@Skippy: Are you really that stupid? Well you obviously are! Of course the song is about CB! (Just like Em's verse from both songs is about his ex Kim) Who the hell else would it be about?? Did some other dude whip her ass and we just don't know about it?? Perhaps Matt? Why would she re make 'that' song about DV and put it on her album if it wasn't personal to her??

You heard her right, your lil princess just said in a song, ' ...but you'll always be my HERO, even though you lost your mind'. She basically saying she has forgiven him and he will always have a special place in her heart, even though he hurt, literally and figuratively! Face it, if Rihanna wasn't worried about her career and the backlash from fans and the mainstream media she would still be with him today! She is still in love with him! Matt is just a stand in! "California King Bed' is about him also! Her music is a way of her expressing herself, but she is not really over it!

She basically admitted in the song (and hinted at it in numerous interviews including 20/20) that it was a volatile relationship on both ends! Listen to it when she says the word 'masochrist'. That means 1) the deriving of pleasure, or the tendency to derive pleasure, from being humiliated or mistreated, either by another or by oneself.
2). A willingness or tendency to subject oneself to unpleasant or trying experiences

Rihanna got off on pushing CB's buttons and getting a rise out of him because she loved the sexual gratification of it later. Listen to CB's 'Talk That Shit', I totally believe that song is about her too! They would yell and scream and FIGHT each other and then have crazy make up sex later! She was just as much abusive to CB, it's just her abuse went unnoticed and got over shadowed by him that night!

Didn't ya'll say that 'Rated R' was her best album yet?? Well, ya'll should be thanking CB because he was the inspiration behind her 'deep and personal album'. Almost every damn song was about him! 'Cold Case Love' (love that one), "Stupid In Love', 'The Last Song', ' Photographs', 'Firebomb' (that one too, even though she sounded horrible when she performed it live and almost ruined it for me) 'Russian Roulette'. Hell even 'Rude Boy', you know CB was keeping her satisfied in that department!

By the way...still waiting on CB's mugshot! Almost two years and still no sign of it! Interesting...