Rihanna Calls Collaboration With Chris Brown ‘Innocent!’

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We were all shocked when Rihanna debuted her remix for ‘Birthday Cake’ with Chris Brown…some people were cool with the collaboration while other were not, but Rihanna calls it ‘innocent.’

Rihanna recalls beginning the collaboration process saying: “The first song that came about was ‘Birthday Cake.’ I mean we ended up recording them at the same time and executing them together, but I reached out to him about doing ‘Birthday Cake’ because that’s the only person that really–it made sense to do the record. Just as a musician despite everything else that was going to be the person. You know I thought about rappers, and I’ve done that so many times, and the hottest R&B artist out right now is Chris Brown. So I wanted him on the track, and then in turn he was like ‘Why don’t you do the remix to my track?’ and it was a trade off. We did two records. One for my fans. One for his fans, and that way our fans can come together. There shouldn’t be a divide. You know? It’s music, and it’s innocent.”

Rihanna will save touring for next year, this year is all about movie roles, videos and making music for her. Rihanna also plans to start her own fashion line after doing a small collection with Armani,

After that I’m really pursuing a fashion line of my own. I want to design. This is also a road that I want to earn it. So I’m working with designers. Designers that I respect, and [fashion] companies that I respect. I want people to really trust me before I just say ‘Buy it, because it’s mine.’”

And what about her film debut in ‘Battleship,’

“It’s a huge film. It was an exciting experience for my first time, and working with Peter Berg. I could not have handpicked, if it was my choice, a better director to work with on my first film. His energy just filters through all the way to the set, through the crew, the cast, and he really helped me. You can only imagine how nervous I was going in to such a big budgeted film really as an amateur. Clean. Really not knowing anything, but it was immense. It was an impeccable experience.”

Via Ryan Seacrest