Inside Rihanna’s Upcoming Dancehall Album

Jamaican producers and songwriters have submitted “500 records” for new album that’s been more than a year in the making

By: ELIAS LEIGHT

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For more than a year, Rihanna and her label Roc Nation have been hunting for beats as they work to complete an album devoted to exploring the singer’s Caribbean roots, according to conversations with eight sources close to the project. In addition, two of those sources suggest that the singer is simultaneously at work on another pop-oriented album.