Rihanna and Eminem have a long running friendship that’s stood the test of time, despite his insensitive lyrics about Chris Brown in 2019 – and the R&B superstar is hoping to help her one-time song partner find love, since he’s back in the market following years of being single, a source exclusively tells In Touch.
“There was a time when Eminem and Rihanna weren’t on good terms, but he managed to get her to forgive him and they’re now past it all and really tight again,” the insider says.
The beef between the “We Found Love” singer, 36, and the Oscar-winning rapper, 52, began after an unreleased verse from Eminem was leaked in 2019. The lyrics, “Of course I side with Chris Brown / I’d beat a bitch down too,” referenced the Fenty icon’s then-boyfriend Brown’s physical abuse, for which he was sentenced to five years probation and six months community service after pleading guilty to felony assault in 2009.
Em apologized to Rihanna, with whom he collaborated on the song “Love the Way You Lie” back in 2010, telling Sirius XM’s Shade 45 host Gray Rizzy, “I said it and I was wrong for saying that, it was f–ing stupid,” in January 2021.
