Rihanna and Drake's love story is nothing less than a roller coaster ride; dating timeline

Rihanna and Drake's love story has been thing less than a roller coaster ride. Rihanna was already popular before rapper entered music industry. duo has collaborated toger for many hit singles.

ir interaction with each or had every fan convinced that duo is an item. However, after being friends for 10 years and sharing spectacular music with world, duo fell apart. Here is everything about Rihanna and Drake’s complicated love story.

2005: Rihanna and Drake’s first meet

At 2016 MTV Video Music Awards Drake revealed that he met first met Rihanna in 2005. Rihanna was shooting her Pon De Replay video in a restaurant. Drake played background music as people enjoyed eating dinner. rapper was 19 at that time while Rihanna was 17.

2009: Rihanna and Drake’s first date

Rihanna and Drake reportedly went on ir first date in May 2009 after her break up with Chris Brown. Rihanna and Chris Brown went public with ir relationship in 2008 however in February 2009 Rihanna broke up with Brown as he physically assaulted her. Rihanna and Drake were reportedly spotted partying at Lucky Strike in New York. After that, re were rumours that duo has begun dating. However, Rihanna dismissed m by saying that y were just friends.

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2010: Drake mentions Rihanna in lyrics of his track

Drake dropped his Thank Me Later track Fireworks in which second verse was reportedly about his and Rihanna’s date night. rapper was unhappy with how things were working out between duo. rapper in an interview said that he felt like a pawn.

However, in ar interview, Drake mentioned that he was bitter about how things worked out between m. Later, duo dropped a bomb in October 2010 with What’s My Name. On one hand when Drake was very open about his relationship with Rihanna while she wasn’t.

2011: Drake admits Fireworks was about Rihanna

As per reports, Drake confirmed that his Firework single was for Rihanna. He reportedly said at that time it hurt him a lot but Rihanna didn’t mean to and that rapper will never blame her for it. Drake revealed that he was hurt because he slowly began to realise what it was, however, he thought it was more. Later, duo released Take Care which talks about taking care of a woman who was mistreated by a man in past. Fans were pretty sure that song was inspired by Rihanna and Chris Brown’s relationship.

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2012 – 2013: Tension

As per reports, at 2012 VMA’s when Drake won Best Hip-Hop video of year, Rihanna did t clap for rapper. In 2013, Drake opened about his beef with Chris Brown and brought up Rihanna in his interviews again. rapper said that his rivalry with Brown began when woman who loved him fell in his lap. However, on or hand, Rihanna was yet quiet about her and Drake’s relationship.

2014 – 2015: Drake and Rihanna become good friends

In an interview, Drake revealed that he is good friends with Rihanna and she is also woman of his dreams. He reportedly said that y have a lot of fun toger but y are just friends. In May 2014, duo was seen holding hands in London. In 2015, Rihanna dropped a bomb again for fans when in an interview she said that her last relationship was with Chris Brown. re was mention of Drake at all.

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2016: duo dropped Work and y seemingly start dating

Everything between Drake and Rihanna was very quiet after Rihanna’s interview. However, in February 2016 duo dropped steamiest track Work. That wasn’t it, duo appeared giving many steamy performances live. Around this time re were reports, saying that duo is having a lot of fun toger and that music united m. speculations seemed more legit when in one of Drake’s live performance rapper gave a shoutout to Rihanna and said that he going to get his heartbroken.

After Rihanna won 2016 MTV Video Vanguard Award, Drake surprised her with a humongous billboard that read "Congratulations to Rihanna". Sometime later, Rihanna posted a picture of billboard captioning it as “When he extra”. In one of his speech he also said that he has been in love with Rihanna since he was 22 and that she is one of closest friends of her. However, in October 2016 duo reportedly broke up and started seeing or people.

2018: Rihanna said she isn’t friends with Drake anymore

In one of interviews when Rihanna was asked about her current dynamic with Drake, she said y aren’t friends anymore. However, she also mentioned that y aren’t enemies eir. Rihanna and Drake had also unfollowed each or on Instagram.

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