Rap-Up.com || Rihanna Working with Producer Alex Da Kid on New Album

Creating a record to top the success of Rihanna’s “Rude Boy” is a challenge Alex Da Kid is willing to take on. The 26-year-old producer has been crafting beats for the Bajan singer’s’ forthcoming album.

Rihanna may be in the early stages of recording her fifth opus, but she’s already calling on Alex to craft records to her liking. In the past, the London native made beats specifically thinking about the pop star’s tastes. “When I first started working with [Rihanna], I was doing that,” reveals Alex, who produced “Love the Way You Lie,” her collaboration with Eminem.

As time progressed, the “Airplanes” producer took a more organic approach. “I don’t try to directly mold [a record] to her ’cause you never really know what she’s thinking,” he tells Rap-Up.com. “She wants input from other people . She doesn’t always want to come up with the ideas. She wants talented people to help come up with ideas. I just do what feels natural.”

Alex has teamed up with Rihanna on several records, none of which he can name nor describe yet. “We’ve done a couple,” he admits. “We’ve got a few good ones that will probably end up on the album.”

When brainstorming ideas to make a beat, Alex’s approach is rather simple. “[Artists] never want to do something like their last album; they want to do something fresh and new,” he states. “I just do whatever I feel like is a hot song.”

–Georgette Cline

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13 Comments

xedos
June 18th, 2010 at 8:50 am
My advice you. everyone is going to want a beat from you now that rihanna & M&M got a hit from you. you have to lean to say no or else you become stale like the sticky and the dream or timberlan.
Don’t give every idiot a track even if they have the best voice, because they may be able to sing but not able to sell the song.
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Trey
June 18th, 2010 at 10:22 am
I can already tell I’m going to become annoyed with this guy like other producers who just talk talk talk talk about all their projects. Stick behind-the-scenes and don’t become all over the place like recent hitmakers have (ex. Sean Garrett and The-Dream)
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jk
June 18th, 2010 at 10:52 am
THANK YOU TREY! i agree witu 100%!!!
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queen
June 18th, 2010 at 11:19 am
i agree with xedos… he better be real wise with who he chooses or else he’ll end with wack tracks:
Tricky & Dream: FROM “Single ladies” and “Umbrella” to “obsessed” and “ride”
yuh see my point
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Trey
June 18th, 2010 at 11:56 am
Well I think Tricky and The-Dream were hot with “Umbrella”, then “Single Ladies” and “Just Fine” and several other songs like “Baby” but then the sloppy and crazy stuff like “Loubitons” and all the stuff from Mariah and Xtina’s new album.
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June 18th, 2010 at 12:53 pm
he should work with creative people and people that fit his vision, not just sell out to what’s hot in the streets. that’s what wrong with hip hop/r&b these days — too reliant on trends and “names” instead of quality music.
mariah’s album was fantastic, so quit judging music by sales. it shits all over anything rihanna, beyonce, ciara, or anybody else this website goes crazy over will do in their careers.
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Danni
June 18th, 2010 at 1:04 pm
^^ LOL !!! you have extremely poor taste in music. mariah’s album flopped and was panned by critics.
and who the hell are you to tell him who he should and shouldn’t work with?
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GangsterA
June 18th, 2010 at 1:08 pm
Wow i love his beats i cant wait to hear a riri dance and happy positve album
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Lupito
June 18th, 2010 at 1:43 pm
We’ve got a few good ones that will probably end up on the album.”
That doesn’t sound like the next Thriller to me.
To me that sounds like “we’ve done a few ok tracks that will probably be added as fillers”.
Still i’d rather someone be realistic then tell me the songs they’ve worked on will make jesus rise from the dead (Sean Garrett).
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Trey
June 18th, 2010 at 4:43 pm
@….
It was alright, but it seemed very repetitive.
And Memoirs was definitely Mariah at her best anyway.
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trey-k
June 18th, 2010 at 7:33 pm
Sooo bored of Rihanna, her voice, her image,her name. sick of her being rammed down everybody’s throat’s.
Her concert sell’s speak for themselve’s,dismal!!
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WhatTheF
June 18th, 2010 at 8:38 pm
@Lupito That’s because you’re retarded.
He means they only did a few tracks and they are good, but he isn’t sure if they will end up on the album because it obviously isn’t his choice! #Dumbass
#STAYMAD
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Annie
June 19th, 2010 at 12:13 am
I’m definitely up for something new from Rihanna. Rated R has just gotten old lately. She’s tried to sell too many tracks as singles.
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