We’d all accepted it, right? That R9 would never see the light of day? At this point, Rihanna made it pretty easy to make peace with the fact that she’d probably never follow up her 2016 magnum opus Anti. Over the 12 months, almost all of our Rihanna-related posts have been retrospectives on her hits from a decade ago or about her having a baby. But this post is not about either of those things. Just days after paparazzi shots of the singer-entrepreneur in a shirt reading “I’m Retired” sent the internet into a tizzy, we have a glimmer of hope that R9 might actually happen.