<Tr> <Td> "Kiss It Better" (2016) </Td> <Td> "Needed Me" (2016) </Td> <Td> "This Is What You Came For" (2016) </Td> </Tr> <P> "Needed Me" is a song recorded by Barbadian singer and songwriter Rihanna from her eighth studio album, Anti (2016). It was written by Rihanna, Brittany Hazard, Charles Hinshaw and Derrus Rachel together with its producer DJ Mustard and its co-producers Twice as Nice and Frank Dukes . The song was serviced to the urban radio stations on March 30, 2016, as a follow up single from Anti together with "Kiss It Better". Afterwards, Def Jam released "Needed Me" to mainstream radio . "Needed Me" is a "mellow" dubstep - flavored electro - R&B song, that contains a downtempo and loose production with synthetic sounds . The song's lyrics discuss romantic rejection . </P> <P> In the United States, the song peaked at number seven on the Billboard Hot 100 becoming Rihanna's 29th top 10 single on the chart, spending sixteen weeks in the top ten and later becoming the singer's longest - charting hit . The song's accompanying music video was directed by film producer Harmony Korine and premiered on April 20, 2016, in celebration of 420 . The video is set in Miami and depicts Rihanna with a gun, riding on a motor bike, before attending a strip club where she kills a man . Rihanna performed "Needed Me" during the Anti World Tour . The song received a Grammy nomination for Best R&B Performance at the 59th ceremony . </P> <P> On September 15, 2014, American producer DJ Mustard confirmed that he and Rihanna had collaborated on a song for the singer's eighth studio album, Anti: "We haven't got our club record just yet but we have a ballad that I really like and that she likes too ." DJ Mustard worked on fifty songs in an attempt for them to be included on Anti, "Needed Me" was one of the last songs that he worked on . Speaking about the writing and production process Mustard stated "I was at the studio and I was like "I don't want to go, I don't feel like going, I've done so many songs, she's not going to like it'...The next day they told me she liked it . It was great that I had a team (Twice as Nice) that could take me and actually get it done because if it wasn't for them I probably wouldn't have went . There would have been no' Needed Me' ." </P>

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