November 18th, 2015

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Rihanna is featured in Bang Bang’s new book My Life as Ink, where she discusses her tattoos and Bang Bang’s impact on her body art:

“I met Bang Bang because about ten years ago I used to hang out downtown, by the tattoo shop where he worked. I would usually just roam around the streets, but one night I went into the shop and started looking around at nipple rings, and asking all kinds of questions about tattoos.”

“Tupac was playing loud, and Bang Bang was just sitting there, looking at me – with this face on – thinking, this girl isn’t going to buy shit. I could tell! He was like, this girl would never get a piercing… she would never get a tattoo.”

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Rihanna is launching a new set of styles from her Creeper collection for Puma on November 20th. These will come in white/oatmeal and pink/oatmeal with green stripes.

But that is not all, finally the guys will be able to buy a pair, since the men’s size also release on Thursday!

The new styles will be available to buy on Puma.com at midnight Eastern Time. The stores Kithnyc.com and Madisonstyle.com will ship WW on November 20th.

Rihanna’s first creepers sold out in just a few hours, so if you want a pair, be there on time! In the meantime, check out more photos of the new styles in our gallery.

Famous tattoo artist Bang Bang showed a preview of the content of his new book, where Rihanna is featured. He has tattooed Rihanna multiple times, and made the art on her body iconic.

In time for his book release, Bang Bang shared a video of Rihanna and asked her a question:

I asked @badgalriri “of all the people you meet, how do you choose who to call a friend?” ….. Rih thank you so much for helping with this book, your support through the years has meant the world to me. You define style and the world follows. It’s a privilege to decorate your body, it’s an honor to be your friend? #ShesMySpiritAnimal 11.17.15

In the beginning of his career, Bang Bang was rejected dozens of times before a ‘dilapidated’ shop on Fourth Street and Sixth Avenue hired him. He soon moved on West Village prlor Whatever Tattoos – where he would meet the client who would change is life.

In 2005, a 17-year-old Rihanna strolled into the shop looking for a nipple ring. When she asked the store piercer, Joe Snake, for the best tattoo artist in the city, he told her Bang Bang was the man she was looking for, showing her a Freddy Krueger tattoo he had done on the store manager’s thigh.

Rihanna was impressed and and on the day of her consult with 19-year-old Bang Bang she explained that she wanted a tattoo a necklace made up of Sanskrit writings on the back of her legs.

A few days later she came back with a Paper magazine reporter in tow, and while she originally wanted the tattoo running down her leg, Bang Bang says ‘it did not look sexy’ when they put the stencil on it.

Instead, he convinced her to put it on her hip, which Rihanna is still grateful for. Ten years later, he and the singer, who is now 27, is still a client and a ‘forever friend’. She even wrote the foreword of Bang Bang’s book.

‘The thing I value most about Bang Bang is his honesty,’ Rihanna reveals.

‘He will never tattoo a bad idea—like EVER. That is the best thing about him—he has shut down so many of my crazy ideas.’

She goes on to say that when she was getting her now infamous gun tattoo, he was the one who talked her out of getting two of them on her collarbones.

Bang Bang credits Rihanna for leading him to the likes of Katy Perry of Cara Delevingne, explaining that much of his notoriety has been from word of mouth and later celebrity photos and shout-outs shared on social media.

For the first time Billboard reveals the most successful music. Billboard has placed Rihanna as #13 on their Greatest of All Time Hot 100 Artists list.

Even though Rihanna didn’t arrive on the Billboard Hot 100 until 2005, with the No. 2-peaking dancehall reggae-splashed “Pon Dec Replay,” Rihanna ranks prominently as the No. 13 artist of the chart’s 57-year history. Her 13 No. 1s — from 2006’s “SOS” to 2013’s “The Monster” (by Eminem featuring Rihanna) — place her in rarefied historical air: She’s tied with Michael Jackson for the third-best No. 1 singles total, behind only The Beatles (20) and Mariah Carey (18).

Key to the 27-year-old Barbadian’s success is her wide range, says Kid Kelly, SiriusXM vp music programming.

“She has surprised fans with the ability to reinvent herself authentically album to album, song to song.”

She also deftly moves among genres, from dance music (“We Found Love,” her 2011 smash with Calvin Harris, sits at No. 25 on the all-time Hot 100) and R&B/hip-hop (her Grammy-nominated 2010 No. 1 single “What’s My Name?” showcased Drake) to pop (2008’s “Take a Bow” and Altered the years inside the parentheses. “Disturbia”). Rihanna’s most recent Hot 100 top 10 even found her in coffeehouse-folk mode, as she hit No. 4 in February with the Kanye West and Paul McCartney collaboration “FourFiveSeconds.” Other acts with whom she has shared Hot 100 credit are also diverse: Bono, Jay Z, Maroon 5, Nicki Minaj and Slash.

With her eighth album on the way, her first since 2012’s Billboard 200 No. 1 Unapologetic, Rihanna is poised to climb even higher on the all-time artist list.

“She doesn’t make any style sound forced,” says WBBM-FM Chicago assistant program director/music director Erik Bradley. “Her versatility has helped her reach.”

Check out the full list and read the article.

– Billboard


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