Rihanna smokes the world’s most expensive blunt on “Diamonds” single cover

Rihanna rolls her blunts with diamonds instead of weed! Well, maybe not all the time, but that’s what she’s doing on the cool cover art for her new single “Diamonds”.

Along with the smokey single cover, ratchet RiRi also dropped an official press release detailing everything you need to know about her new music (don’t call it a “return” o a “comeback”, coz it sure as hell ain’t one).

Here’s the important part.

“Diamonds” will make its global premiere on Wednesday, September 26th with an 8:00am launch at radio stations worldwide. An hour later, at 9:00am EST, “Diamonds” will go up for sale at iTunes Music Stores worldwide. Just weeks ago, Live Nation announced the Rihanna Diamonds World Tour 2013.

“Diamonds” is the first single from Rihanna’s upcoming seventh studio album on Island Def Jam, details to be announced in the weeks and months ahead. “Diamonds” was produced by Norwegian hitmakers Stargate, whose track record of worldwide Top 10 hits with Rihanna stretches back to 2006′s “Unfaithful,” and includes “Don’t Stop the Music,” “Take A Bow,” “Rude Boy,” “Only Girl (In the World),” and “What’s My Name” (featuring Drake), and “Talk That Talk.”

Since when was “Talk That Talk” a top 10 hit anywhere? Oh, my bad: it was top 10 in South Korea and Israel. Forgive me.

According to a recent interview Rihanna gave, “Diamonds” is “laid back” and “hopeful”, and a “happy and hippie record.”

Sounds pretty flawless. Right? But will it be able to snatch the wig of “Die Young” and “Your Body”?

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  • aj

    no it won’t snatch any wigs at all.

  • 123

    yay rihanna! I can always count on her to deliver some sick music

  • http://twitter.com/erokawai1987 ~ ERO-KAWAI! ~

    You guys, better not come here trashing Rihanna to get a break, and how her songs is not gonna snatch wigs. Cuz y’all know you’ll be bitching about it, and molesting the replay button at the same time as always. That Rihanna reign…

  • http://www.facebook.com/akie.koizora Akie Bertekad Cemerlang

    it is becoming more like “oh Rihanna again, with some wig-snatching tune again. oh OK.”

  • Danny

    I wonder why the drug alussion does not surprise me…

  • reductivered

    420

  • http://twitter.com/erokawai1987 ~ ERO-KAWAI! ~

    The thing is everybody always complains about Rihanna never sitting down, but whenever she releases a new single all of those people go bananas over her tunes. I’d love for her to have a break…but seriously, as long as she delivers with the single’s I’m okay with it. We all know she is no album-artist, she’s all about them singles.

  • http://www.facebook.com/LeeTeckYing Landon Lee

    Love it!!! Just this cover is enough to guarantee the single’s gonna be superb.

  • D$

    ‘happy and hippie’… here we go, rihanna putting on another lame accent…

  • http://www.facebook.com/lalo.delkastillo Lalo del Kastillo

    Hate her more cuz she is releasing the same week than Kween Ke$ha!!!!
    how you dare silly bitch? anyways you are gonna end up as second best LOl!

  • Guest

    What Rihanna is saying with this single cover is that doesn’t need to bother with improving as an artist or really being an artist at all. She smokes weed and sings whatever they tell her to and makes a crap load of money(hence the diamonds).

  • Mergong

    Giving some A$AP Purple Swag REALNESS. Hope Rocky was on some of the track

  • joe

    Actually disagree she is an album artist too… Her albums goes platinum in the US and has already sold 30 mill albums WW. How many solo artist that came out during her era have sold 30 WW. Remember she is a WW artist not just a US artist.

  • http://twitter.com/erokawai1987 ~ ERO-KAWAI! ~

    By album artist…I referred to her as an artist who releases solid albums. TTT was pure filler with a banger here and there. So that’s why she’s a single-artist for me. The last LP I truly enjoyed from her was Rated R, probably her best album to date. It was consistent, and there was some passion behind it. This is gonna sound really bad, but we can thank Breezy for smashing her face from WOAWLL to WOAWLL, cuz we go a gem as Rated R. *hides*

  • http://www.twitter.com/themusicprophet The Music Prophet

    Oh i’m sure this will be an utterly classy piece of pop culture. NEXT.

  • leesigh3

    Would it be fair to say that Rihanna is about to smoke some crystal?

  • TFC

    the cover hints that rihanna is now a glam version of her old thugself.

  • http://www.facebook.com/lalo.delkastillo Lalo del Kastillo

    poor rihanna only 30 with 6 albums? britney has sold over 100 with 6 albums, so who is the loser?

  • http://www.facebook.com/lucaswoodstock Lucas Oliveira Dantas

    no matter how much i try to ignore this ho she manages to catch my eye! this artwork is flawless!

  • http://twitter.com/FauxKingLuke Luke

    Nothing is snatching “Your Body”‘s wig IDGAF, that song is flawless… Even if Rihanna’s song is flawless (it probably will be) she doesn’t have a voice to snatch anything from Xtina lol

    Cool single cover though, I do get the feeling Rihanna just does stuff so that her stans can tumblr it though lol

  • http://twitter.com/FauxKingLuke Luke

    Not really… did you listen to TTT???

  • http://twitter.com/FauxKingLuke Luke

    Rihanna has not sold 30m albums LMFAO… go sit with Gaga’s stans in the corner of inflated sales.

  • Guest

    At least Rihanna doesn’t need a mental breakdown to stay relevant and have people pitty her and still buy her albums…. Case point Britney does need that…

  • http://www.facebook.com/juan.v.caceres Juan Velazquez Caceres

    At least Rihanna doesn’t need a mental breakdown to stay relevant and have people pitty her to buy her albums…. Case point Britney does need that and Rihanna doesn’t…..

  • G4L

    Not comparable u dumbass. Record sales are strongly affected by the time they get/got released. Nobody sells as well as back in the late 90s, early 2000s.

  • Guest

    You can stay pressed that Rihanna’s only iconic and memorable moment was getting hit by Chris Brown. Not anything that involved her “talent”.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Jawon-Palacios/100001497130995 Jawon Palacios

    she better come out swinging! RC7!

  • http://www.facebook.com/akie.koizora Akie Bertekad Cemerlang

    and what did Chris Brown hitting her do to her career? and she kept throwing her pussy back to the woman-hitter for what? generating buzz?

  • http://www.facebook.com/akie.koizora Akie Bertekad Cemerlang

    Britney sold well before the mental breakdown.

  • GawJuss

    yes we do and the last time I checked, WFL is the biggest single of 2011. Mad?

  • http://twitter.com/FauxKingLuke Luke

    How many No1 albums does Britney have though? and Rihanna… OH… Britney’s first album (before her breakdown) outsold Rihanna’s career lmao

  • http://twitter.com/FauxKingLuke Luke

    one song doesn’t make an album sick…

  • GawJuss

    Is anyone talking about album here? He said “sick music”. You’d better improve your reading skill. For real!

  • looser

    you’re so pathetic, back then people wasn’t illegally downloading music as much as they do today

  • http://www.facebook.com/lalo.delkastillo Lalo del Kastillo

    shut up losers except @facebook-542767869:disqus obviously Rihanna needs another couple of chris brown hits to die and dissapear of the planet, we are fed up of that bitch!!! Britney at least has dignity not like riri who spoke again with that black criminal

  • iAmAwesome

    “Since when was “Talk That Talk” a top 10 hit anywhere? Oh, my bad: it was top 10 in South Korea and Israel. Forgive me.”

    I can’t ever catch a break with you! LMFAO!

  • iAmAwesome

    Adele who?

  • iAmAwesome

    Napster tho… came out literally the year Britney came out. The difference is people actually wanted to BUY her whole album.

  • iAmAwesome

    Chill with the racism there, buddy.

  • Rob

    Well seeing how Your Body has already dropped to #27 on Itunes and I don’t hear it on the radio in Los Angeles, I guarantee Diamonds will slay. Ri Ri’s first singles ALWAYS get major airplay and smash Itunes.

  • Rob

    LOL. Drag him GawJuss. Luke is a PigTina stan so you know how that goes. Hahaha.

  • Rob

    LOL. Diamonds will slays Your Body in the 1st hour of it’s release when it debuts at #1. Have you seen the chart position for Your Body today on Itunes today? It dropped hard. Rihanna does not have that problem with her first singles, people buy them, like a lot. Hahahaha.

  • http://www.facebook.com/thebLainekelley BLaine Kelley

    Napster may have came out the same year as britney but it’s usage wasn’t even a fraction as common place as illegal downloading is today/has been since post 2003.

    There is no way to compare the sales of britney’s peak to any artist that debuted after ’05 or so.
    if you want to compare, try comparing britney’s sales post “In the Zone” to Rihanna/whatever ‘current’ artist. that would be far closer to accurate.

  • jenn

    she got smashed in the face and people bought her music out of pity. I in no way condone violence at all for ANYONE but think about it, how long would she have stayed relevant if she wasn’t assaulted by a famous person??

  • Faithz

    Rihanna is one of the hardest working females in the Industry.

  • Faithz

    I love Rihanna’s Energy and her down to earth attitude about life and her career. She is often knocked for her get up and go attitude, but no matter what nobody can say that she is lazy, and affraid of work.

  • Faithz

    In this day and time in music when her or any artist can move 3 million
    in album sells world wide and then have a few bangers of some hit singles then you are doing just great. Of course it would be great to sell more but many artist can do good to move 3 million albums and then a few singles that sells equally as well. Whe you look at the fact that Rihanna is the biggest Digital seller in the Us ever , that is as big as
    it can get. No matter how some might say this or that Rihanna has proven that she have got staying power and many don’t like it but it is what it is. Billboard named her the #2 artist behind adele last year, and trust that was big because adele sold more then many has shown in over a decade in the last year, and good for her.

  • Faithz

    Hey Luke the RIAA tells a truth about Rihanna sells and if that don’t please you then there’s soundscan, global charts and then theres the fact that Rihanna sells is cou ted right along with the rest of them.