I will keep it real and be honest. Originally I was not feeling Rihanna’s ANTI album. I skimmed throughout it and thought it was alright, but after attending the Rihanna ANTI concert in Brooklyn I had a change of heart. Many of the initial songs that Rihanna performed I was not familiar with and I realized they were the songs off the ANTI album. Of course this would be the case since the tour was called ANTI. After the concert I decided to re listened to some of the songs on the ANTI album and discovered there were some pretty good songs that I was feeling such as “Sex With Me” “Kiss It Better” and “Needed Me”. As you can see, I have a thing for the sexual songs. Pass all the judgment you want.
Rihanna released the music video for her song “Needed Me”
Okay so here’s my 5cents on the music video. I LOVE IT, because Rihanna is in her own lane and she’s doing something other female artists aren’t doing and that’s keeping it ALL THE WAY REAL. In this music video there is a scene Rihanna moves in slow motion with an intense stare while rocking a bob cut and wearing an African necklace. This look is a dead giveaway that she’s overcome with emotion and is seriously plotting something big. Throughout the music video she walks through a strip club holding a gun and you’re saying to yourself, what is the purpose of this, but then you remember that it’s Rihanna who is a 28 year old black woman from Saint Michaels Parrish, Barbados who literally DOES WHAT SHE WANTS and I’m so here for it. In the end she ends up shooting some man (I’m assuming the person she says NEEDED HER ” and the video ends.
Basically in Needed Me Rihanna sings about a man who wants more than SEX. Rihanna is not here for it and basically sings about how she’s a heart breaker and a SAVAGE.
Check it out Below.
Let me know what you thought about the video
You can also find the lyrics below
I was good on my own, that’s the way it was, that’s the way it was
You was good on the low for a faded fuck, on some faded love
Shit, what the fuck you complaining for?
Feeling jaded huh?
Used to trip off that shit I was kickin’ to you
Had some fun on the run though I give it to you
But baby, don’t get it twisted
You was just another nigga on the hit list
Tryna fix your inner issues with a bad bitch
Didn’t they tell you that I was a savage
Fuck your white horse and a carriage
Bet you never could imagine
Never told you you could have it
You needed me
Oooh, you needed me
To feel a little more, and give a little less
Know you hate to confess
But baby ooo, you needed me
You been rollin’ around, shit I’m rollin up
Light and roll it up
Break it down like a pound, shit was never us
Shit was never us
That’s the real on the real, are you serious?
How you feel, how you feel?
Used to trip off that shit I was kickin’ to ya
Had some fun on the run though, I give it to ya
But baby, don’t get it twisted
You was just another nigga on the hit list
Tryna fix your inner issues with a bad bitch
Didn’t they tell you that I was a savage
Fuck your white horse and a carriage
Bet you never could imagine
Never told you you could have it
You needed me
Oooh, you needed me
To feel a little more, and give a little less
Know you hate to confess
But baby ooo, you needed me
