Rihanna's Grammy Moment and Jay-Z's Control

I Know I promise you I'm gonna give you my first grammy

I have to fight for this one.

She said want to thank everybody for her first grammy

Anyway, I'd like to

thank Jay z for being a part of this record with me.

She liked to thank Jigga man for being the greatest in the world

Okay Tricky the video you just watched shows Rihanna when she win her

first Grammy But Jay z did something

terrible that changed everything you can see it happened several times.

He cuts off her microphone He speaks for he turns the moment into

something about himself by

joking in front of millions of viewers at the time Everyone thought it was funny,

but knowing what we know today It doesn't seem funny anymore because Rihanna

was barely 20 years old that night It was her very first major

moment and Jay z who had already signed her to his own label grabs the microphone

and speaks for her on one of the biggest stages in the world that kind of behavior

already shows who was in control between the two of them and to Understand how real

that control was you have to go back to her audition Rihanna herself once

talked about it like it was a joke She said Jay z told her there were only two ways

to leave that room through the door with a signed contract or through the

window It's worth remembering that they were on the 29th floor the day she signed

Really good audition.

What did he say to you? He said something to you.

Oh, yes, he said we don't sing songs here We

sing artists there to us to leave here.

I look through the door with the deal sign or through this

window I'm going to 29th floor.

She laughs while telling the story but look at her face at that exact moment

She's clearly uncomfortable and saying something like that to an unknown teenage

girl from Barbados Isn't

an ordinary joke in the business world people don't realize it when they look at

the Rihanna We know today who has achieved everything but from the very

beginning there was always someone speaking for her and today we know who that was