Here's How Rihanna & Drake's Single "Work" Came to Be

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Rihanna and Drake’s dancehall-inflected hit single “Work” is almost definitely stuck in your head by now (if not right now), and Rih-Rih has blessed us with a short behind-the-scenes vignette in the wake of ANTI‘s release furor. The video documents the process behind the creation of the song and its earworm of a hook and it features some intimate footage of Ms. Fenty’s creative process, as well as America’s Most Marketable Celebrity flipping the camera off, for good measure. Classic Rihanna.

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