Rihanna Gives CBS Sports the Middle Finger for Pulling Her Song

Last week, on the heels of the video being released that showed former Baltimore Ravens star Ray Rice knocking out his wife,ย CBS canceled a prerecorded segment featuring Rihanna that was set to run on the opening night ofย Thursday Night Football. Suggested Reading Trigger Warning…All of the Shocking Testimony From Diddy’s Federal Trial 15 AI Videos…

Last week, on the heels of the video being released that showed former Baltimore Ravens star Ray Rice knocking out his wife,ย CBS canceled a prerecorded segment featuring Rihanna that was set to run on the opening night ofย Thursday Night Football.

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โ€œRun This Town,โ€ a collaboration between Rihanna and Jay Z, was supposed to be TNFโ€™s new theme song, but instead the network aired Rice coverage. Although CBS didnโ€™t entirely blame the singerโ€™s involvement with domestic violence as the sole reason for pulling the plug on the song, it did acknowledge that it played a role in the decision.

On Tuesday morning Rihanna took to Twitter to express her disappointment with CBS after finding out that the network wants to use the song this week:

โ€œCBS you pulled my song last week, now you wanna slide it back in this Thursday? NO, [fโ€”k] you! Yโ€™all are sad for penalizing me for this,โ€ she wrote.

She ended her rant with one simple tweet:

https://twitter.com/rihanna/status/511844530375892992

According to a reporter at the New York Times, after Rihannaโ€™s rant, CBS decided to drop her song from this weekโ€™s Thursday Night Football game.

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