Rihanna is back with her first new
music in three years, although fans hoping for a single off the long-awaited R9 are going to be pretty let down.Late Thursday, Canadian rapper PARTYNEXTDOOR dropped his new track, "BELIEVE IT," which features Rihanna on backing vocals. While the collaboration makes sense — PARTYNEXTDOOR co-wrote "Work" and "Sex With Me," which are on Rihanna's 2016 album Anti — fans were upset to not have gotten a little more from the 32-year-old Barbadian singer, whose last releases were in 2017."[H]er army of devoted followers are disappointed RiRi only sings the track's five-word chorus and backup," noted the
New York Post. Listen to the full song, which NPR calls "a mid-tempo jam with a straightforward pop structure," below.