Needed Me

"Needed Me"
Single by Rihanna
from the album Anti
Released	March 30, 2016 (2016-03-30)
Studio	Westlake Recording Studios, (Los Angeles)
Genre	Electro-R&B
Length	3:11
Label	Roc Nation Westbury Road
Songwriter(s)	Dijon McFarlane Robyn Fenty Nick Audino Lewis Hughes Khaled Rohaim Te Whiti Warbrick Adam Feeney Brittany Hazzard Charles Hinshaw Derrus Rachel
Producer(s)	DJ Mustard
Rihanna singles chronology
"Work" (2016) "Kiss It Better" / "Needed Me" (2016) "This Is What You Came For" (2016)
Music video
"Needed Me" on YouTube

"Needed Me" is a song by Barbadian singer Rihanna from her eighth studio album, Anti (2016). It was written by Rihanna, Brittany Hazard, Charles Hinshaw, Derrus Rachel, the producer DJ Mustard, and the co-producers Twice as Nice and Frank Dukes. Roc Nation and Westbury Road sent "Needed Me" to US urban contemporary radio on March 30, 2016, together with "Kiss It Better". Afterwards, Def Jam sent "Needed Me" to contemporary hit radio. "Needed Me" is a "mellow" dubstep-influenced electro-R&B song, that contains a downtempo and loose production with synthetic sounds and hard heavy trap beats. The song's lyrics discuss romantic rejection.

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.