We Ride (Rihanna song)

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"We Ride"

Single by Rihanna
from the album A Girl Like Me
Released	September 2006 23 October 2006 (UK)
Format	Digital download Digital maxi single 12" maxi single
Recorded	Battery Studios, Las Vegas, NV
Genre	Pop-R&B
Length	3:56
Label	Def Jam Records
Writer(s)	Rihanna M. Riddick T. Hermansen M. Eriksen
Producer(s)	Stargate
Chart positions
#8 (New Zealand) #17 (U.K., Ireland) #24 (Poland) #106 (USA) #1 (U.S. Dance)
Rihanna singles chronology
"Unfaithful" (2006)	"We Ride" (2006)	"Break It Off" (featuring Sean Paul) (2006)

"We Ride" is an R&B song recorded by Rihanna for her second album A Girl Like Me (2006). The song was confirmed as the album's third single by MTV^[1] and was released in mid-2006.

In the U.S. "We Ride" failed to enter the Hot 100, but performed somewhat stronger elsewhere. It also did not enter the Canadian Singles Chart, but reached the UK Singles Chart top twenty and New Zealand Singles Chart top ten. Because of its relative underperformance, the single "Break It Off" (2006, featuring Sean Paul) began receiving airplay earlier than expected.

1 Song information
2 Music video
3 Trivia
4 Remixes
5 Charts
6 External links
7 References

[edit] Song information

"We Ride" is a Pop/R&B song which is about a woman's past painful relationship. She sings about how he's been promising that they will be together forever but she continues to describe moments which he did things that could tear them apart. Rihanna sings "when we ride, we ride, its 'til the day that we die". In the second verse she flashes back on the time they had together. The song is written and produced by Stargate, the team that produced and co-wrote Ne-Yo's "So Sick" and "Sexy Love", Mis-Teeq's "Scandalous" as well as Rihanna's previous single "Unfaithful".

[edit] Music video

Rihanna in the music video.

The music video was shot in Miami as well as Florida Keys and was directed by Anthony Mandler. The video features Rihanna "chilling with her girls." On September 18 the video premiered on MuchMusic in Canada. The video premiered on Total Request Live on September 20. The video debuted on Total Request Live at #9 on September 25.

[edit] Trivia

This song made #38 on BET's Top 100 Video Countdown of 2006.

[edit] Remixes

The main remix commissioned for the single was produced by Stargate (who also produced Ne-Yo's "Sexy Love hit). Lenny Bertoldo, and a few others have been lined up for remixes of the song too.

An official fan-made 2Pac remix exists also.

[edit] Charts

Chart (2006)	Peak position
ARC Weekly Top 40	23
Australian ARIA Singles Chart	24
Belgium Singles Chart	40
Czech IFPI Chart	14
Dutch Tipparade	2
Finland Singles Chart	2
German Singles Chart	45
Irish Singles Chart	17
Italy Singles Chart	5
Lithuania Singles Chart	16
New Zealand Singles Chart	7
Philippines Singles Chart	2
Poland Singles Chart	4
South Africa (5 FM Top 40)	2
Swiss Singles Chart	3
UK Singles Chart	17
U.S. Billboard Hot 100	106
U.S. Billboard Hot Dance Club Play	1