Rihanna said in a new interview that her ninth studio album is coming and will show fans 'the worth in the wait.' The singer also said fans will have to keep waiting a bit longer, because she 'cannot put up with anything mediocre.

“I am actually feeling really good about this. I know I kept saying this over the years,” Rihanna tells Harper’s Bazaar, adding that she’s finally “cracked the code” for her next project. Music, which she describes as her “freedom,” is something the Barbadian artist has spent years refining to match her growth.

I’ve been in the studio the whole eight years,” Rihanna said in an interview with Harper’s Bazaar published on Feb. 22. In 2016, Rihanna released her last studio project,

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Rihanna has made a career of dropping hit after hit, but there's only one album of hers that she can listen to with absolutely "no shame." In a new cover story with Harper's Bazaar, Rihanna admitted that she has no qualms about listening to her 2016 Grammy-nominated album Anti "from top to bottom with no shame.