Rihanna Blew Up Pre-Grammys

According to a TMZ exclusive, meaning somebody got paid, Rihanna last minute canceled her Grammy performance after storming off the stage in a pre-show rehearsal. According to her reps but not the one who took the TMZ money, Rihanna was suffering from acute bronchitis. That fast kind that comes on like an unexpected thunder shower or cocaine nose bleed. The Grammys were left in the lurch as they were shooting for a ninety-percent black face time diversity goal and her departure set them back a couple Sharpton points. There was the option to go with a silhouetted figure announced as Rihanna and just play the pre-recorded track she sings to regardless. Nobody wanted to take the chance of Chris Brown storming the stage and beating up the stand-in. That’d be too much black.

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