Rihanna has uploaded on Instagram a teaser for her upcoming eighth album.
The singer shared the Instagram video on Twitter on Tuesday. She captioned it, "phuckin roun in da studio."
Here is the video she uploaded:
The post has already earned over 120,000 likes as of press time.
In the video, we heard her sing, "Ain't none of this shit promised, ain't none of this promised. Ain't none of this shit promised. Ain't none of this shit certain, ain't none of this certain."
To date, no details about the album have been announced. Also, there is still no definite date for its release. This has then spurred rumors and speculations about it.
According to Music Times, it is believed that the new album is set to be released on Black Friday, November 28.
It cited the tweets of Rihanna's brother Rajad Fenty. Over the past days, he has been posting some sort of countdown on Twitter.
His first tweet was "8" which is dated November 20. This was followed by another tweet that same day which said, "Oh no...what did I type?" And was followed by tweets which said "7" the next day and "6" the following day. This was again followed by another tweet on November 23 which said "5."
After five, he posted another tweet saying, "I see my tweets aren't appreciated I'll stop tweeting till some sort of announcement."
But he seemed to can't get enough and posted another tweet on November 24 which said, "4?"
He also has a pinned tweet on his account which said, "You guys gonna love #R8" dated August 13.
Meanwhile, Rihanna posted on Twitter that news about her new album must directly come from her. "ANY news about #R8 will be delivered directly from me!!!!" she said in her post.
Rap Up citing Entertainment Tonight reported that the project called "R8" will arrive "very soon."
Earlier, it was speculated that Rihanna's new album will be called "Lost Files." A "blurry" image showing the name of the alleged new album and the list of the tracks that would be included in the album have been uploaded by website Envy the DJ.
The leaked photo showed that the upcoming album will be named "Lost Files." But it was showed in the leaked photo that the album is still "subject to revision." It was showed in the photo that the new album would be under record label Def Jam Recordings, SRP Music Group, and Roc Nation Recordings.It also noted that the new album will be unveiled through a press release to be issued on November 4 this year but the official release date will be on the 25th of November.
The track list will be composed of 14 songs, as shown in the leaked photo. The titles of the songs are "Bold," "Trouble," "Ain't No Drama," "Barz," "A Drug and A Dream," "All Night," "Lovin, Fallin, Dyin," "Tattered Heart," "Real Talk," "Hall of Flames," "Pray 4 Life," "Oceans," "Veins," and "Lost Files."
It was also revealed in the photo that Rihanna some of the songs will be in collaboration with rappers Nicki Minaj, Drake, and Eminem.