“Riri” is the second single from Aminé’s third studio album Limbo.
This track was first teased by Aminé in a snippet sent to fans through his Community messaging service on May 27, 2020, teasing its imminent release.
[Intro]
(Pasqué, heat it up)
Ooh, ooh, so in love
Ooh, so in love (Yeah)
Ooh, so in love (Yeah, yeah, uh)
[Verse 1]
You love Rihanna, but you ain't a savage (Nah, nah)
Don’t act like you perfect, you know that we both got some baggage (Yeah, yeah)
I was callin' your mama and you was callin' my accountants (Damn, damn)
You gave me headaches and I gave you too many chances (Yeah, yeah)
Look, tell me how the hell you got to Paris and Phuket (Uh)
Shawty too fine, but I bet she the bullet in roulette (Yeah)
I’m lookin' so clean, lookin' like Three Stacks in Gillette (Yeah)
She five for five online, she want a jet
Need some rent, bona fide
[Chorus]
Broke my heart three times (Ooh)
Shawty hit a nigga with the peace sign (Ayy, ooh)
Wasn't with me since I had the Nissan (Ayy, ooh)
Blinded by your beauty, missin' these signs (Ayy, ooh)
Wish I had three eyes
Broke my heart three times (Ooh)
Shawty hit a nigga with the peace sign (Ayy, ooh)
Wasn't with me since I had the Nissan (Ayy, ooh)
One was okay (Okay, ayy), two wasn't cool (Yeah)
But that three was no way (Ooh)
[Break: Joyce Wrice]
Nobody said things would get easier (Easier, easier)
You gotta believe me
Nobody said things would get easier (Easier, easier)
You gotta believe me
[Verse 2]
I thought you loved me but shoutout Emani (Yeah, yeah)
You had you a baby, and now lil' mama’s a mommy (Yeah, uh, uh)
Shoutout to Lola, that coochie as wet as Dasani (Yeah, yeah, yeah)
Pussy so good, it should cost a Ferrari
And make me feel like I’m on molly (True)
Jesus, you need this, you was Kelly, I was Regis
Let's be honest, I been fuckin’ with you since my Air Forces had the creases (Woo)
Flaunt like a don, Yoko Ono, solo, strong
Stuck in limbo for how long? Please tell me where I belong
[Chorus]
Broke my heart three times (Ooh)
Shawty hit a nigga with the peace sign (Ayy, ooh)
Wasn't with me since I had the Nissan (Ayy, ooh)
Blinded by your beauty, missin' these signs (Ayy, ooh)
Wish I had three eyes
Broke my heart three times (Ooh)
Shawty hit a nigga with the peace sign (Ayy, ooh)
Wasn't with me since I had the Nissan (Ayy, ooh, yeah)
One was okay (Okay, ayy), two wasn’t cool (Yeah)
But that three was no way (Ooh)
[Outro: Aminé & Jak Knight]
Num-num-num, num-num-num
Num-num-num, nah
Num-num-num, num-num-num
Num-num-num, num, nah
Num-num-num, num-num-num
Num-num-num, nah
Num-num-num, num-num-num
Num-num-num, num, nah
I know niggas, so, like (I know niggas)
I don't play none of that shit
You know why we know niggas?
'Cause we were niggas (Were those niggas)
Riri was produced by Pasqué.
In a press release speaking on the release of the track’s music video made on the day of its release, Aminé said:
We shot this video before the murder of George Floyd & my knowledge of the Breonna Taylor case […] but I felt compelled to delay its release for obvious reasons. Activism is essenti...
When my engineer, Morning, presses record, I start to feel the beat a lot. What you hear in the beginning of “Riri” wasn’t like purposeful. That was just natural. It was just like what I was singing right before I was about to say the first line. The biggest challenge for “Riri” was the second verse...
We were in this editing room for like, five days straight, trying to make “Riri” and edit “Riri” together. And we had that scene, and I was supposed to be rapping towards the camera, and that was the scene. But we just made that decision off the cuff. So I was like, ‘it’d be really cool to see mysel...