For once it didnt really made hov fans rih fams

It def made me check for rih when I found out she was on roc nation and I was a huge Hov fan

Jay served more of an executive role for Rihanna.

He played a role in marketing her while he was President of Def Jam along with the other label people.

They helped Rihanna propel to stardom when she was getting written off as a one hit wonder and a Beyonce clone after her 1st album.

Yeah business wise i think he did pretty well as an artist i dont think his collabs carried enough weight

he was her illuminati handler

Run This Town was huge

I don't know if you could say she Needed him on the music tip in terms of collabs, but that wasn't really his role

He was already pretty much done trying to be the top guy and make stars in the way that a simple co-sign from a rapper could

on top of that, Rihanna had hits out the gate, so what more do you want him to do?

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everyone needs help sometimes. never be afraid to ask

he signed her

could someone else have done it?

maybe

but they didn't

Wasn’t Run This Town her first return from the CB incident? And Kanye’s first from the Swift incident?

I might be misremembering

Maybe she didn’t NEED him but there are plenty of artists with potential that fall onto label situations that simply don’t work for them. Jay def played a huge role.

one of the worst hov verses but 'umbrella' was so big so does it matter?

Hmm 🤔

no but he did what he needed tbh

Anyone who says otherwise don't realize that she would have been as big as Cassie.

She was making songs like "Shut up and Drive" earlier in her career.

Run This Town had already been out for a couple months, same night at 09 vmas that the swift incident happened was the night that Lil Mama hopped on stage when Jay & Alicia Keys did ESOM

When Kanye was interviewed on Jay Leno the day after the incident he also performed Run This Town with Jay & Rih later on on the same episode

There is an alternative reality where Jay-Z chose to focus on Tierra Marie instead, and Rihanna is the one on Love and Hip Hop

All of his verses on her songs suck ass

Wasn't he essentially her manager at one point?

he’s still her manager lol. Cole just bought out last year. they all his protégés. Ye just crashed at $6B for whatever reason

Not to get big but to reach that Anti pinnacle and her current business status yes

The roc probably laced the fenty

Rihanna never becomes cool 2007-2009 without Hov behind the scenes. That coolness is what makes her a real superstar and not just some cute girl with a couple hits who’s overlooked as Beyonce-lite

As much as the US needs to better comprehension rates