Under The Crown (A K1ng Eljay Blogsite)

The way your interview coincided with the release of your new music is SHADY. Point blank.

Dear Rihanna,

I was at work yesterday in the middle of a hectic shift when I suddenly heard about you being on 20/20 to reveal your story. My first reaction was positive. I thought it was a good move to finally go ahead and get it all out in the open, especially since I figured you should’ve been done that in the first place.

But about two minutes later, it was almost as if something sank into place and I had a complete 180 degree change in my opinion. At first, I thought it was a good idea, but now because of your impeccable timing, I can’t help but state that I think there was no POSITIVE point for revealing everything now.

I feel that if you were to reveal everything, you should’ve done it earlier instead of waiting almost a year (or a long time, however long it was ago) to reveal your side of the story. When people were pressuring you about it, you should’ve got it out then. I understand needing time to heal, but it seemed like you were FINE about a month after it happened. Or two months. Or even three months. How long exactly did you need? I understand each person needs different amounts of time, but I wouldn’t be as unimpressed as I am now if it wasn’t for your TIMING.

Let me explain.

Ever since Michael Jackson’s death your ex-boyfriend Chris Brown has slowly been poking his head back into the music industry. Over the last three weeks, he is officially returned. He has three songs on the radio right now (“I Can Transform Ya”, “Crawl”, and “Drop it Low” with Ester Dean), and is in heavy rotation. It seems like everyone’s willing to give him a second chance, even though he made a TRAGIC mistake in hitting you. So he looks like he’s planning a new cd soon.

At the same time, suddenly I hear a few new songs from you. First, “Russian Roulette”. Then “Hard” with Young Jeezy. Then I see the album artwork for your new CD. Looks like you’re planning a new album soon as well.

And then I hear about your interview.

Hmmmmm…..

And just in case it wasn’t clear, this excerpt from The Associated Press should clear up what I figured out a day ago:

“Rihanna’s interview coincides with the debut of her new single, “Russian Roulette,” from her upcoming album, “Rated R.”

Yes, he made a mistake. He had no business laying hands on her. But that being said, he's still being judged from that. He already has a lot of haters to deal with. Time to move on...

I do not respect your timing on telling everything. If you wanted to keep it personal this long, you should’ve just kept it. It was to the point where most people were fine with not knowing what exactly happened and were ready to give him another chance, but no. To me, it seems like a publicity stunt to promote yourself with a new album coming soon, and it also seems like a backhanded way to make him lose his fans as well.

There was nothing good to come out of the way you did it. To me this is just like the Andre Agassi situation, when he wrote a book slamming the sport that he grew up playing and all but shocked everyone around him. There was NOTHING positive to come out of that except trying to make money (in my personal opinion because of the TIMIMG). You and Agassi have a lot in common.

I don’t know if it was “the company’s idea” or if it was your idea, but at the end of the day, it could’ve been handled differently, and because it wasn’t, I’m actually going to side with Chris Brown on this one.

You’re wrong for that, RiRi. Here’s to your career stunt.

Signed,

King Eljay