{"id":805748,"date":"2020-03-27T07:36:07","date_gmt":"2020-03-27T13:36:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=972815"},"modified":"2020-03-27T07:36:07","modified_gmt":"2020-03-27T13:36:07","slug":"how-rihanna-ended-up-on-partynextdoors-believe-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/music-news\/how-rihanna-ended-up-on-partynextdoors-believe-it\/","title":{"rendered":"How Rihanna Ended Up on PartyNextDoor\u2019s \u2018Believe It\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/RiPND.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p><span>Last November, the producer Ninetyfour was eagerly expecting his first major-label placement. \u201cI was supposed to be on the Game\u2019s album,\u201d Ninetyfour recalls. \u201cThey asked us to do the paperwork, ASCAP information, bet, we\u2019re gonna be on the album, it comes down to it \u2014 it\u2019s not on there. That was supposed to be my first one, so I was kind of devastated. My spirits was low.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>He rebounded in emphatic fashion on Thursday night when the R&amp;B singer <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/partynextdoor\/\" id=\"auto-tag_partynextdoor\" data-tag=\"partynextdoor\">PartyNextDoor<\/a> put out his new album, <\/span><i><span>Partymobile<\/span><\/i><span>: Along with Bizness Boi and Cardiak, Ninetyfour co-produced \u201cBelieve It,\u201d a punchy ballad featuring the first new <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/rihanna\/\" id=\"auto-tag_rihanna\" data-tag=\"rihanna\">Rihanna<\/a> vocals to be released since 2017. It\u2019s expected to be the next PartyNextDoor single, and Rihanna\u2019s presence on the hook practically assures that it will be a commercially auspicious debut for Ninetyfour.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" type=\"text\/html\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/gejbbL1AaJk?version=3&amp;enablejsapi=1&amp;origin=https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com&amp;rel=1&amp;fs=1&amp;autohide=2&amp;showsearch=0&amp;showinfo=1&amp;iv_load_policy=1&amp;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\">[embedded content]<\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Like many contemporary productions, the instrumental for \u201cBelieve It\u201d lived an exciting life before settling down on <\/span><i><span>Partymobile<\/span><\/i><span>. The song was started by Cardiak (Drake\u2019s \u201cWith You,\u201d Tank\u2019s \u201cWhen We\u201d), who created the intertwining guitar and pitched-up vocal sample that makes up the spine of the track. He then sent it to Bizness Boi, who was in Paris at the time for a writing camp.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cIt was a writing camp with American producers and French producers,\u201d Bizness Boi recalls. \u201cWe went over to work on some of their big artists. I pulled [Cardiak\u2019s beat] and started working on it for an artist there, I forget his name. He was messing with it for a while, but in the end he wanted to go in a different direction.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"pmc-contextual-player\">\n<h3> Popular on Rolling Stone <\/h3>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p> <!-- .l-article-content__pull--left --> <\/p>\n<p><span>Undeterred, Bizness Boi sent the \u201cBelieve It\u201d demo to Ninetyfour. He had known the producer since 2013 \u2014 Bizness Boi prides himself on keeping an ear out for young talent, and both men are from Milwaukee. He signed Ninetyfour roughly a year ago. \u201cI wanted to help someone from my city that was dope on the production side,\u201d Bizness Boi says. \u201cI like his drums, his sample choices, how quickly he works. I send him ideas; he sends them right back.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Sure enough, Ninetyfour fleshed out the \u201cBelieve It\u201d skeleton quickly, turning it into a song just waiting for a singer. Another friend recommended that Bizness Boi send it to PartyNextDoor \u2014 the two have had a steady working relationship since collaborating on four songs from the 2016 album <\/span><i><span>P3<\/span><\/i><span>. \u201cThe next thing I know [\u2018Believe It\u2019] is on [PartyNextDoor\u2019s] Snapchat,\u201d Bizness Boi says.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"instagram-media\" data-instgrm-captioned data-instgrm-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/B2zcAZdB9t4\/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading\" data-instgrm-version=\"12\" readability=\"-8.0516129032258\"><\/blockquote>\n<p><span>Getting Rihanna involved was the final piece of the puzzle. PartyNextDoor has a lucrative sideline writing and producing for other artists; he co-wrote Rihanna\u2019s Number One hit \u201cWork,\u201d the double-platinum \u201cSex With Me,\u201d and the quintuple-platinum \u201cWild Thoughts.\u201d Although her last feature appearance was on N.E.R.D.\u2019s 2017 track \u201cLemon,\u201d PartyNextDoor was able to coax her into harmonizing with him on \u201cBelieve It.\u201d Placeholder vocals were originally cut by PartyNextDoor\u2019s girlfriend, according to Bizness Boi, and Rihanna didn\u2019t send over her contribution until Monday.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Instead of asking PartyNextDoor to send a preview of the completed song, Bizness Boi and Ninetyfour waited for \u201cBelieve It\u201d to arrive on streaming services at midnight like everybody else. \u201cIt\u2019s like Christmas,\u201d Ninetyfour says. \u201cYou\u2019re a young kid waiting for that present, you wake up, and it\u2019s just there.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/partynextdoor-rihanna-believe-it-making-of-972815\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last November, the producer Ninetyfour was eagerly expecting his first major-label placement. \u201cI was supposed to be on the Game\u2019s album,\u201d Ninetyfour recalls. \u201cThey asked us to do the paperwork, ASCAP information, bet, we\u2019re gonna be on the album, it comes down to it \u2014 it\u2019s not on there. That was supposed to be my [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[98],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-805748","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-18 04:09:11","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSMT The Mountain","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/805748","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=805748"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/805748\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=805748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=805748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=805748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}