Rihanna savagely claps back at troll who demanded new album after insulting her on social media

LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA: Rihanna kicked off 2025 with a sharp comeback after a troll called her a rude name and demanded new music on Instagram.

The 36-year-old superstar, who hasn’t released a new album since 2016’s 'Anti', responded to the remark in her signature bold style.

Rihanna responds to troll's rude comment online

The exchange happened after Rihanna shared a New Year’s post celebrating 2025.

Her video featured her declaring, "Y’all, I didn’t drink all year! I didn’t drink all year," and adding in the caption, "New Year, New Me."

Fans flooded the post with praise and requests for a new album, but one Instagram user, Lorenzo Hirmez (@lorenzohirmez), took a different approach.

"We want an album forehead," he commented.

Rihanna quickly shut down the remark with a fiery reply. "Listen Lorenzo! You ain’t cute enough to be calling me by my black name you dizzy f**k!" she responded, calling out the user by name.

Rihanna on her delayed album release

While Rihanna hasn’t released album in nearly nine years. Her last album was 2016’s 'Anti' as per Billboard.

However, she did drop two songs, 'Lift Me Up' and 'Born Again', for the 'Black Panther: Wakanda Forever' soundtrack in 2022.

In April, Rihanna told Interview magazine she had "a lot of visual ideas" for her next project but not enough songs.

"Maybe the visual ideas are leading me to the songs that I need to make," Rihanna said at the time.

Two months later, she updated Entertainment Tonight about her progress, saying, "I’m starting over."

Rihanna continued, "I don’t want to neglect the songs that I have, so I actually want to go back and listen to stuff with new ears, with my new perspective and then see what applies and what I’m still in love with."

She added, "I have been working on the album for so long that I kinda put all that stuff aside, and now I’m prepared to go back in the studio. I’m gonna start — give me a second!"

Fans praise Rihanna's 'savage' reply to troll

Rihanna’s sharp clapback gained attention online, with fans celebrating her response.

"Rihanna cooked him," wrote one X user about the interaction. Another added, "Lol that was savage."

"Rihanna just turned Lorenzo’s forehead joke into his villain origin story. She’s undefeated!" one more commented.

"When you try to roast Rihanna, but she cooks YOU!" penned someone else.

Some even referenced Rihanna’s past comebacks, with one fan commenting, "Lorenzo should’ve known better ‘cause Rihanna don’t play when it comes to hate. If this was 2012 Rihanna… oh it would’ve been nastier, he’s lucky!"

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