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Rated X, Rihanna's follow-up to 2007's multiplatinum Good Girl Gone Bad, features the controversial first single, "Russian Roulette. " The dark ballad was written and produced by Ne-Yo, and is Rihanna's first solo single since her altercation with then-boyfriend Chris Brown before the Grammys on February 8, 2009. According to Rolling Stone, Rhianna also recruited producers The-Dream & "Tricky" Stewart, Chase & Status, Stargate and Justin Timberlake for Rated R.