Machine Gun Riri is wearing more tattoos than clothing in her new spread for GQ’s Men Of The Year issue which hits news stands this month. In the new cover story, Ri chops it up with GQ writer Jay Bulger (who spent time with the singer while she was parading around NYC with Chris Brown) about two of her favorite subjects: music and sex. In the interview, she says that while some people just see her as dollar signs, she’s not into making corny music that’s not real and she admits that her highly sexual personality comes from her culture.
Also, if you want to turn her on, you better know how to take control:
On People Seeing Her As Only A Product
Sometimes a person looks at me and sees dollars. They see numbers and they see a product. I look at me and see art. If I didn’t like what I was doing, then I would say I was committing slavery.
I want to make music that’s hopeful, uplifting. Nothing corny or super-sentimental. I just want it to have the feeling that brings you out of whatever you’re going through. I want it to spark that fire. I want it to be real, authentic, and raw.
On Being Highly Sexual
That comes from my culture. That’s just the way it’s always been, and I think that for people, especially in America, they make it like the forbidden fruit, but that only makes kids more curious….I was a lot more naive about the way I moved and the way I was being perceived. The more you hear people talk about ‘Oh, you’re a sex symbol,’ it just makes you think, ‘Why are you saying that?’ And I figured it out.
On Her Turn Ons
I like to feel like a woman. I have to be in control in every other aspect of my life, so I feel like in a relationship, like I wanted to be able to take a step back and have somebody else take the lead.
On if she believes the Drake & Chris’ Bottle Fight Was Because of Her
There’s no proof of that being for my love. That’s my answer to that question.
My honest opinion about Rihanna "baring all" is this. I am embarrassed and ashamed of her as a fellow black female. She has made a bad habit of having these salacious and extremely overly sexualized photos taken to represent her image and brand. I feel like I've seen literally "all" of her and I shouldn't have. The music that popularizes her has been chosen for it's raunchy, gritty, lustful content and it's turning me off because as a human being as well as a young black woman she has more to offer than what she can do sexually to a man (or a woman). I'm quite disappointed in her representation as well as her using her "culture" as the reason for her choices in going commando in photo shoots. Even though in Barbados the cultural identity is partially rooted in "openly" expressive carnal desires it's still a conscience choice to either show herself off as slutty and whorish or tastefully sexy. She doesn't need to go so far to give off the appeal of "sexy". I get it that she wants "to spark that fire, wants it to be real, authentic, and raw" but it's conveying the wrong message". Not as positive as she would like it to be. I'm just wondering where is her mother and women figures in her life to guide her as a young woman in the public eye. That's their role to give input when no one else will. I hope it's not the case where they don't see anything wrong. ART is one thing and exploitation is another. There's a difference between emphasizing sexual suggestions in your videos with grinding, winking, posing, and etc. and showing form with your body to create Art. In Umbrella she showed that when she was painted in silver coating. She used her body as art in that video before it went too far. The GQ cover she is featured on looks pornographic. It won't be long before Playboy offers her a spread in their magazine. And it will happen if they haven't contacted her already. It's a matter of time. Even though she is of age she has the mind of a young girl still, but looks like a grown ass woman, doing grown ass woman things.
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