Rihanna 'pressured will.i.am for song'

Rihanna has claimed that she pressured will.i.am into giving her a song.

The rapper played Rihanna a track called 'Photographs', which he had written for the Black Eyed Peas, but the Rated R star immediately became fixated by it.

"I was in the studio 'cause it was the last night before we had to hand the album in and I was recording," she told Fuse.tv. "[I] went back [to his house] and he didn't really want to play it at first.

"He was like, 'OK, Rihanna's here now. You come to strong-arm me?' But when I heard it, the story is so, so real."

She continued: "Everybody knows that feeling that after a break-up, you just feel empty, like I just spent the last how many years in a relationship building this foundation and all I have left to show for it is some photographs, some memories.

"It was so personal and I wasn't leaving the studio without it."

Rihanna also revealed how she persuaded will.i.am to give up the song, adding: "It was like three hours long, we listened to the song over and over again and we just kind of stared each other down. And finally he said, 'OK, but you have to come on tour with us'."