Will Rihanna’s third pregnancy delay her long-awaited album even more?

Please don’t extremity nan music.

That’s what members of Rihanna’s “Navy” of fans person implored of nan superstar, who hasn’t released an medium since 2016’s Anti.”

And now that nan vocalist has revealed that she is pregnant pinch her 3rd kid pinch A$AP Rocky — making her babe bump debut astatine nan Met Gala connected Monday nighttime — she was asked if her long-awaited ninth workplace LP, referred to arsenic “R9,” mightiness beryllium further delayed.

“Noooooo!” she told Entertainment Tonight, though she admitted immoderate aspects mightiness person to wait. “Maybe a mates videos. But I tin [still] sing.”

Rihanna, 37, already shares sons RZA, astir 3, and Riot Rose, 1, pinch Rocky, who was 1 of nan co-chairs of this year’s Met Gala, held astatine nan Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Costume Institute successful Manhattan.

As she closed nan bluish carpet astatine the star-studded event — wearing a cropped Marc Jacobs suit jacket, wool bustier apical and pinstripe skirt — Rihanna joked pinch reporters that “I brought nan kid.”

She added to ET: “I’m shockingly emotion OK and not excessively overwhelmed astatine nan moment.”

But she admitted to having immoderate issues earlier successful her pregnancy. “At first, it was kinda like, ‘Ahhhhhhhh,’ and ‘I’m tired,’” nan nine-time Grammy victor said. “But past I’m excited.”

Rocky, 36, besides gushed astir expecting their 3rd kid astatine nan Met Gala.

“We were tired of holding that, and it was clip to show nan group what we was cooking up,” he told nan Associated Press. “I’m gladsome everybody’s happy for us, because we’re decidedly happy.”

Shakira panicked erstwhile she thought she accidentally revealed Rihanna’s pregnancy astatine nan Met Gala.

“Rihanna, I want to spot her! Yeah, I want to spot her truthful bad,” she told NBC News. “And I conscionable heard nan news too.”

When nan newsman appeared to beryllium confused astir Shakira’s comment, nan Colombian superstar replied, “She’s pregnant.” But quickly realizing that nan newsman didn’t cognize astir Rihanna’s gestation yet, she asked, “Was I not expected to opportunity that?”

Rihanna and Rocky announced they were expecting their first kid successful January 2022 pinch a saccharine photoshoot taken successful New York City. Rihanna debuted her babe bump while wearing a pinkish jacket, while Rocky wore blue.

At nan time, nan brace didn’t uncover if they were expecting a boy aliases a girl. Their boy RZA was calved 4 months later.

Less than a twelvemonth later, Rihanna confirmed her 2nd gestation while performing astatine nan 2023 Super Bowl halftime show. She gave commencement to Riot Rose that August.

As for “R9,” Rihanna precocious told Harper’s Bazaar that contrary to rumors, nan medium would not beryllium reggae.

“There’s nary genre now. That’s why I waited,” she said in her March screen story. “After a while, I looked astatine it, and I was like, this overmuch clip distant from euphony needs to count for nan adjacent point everyone hears. It has to count. It has to matter.

“I person to show them nan worthy successful nan wait,” she continued. “I cannot put up thing mediocre. After waiting 8 years, you mightiness arsenic good conscionable hold immoderate more.”