EXCLUSIVE: Details revealed on Rihanna and Chris Brown's new love song

EXCLUSIVE:

Multi-platinum-selling record producer Polow da Don has exclusively confirmed to The Times that he has been in the studio recently with Rihanna and Chris Brown, recording an as-yet-untitled love song that is scheduled to appear on Brown's new album later this year.

Polow (government name: Polow-Freache Jamal Fincher Jones) -- who has crafted hits for a constellation of hip-hop and R&B stars including Ludacris, the Pussycat Dolls, Rich Boy and Ciara -- issued the following statement to The Times:

"My heart goes out to both Chris Brown and Rihanna regarding what happened in the past. I enjoyed working with both of them. I think they are both great musical artists."

He declined to shed any more light on the recording process.

But a self-described "friend" -- a source close to the producer who asked not to be named due to the sensitive nature of legal proceedings against Brown -- provided more details:

• Polow da Don wrote the lyrics and music for the R&B-flavored song prior to Brown's Feb. 8 arrest. It was originally intended as a single for Rihanna, with a remix featuring Brown as a later roll-out.

• After the altercation, however, the producer urged the two singers to perform the song as a duet and they agreed. The source said the song's lyrics deal with love's "trials and tribulations, the way love is complicated and blind" in a way that seemed to speak directly to the couple's situation.

• Recording took place in Los Angeles at some point in the last month, although the source was not exactly sure when.

Polow da Don has worked with Brown in the past, most recently on his song "Superhuman (featuring Keri Hilson)," which was released in the fall. The producer is scheduled to speak more about his experience working with Brown and Rihanna on the "Dr. Phil" show Wednesday afternoon.

-- Chris Lee

Photo: Associated Press

Comments

[Pam]

Yeah...recording a song together will fix everything. I'm sure he'll never try to kill her again and beat her and bite her again. A song should be enough to make the world right again. His heart goes out to Chris Brown? What a bunch of crap. Someone should beat him up again and again and then bite him and slam his head into a wall, and then he can sing a duet of love to that person.

[Polomoche]

Ah yes, love's trials and tribulations - so complicated and blind one must occasionally beat the other to the point of hospitalization. I look forward to this touching duet!

[rob]

Chris Brown is dead to me and I will never ever support him or his record company.

What a damn coward he is.

[Dropping By]

Mr. Brown is going to go to prison. Think about that for a moment. Mr. Brown is going to go to prison. If Ms. Rhinna is too weak to consider what might be just in this situation, the laws of California will not be. Mr. Brown is going to go to prison. And in prison, I am certain he will be treated with all the *respect* he deserves -- because every prisoner there will know precisely what he did. Mr. Brown is going to go to prison, and he is not going to like it there.

[Mother of Sons Accused]

Yes Domestic violence is a terrible thing. But please remember it goes both ways. Why do society all ways condemn the man and automatically side with the female. Women abuse men as well. I hope you give as much air time to that. These girls/women of 2009 are very different from the women of earlier times, check the jails, gangs, equal rights remember everything else has become equal. but you should never hit a woman, You people do not read or listen. The statement says he pulled the car over and tried to put her out first. Why didn't she get out of the car, she has money and she has a cellphone the one she used to pretend to leave a message for her assistant to have the police waiting when she get there. You would have left that message for real and you don't make statements like that with the attacker their if you feared for your life and let them hear this because if it takes 5 mins for the police to get to you that gives 4mins 59 seconds for a person to kill you or you would not reach your destination at all. She admitted she was the initial aggressor, maybe his wounds aren't visible, could he really come and say to anyone She beats me, People would laugh, including law enforcement. Many of you obviously do not have a son, or been privy to the scenes of some drama queens and yes you people help to empower women by allowing this double standard to do all kinds of things to men, hit them, bite them, and punch them and they better not respond because if you hit them back they are automatically guilty. Women should not hit if they do not want to be hit back. And I don't care if he has had formal training. In training they teach how to respond to an attacker - they don't say but if it is a woman just take it or respond this way versus a man. And Size does not matter little women can do Big harm.

[John]

Mothers,

I do read and it stated that she couldn't get out of the car because of her seatbelt. So while she may have tried to get out of the car, I'm sure she had the time to think (in between punches) that she needed to remove her seatbelt.

I do agree with you that women can be the accuser. From what I read, she initiated this due to her reading a text message on his phone. Why is she ready his texts? If she confronted him on this and he said it's nothing, she should respect that.

[POLO]

Dropping, you are so right in what you had to say. I'm sure somebody is still going to say you are wrong for stating the facts. For example the girlfriend of one the Tampa Bay football players stabbed him in the neck and head. Let me guess he did something to deserve it the man always start it huh. She was the one that got charged but where is the media coverage of that? Its not any so to all those D V people you need to stop trying to make everything seem so one sided. Some women are just as bad as the men.

[Rocknrobo]

Dear Mother of Sons Accused:

I hope you see a counselor, as soon as you can. You need to address your own anger against women. You ascribe to them a sort of guile and dominance that is far too generalized and sweeping to be realistic. It's that victim mentality that creates abusers. Most abusers I've worked with believe, deep down, that they are the victim and that their aggression is justified. That blinds them to the gravity of the harm they are causing, and keeps them from taking responsibility for themselves. Of course no one should harm another. But nothing justifies what Brown did to Rihanna.

[Deanna]

Mother,

Have you SEEN the picture of Rihanna obtained by TMZ and posted at various spots around the web?

Yes, women can be bitchy and aggressive but there is absolutely NO excuse for beating another human being to a pulp. NONE.

[Dani]

I agree with Mother of Sons Accused.....she does not need to get counseling b/c she is obviously perfectly sane. I am a huge fan of both artist, mainly Rihanna. I have been in a domestic situation so I definatley DO NOT condone men beating women.And no I don't need help to settle hatred against women cuz I'm all about being strong after learning from my past. But....every situation is different!! The public can read about it, talk about it, watch the coverage, and read some more and no one will probably EVER know the whole truth about that night. Chris Brown is a tall, built guy and he definatley was waaaay out of line for going off on her like that. There are two sides to every story and I think BOTH of them were wrong. But like I said since he is stonger his hits are probably going to do more damage than hers. Everyone makes mistakes, think about yours for a second......I know I have done some things that if I was in the spotlight the world would think I am crazy as he**!! They are both so young and the emotions are so vivid when your that age!! Chris Brown and Rihanna have a lot of life experience to gain so maybe we should back off and give them room to live their life. He will learn that if someone can push your buttons and make you loose it then he should leave her alone.

[Mother of Sons Accused]

I watched my son be attacked by a cute little thing that looked like a little girl, She embarassed him whereever they went till his friends started asking first if she was coming and if so its okay they would catch him later, In addition to her hitting and, biting and punching him, I watched her punch walls and hit herself with the door, cut herself and blame it on my son. Maybe if I had not seen these things for myself, I might be like the rest of you, Last incidence My son had to pull me off of her, and I have not seen my son for 3 years because I had him move out of this state to get away from her. It hurts him that he cannot see or contact his child to which she used to manipulate him with he deposits money into my account and I inturn forward it to Child Support Services, I will wait until my granddaughter is 18 before I contact her and if she doesnt want to have a relationship then so be it, I have every receipt from the day she was born so no one can say my son did not take care of his responsiblities. He has a girlfriend now and she is nice, not a wanna be thug girl.

[debra Brinkmeier]

Chris Brown needs to go to prison because he absolutely will hit Rihanna again. Abusers always do. They say they are sorry and they loves us and of course they will never do it again, but they always do and the violence escalates. Hello Tina Turner? Hello Robin Givens? As bad as that attack was I guarantee Chris Brown has beat her up before.

[aleksandra]

I was shocked to hear that they are recording a love song. I mean who the hell are they kidding? When it hit the news that Rihanna got beat up I lost all my respect for Brown loser but when she took him back I lost all my respect for even bigger loser Rihanna. She had it coming and she deserves to get beat up again, and when that happes..no one will care!!! I personally think that this couple is pathetic and they deserve each other. I thought she was a lot smarter than that and she is a HUGE DISAPPOINTMENT.

[lance]

i think that he had no right to beat up Rihanna. I also think that she was very stupid to get back together with him.

[Toni]

My heart goes out to Chris Brown as well as Rhianna. They both were in the wrong.

[HippyHo]

Wow, Hollywood can raise money up from corpses, making dead people sing, why not exploit this HUGE media fuss and create a song about it? I don't believe for a second the song was already in the pipe prior to the incident. And in case it were, it's double inexcusable they changed the status of the song, makin it a duet, to create the most disgustive publicity stunt in music EVER.
They confide in people's stupidity, that's clear. People who are so naive to buy the "now they're together and happy and learning out of their mistakes" story.
Please. All this smells FAKE by lunar miles.
Brown is a beast (he won't change, especially after nobody in teh industry has kicked for real his ass and makin him lose the only thing he cares about: MONEY) and Rihanna is the worst model ever for any girl or woman out there.
Chris may be a decent singer, Rihanna isn't even that, and now we have a duet that testifies, or that it will testify, that human decency and brain are completely unvalued in this current business scene, as long as industry can create a product that tons of sheeps unaware of life and with an arguable music taste will buy, no matter what.
This is revolting, indeed. Credibility has totally vanished out from this scene.

[Deanna Peoples]

I feel like a lot of people try to say its chris brown fault but put your self in his shoes. If you driving and your phone ring and your girlfriend take it from and then start hitting you what are you going to think about.

[the law]

all those message are stupid!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! cuase he sings like a god and she sings like a goddess. okay i would still cheer for their songs. now if you were in a relationship with chris brown then if he hits you beat the hell out of him some women gonna black his eye and not gone be the one to play with. rhinnia crazy 2 she should have used martials arts on him i bet you he would never hit her again but once you start a beating habit it is very hard to break away from that type of situations. so still root for their songs

[Anna]

I dont support Chris Browns -Actions- but i still love his music. I to was in an abusive relationship but if that person is willing to get help, counseling and being open about it then why not give that person another chance. Its not like theyre still together they seperated thereselves frm the problem and maybe thats better for the both of them. Its not like Rihanna was so innocent, not sayin it was right for him to react the way he did but she did egg him on and push him and talk mess, if she was so mature she couldve just walked away frm the situation rather than talk mess and push his buttons, a person can only take so much.. But anyways i did exactly what Rihanna did, i got myself out but i gave that person chance after chance after chance and he did it over and over again. So she'll never know if he's completely changed bc she didnt give that second chance. Idk everyone has there opinions and im entitled to mine. I love his song Superhuman.... Its awesome! and as long as he continues to make good music i will continue to give my support.