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Rihanna: "Unapologetic"  Tuesday, Nov. 6, wasn't just Election
Day for Jay Brown. It was also the day the Roc Nation
president/­co-founder  had to hand over the final cut
of Rihanna's seventh album, "Unapologetic," just 13 days before
its scheduled release.  "We had our songs ready way beforehand,
but we never stop recording," Brown says a week before
"Unapologetic"'s release. "If we can record a month later, two
months later, all the way to Nov. 6, we're never going to stop
until that date. We're never content."  Hours after Brown turned
in the album at 6 a.m., 90-second snippets intended for iTunes
were leaked online. Fans were familiar with a good chunk of
Unapologetic by mid-afternoon. Three days later, Rihanna debuted
the album in full at a private listening event at New York's
40/40 Club (owned by Roc Nation co-founder Jay-Z), unveiling
some of her rawest, urban-leaning music to date and a few pop
surprises.  "She's the type of artist that make