The life of Rihanna

Brut America

Singer, activist, Barbadian national hero, billionaire ... And soon to be mother. This is the story of Robyn Rihanna Fenty.

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00:00I feel like every woman has a savage inside of them.

00:03Whether they found it or not, it's there.

00:19Confidence can make anyone sexy.

00:21If you rock who you are and own that walking into a room,

00:24there's nothing cooler than that.

00:31Barbadians are proud people, you know?

00:34We are probably the proudest people I know.

00:38And no matter where I go in the world, I take that pride with me.

00:52I always said before, by 18, by the time I'm 18,

00:56I want to be a singer. If not, forget it.

01:27It was the longest 12 hours of my life.

01:29Like, I was just waiting downstairs and I was like,

01:31get the contract on here, I want to sign it, I want to sign it.

01:51Such a great album, has such a way for it.

01:53It has such a great album, has such a way for it.

01:55It has songs and tempos, like when we play the tempos,

01:58the ballads, the old school lovers rock reggae.

02:02It's a great album.

02:23Everything I knew switched, switched in a night.

02:48Everything I knew switched, switched in a night.

02:52It was hard for me to even pay attention to my mind

02:56and figuring things out because now it became a circus.

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03:16The first day in, I was already shooting a scene,

03:20saying lines that were never a part of the script,

03:23so I didn't have a chance to really even get past the nerves.

03:27It was just right in, and in that way, it was incredible.

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03:43If they're famous and I'm single,

03:47it's an automatic, automatic, like, they're on,

03:52they're dating, and I hate that.

03:55Like, I don't even want to date. Like, I'm single.

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04:10Nobody's exempt from disease and poverty

04:16and, you know, you just never know.

04:20But we will fight for you the same way.

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04:38I've always known about the void

04:43within the makeup industry for women of color.

04:46It's 2017.

04:47No woman should ever walk up to a makeup counter

04:50and not find their shade.

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05:03My mission is just to have women all over the world

05:06feel comfortable and sexy and have fun with lingerie.

05:09All the different body types, all the different women

05:11in different stages of their womanhood.

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05:35I want black women to look at every achievement

05:39that I've made as hope, as a place that they can see,

05:43a template where they can see themselves.

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05:49So when we're marching and protesting and posting,

05:54tell your friends to pull up.

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06:13We have used and abused our natural environment,

06:18and climate change needs to be at the forefront

06:20of our minds and our mission

06:23because we are not going to survive without this planet.

06:28The time for real, meaningful,

06:32revolutionary action is now.

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06:54When is your next album going to come out?

06:56Everyone wants to know.

06:59Pending.

07:00Hi, it's from the Navy.

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07:13I'm a black woman.

07:14I come from a black woman who came from a black woman.

07:17I'm going to give birth to a black woman.

07:19We're impeccable.

07:20We're special,

07:21and the world is going to have to deal with that.

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