Eminem and Rihanna famously collaborated on the 2010 single “Love The Way You Lie,” which came from Slim Shady’s seventh studio album Recovery. The song became Em’s best-selling single with over 37 million copies sold worldwide and was nominated for five Grammy Awards.
If a recent Instagram post is any indication, the superstar duo is ready to do it again. On Saturday (July 25), Burn It Down Group, the company that reportedly tackles marketing for Shady Records, teased a potential collaboration between RiRi and Em on their Instagram Story.
The photo consists of a backwards “E” in the signature font used for Eminem’s name and the same “R” from the Barbadian singer’s Rated R album cover. The picture is coupled with two sets of eyeball emojis.
Whatever the case, the post has Em and Rihanna fans buzzing. After all, “Love The Way You Lie” was a monster hit. Written by singer-songwriter Skylar Grey, the track is essentially about abusive relationships.
In a recent interview with HipHopDX, Grey opened up about the song, explaining, “It was a very personal lyric based on my experience, not only with my ex-boyfriend, but the music industry. Feeling like there was something in me that loved to be tortured and loved the misery, because I kept getting sucked back into situations.
Skylar Grey Talks Being Dead Broke At The Time She Wrote Eminem's Biggest Song
“That’s what ‘Love The Way You Lie’ was about. Then a month later it was the No. 1 song. Eminem had cut it. Rihanna had cut it. I was broke living in a cabin in the woods and this was all happening and suddenly I had the biggest song in the world as a songwriter. Fucking crazy.”
As soon as Em heard the song, he recruited Rihanna to sing the hook and the rest is history.
The Racist haters ain’t gonna like this one lol
nobody is more racist than black ppl. gtfoh. nobody gives a shit about colour
All groups are racist . The new fad , however , is to only condemn racism by white folks .
Awww poor little guy. Your life must be so hard having to deal with so much anti-white racism.
My life is pretty good so far . Just point out a trend , that’s all. It’s interesting , however , that pointing it out results in an unnecessarily condescending defensive reaction towards me. Guess I’ve pushed your little red button.
Fck “white folks”
Eminem been in his bag last two years. Already killed the game and is now beating up the dead bodies with bars (like always) but this man is 100x better every song. How is that possible? He’s literally doing donuts in the rap cemetery at 47 when I thought he was doing it at 29.
Dude insulted Rihanna on so many tracks and she is still doing music with. lmfao
One track from relapse and one new leaked version of a 8 years old leaked song is so many? Both recordrd before the inital collobaration
He’s referenced Rihanna recently. Killshot opens with “Rihanna just hit me on a text / Last night I left hickeys on her neck.”
He probably asked her for premission before to used that line
“Girl, forget remorse, I’ma hit you broads With Chris’s force like you pissed him off” on Recovery the Album of the collab, he made fun of the incident.
I take it back than, werent aware of it, thanks
Trash
Wigga hop is dead…
Care to elaborate what you mean Kaz? Surely you wouldn’t be insinuating a certain skin colour couldn’t make music as that would be absolutely, 100% racist. You aren’t racist are you?
Sound to me like he’s a racist.
I’ve seen his Kaz prick here before and I’m almost certain his really is Lord Jamar.
Though a pop record “love the way you lie was an undeniable catchy hit
And there it goes. Eminem continues his pop antics. As you can see only hippy girly Kardashian Hannah Montana type of girls are excited about this. This is why I haven’t bought an Eminem album for more than a decade. He just can’t without these weird collabs with Ed sheer an Rihanna Skylar Grey pink etc. You know when em collabs with these pop artists the songs are always wack. The only dope one was Stan which was 20 years ago when he did himself instead of these boring radio songs.
Grow up kid, almost every mainstream rapper calloborates with pop artists.
Agreed but its bad a look when that artist (Marshall) spent the first half of his career making a point to express his hate for pop music….now hes making it. Sounds like your the kid…… or you would have known that…son 🙂
He had hate for people placing him in pop categories with the boy bands and Disney radio artists. He’s definitely a top MC in the eyes of most legends that actually started hip hop
He mainly had hate for manufactured pop artists…boy bands and the Britneys and Christinas. I don’t think he ever had a problem with people like Rhianna who are talented are wrote their own shit.
Rihanna writes her own shit? That is news to me!
She sure has ….do some research before commenting!
It clearly says Skylar Gray wrote love the way you lie. Good to know you read the article.
You’re missing out if you didn’t listen to “music to be murdered by”…. I’m not a big fan of his pop stuff either but his last two albums have been really good.
Alot of race comments . figures . at any rate bars alone ; can’t wait for a Mariah memoir preemptive Rihanna killshot brought to u by the goat
Jesus Christ who gives a flying fuck
1st learn to read THEN read the article. “37 million” people gave more than just flying fucks.
If people’s assholes get this tight for shit like this they should just drop a collab album and rake in the $$$
Em & RiRi colab album.
Maybe, just maybe it’s Eminem & Royce 5’9” instead of Rihanna
Eminem is cool a really great lyricist ..one of the best..but when you don’t really have anything to rap about anymore it becomes fluff to me. Yea he raps about politics etc etc but he’s not touching the core anymore. I like how a Jay Z has evolved ..his flow and content feels like he can put music out at any age. The way he captures a moment…it’s more of an impact. I think Eminem’s skill set is also what hurts him.. he overshadows the message with his lyrical exhibitions..he’s a great “rapper”
But Jay Z only released one album in the last 7-8 years. Kind of hard to compare. Jay Z flow hasn’t changed which is what you need to do to evolve and keep the listener interested unless you like the same flow over and over. That’s like listening to the same song on repeat. He does have some good lyrics though.
Em trying to get to jay level in music
Did Em have to audition for a spot on the album like shaggy? Asking for a friend.