Rihanna's Umbrella wrath

23 May 2008 04:21pm

Rihanna has reportedly revealed she had furious showdown with the co-writer of her hit Umbrella when she learned she was the last to be offered the song.

Terius Nash wrote the song with Christopher Stewart and then tried to sell it to Mary J Blige and Britney Spears before offering it to Rihanna.

Rihanna told the Guardian: "No one wants to be teased.

"How can you bring a record to me when you took it to a million people at the same time? I thought Mary J Blige was going to get it for sure. But at the back of my mind I was thinking, No wait, I'm never giving this up. I went up to the guy [Nash] at the Grammys and I was like, 'Umbrella is mine.' And he just kind of giggled. And I really held his face, like, 'No you're not hearing me, Umbrella is my record.'"

The 20-year-old Bajan star went on to make the song a No 1 hit in 17 countries.

She said: "I never knew that this song was going to be so big. And I still can't really fathom how big it blew up to become, in places all over this world that I've never heard of. I couldn't really get a hold of that. To this day it never gets old. It's a magical song to me."

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