Crate Digging (2016): Is Anti Rihanna’s Greatest Album

As part of our *A Decade Later* series, we revisit Rihanna’s *ANTI*, an album that didn’t just mark a new chapter in her career, but helped solidify her identity as an artist. Ten years later, ANTI feels remarkably current, the kind of record that could arrive today and still earn a similar reception. We discuss how the album explores love while also reflecting Rihanna’s relationship with music itself, including the sense that she may have been creating something that could stand as a final statement. More than anything, ANTI feels unmistakably like Rihanna. Its shifts in sound, mood, confidence, vulnerability, and experimentation capture different sides of her personality while showing just how far she had grown as an artist. And for anyone who misses Rihanna, ANTI might be the perfect album to return to.