, she says, “It’s heavy right now. It’s overwhelming, it’s a bunch of excitement, it’s chaotic and I love shit like that.”

One thing she doesn’t love as much is the pressure that comes with success. Last year, Forbes officially declared the founder of Fenty Beauty a billionaire, which she says she hopes other young people are inspired by. But, she adds, “It’s also scary.”

“There’s this weird pedestal that somebody put you on and you’re like ‘Wait, whoa, I’m not one of those billionaires now. It’s still me. And I feel like I fight extra hard to keep my feet on the ground.”

Check out our full interview with Rihanna as she also discusses how working on Savage x Fenty Vol. 4 is helping her get in the creative space for next year’s Superbowl.
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00:00When you agree to something like the Super Bowl, it's kind of like everything else is possible.
00:06You start getting like, well, if I could do this, if I could commit to this, I could do this, I could do that, I could commit.
00:10Everything seems easy after that, right?
00:13So it's getting me back into the swing of things.
00:20I'm feeling good. I'm feeling, yeah, energized, excited.
00:24We're about to embark on a whole new volume four of the Savage X Fenty show.
00:31So like, it's heavy right now. It's overwhelming and I'm excited.
00:36It's a bunch of excitement. It's chaotic and I love shit like that, yeah.
00:43I took a little break and then I came back and took a little break and came back and now I'm back outside.
00:50Okay.
00:50Yeah.
00:50Now, most new moms say they just kind of get used to like being tired all the time.
00:56Like you just make time you didn't think you had.
00:57What's it been like for you?
00:58Yeah, it's a new type of tired.
01:00Like I used to get tired and just push through and I could like keep going.
01:05And this is a tire that you have no control over.
01:09You know, your body will shut you down.
01:11And just recently I pushed through like three days at the studio in a row, like slept in the studio to get a song done.
01:22Because there's a project that is really important to me coming out and I believed in it and I really wanted to be a part of it.
01:28So, I got it done, girl.
01:30We back outside.
01:31I told you.
01:32Well, I love a challenge, but I also I like things to happen authentically.
01:50So, I never want to do anything before I'm truly ready and unless it feels authentic to me, things that I'm passionate about, because I'm going to give my all to whatever I do.
02:05So, even if it's something I don't love, I'm going to give my all, but it might as well be something I care about and passionate about.
02:12Yeah, so beauty is, I've always loved it.
02:15It was a space that was natural for me.
02:17It's always been something that I enjoyed, even as a little girl.
02:20My mom has been a huge inspiration because she's been in the beauty industry as well herself.
02:26Yeah.
02:27I'm really Barbados' youngest, self-made, billionaire, okay.
02:35But America won't adopt me for a little bit.
02:38I'll take it.
02:38It makes me feel good that people are inspired by it and they're like, I could do that too.
02:43So, I remember feeling that same feeling when I saw young entertainers and I was like, well, I'm not too young to do this.
02:51I could do this.
02:52And it really made me super optimistic about all of the possibilities.
02:58But it's also, like, scary because, you know, like, there's this weird pedestal that somebody put you on and you're like, wait, wait, whoa, whoa.
03:06I'm not one of those billionaires now.
03:08Like, it's still me.
03:11You know, and I feel like I fight extra hard to keep my feet on the ground.
03:14I feel like I'm not one of those billionaires.
03:15I feel like I'm not one of those billionaires.
03:16I feel like I'm not one of those billionaires.
03:17I feel like I'm not one of those billionaires.
03:18I feel like I'm not one of those billionaires.
03:19I feel like I'm not one of those billionaires.
03:20I feel like I'm not one of those billionaires.
03:21I feel like I'm not one of those billionaires.
03:22I feel like I'm not one of those billionaires.
03:23I feel like I'm not one of those billionaires.
03:24I feel like I'm not one of those billionaires.
03:25I feel like I'm not one of those billionaires.
03:26I feel like I'm not one of those billionaires.
03:27I feel like I'm not one of those billionaires.
03:28I feel like I'm not one of those billionaires.
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