The incident sheds light on questions about the rapper’s work ethic.
After a late-night meeting, Rihanna signed with Jay-Z’s label, Def Jam Recordings, in 2005.
The hip-hop mogul discussed their first meeting with Rihanna and how he signed her to his label in a 2005 MTV interview with host Sway.
“When she walked in the office, I was like (speechless). You know, she just had just something about her,” the Grammy-winning singer told MTV’s Sway at the time.
“We signed her that night. We didn’t let her leave the office. Three in the morning is when that contract got signed. So from the meeting around three, or four in the afternoon, we signed it by three in the morning that day. I was absolutely certain.”