As her voice trembled when she spoke you could tell Rihanna was still shaken up over the earthquake in Haiti. The singer spoke with MTV about her collaboration with Jay-Z and Bono and stresses that the Haitian people will not be forgotten when the cameras turn off. That they are not alone and “We are not going to leave you stranded”.

She also explains how the collaboration came about:

“I got the call three days ago to be a part of this. Bono and Jay-Z called me up, they wanted me to be a part of it, and, of course, anything that can help Haiti, I want to be a part of,” Rihanna told MTV News on Friday night. “This song is really important. Lyrically, Jay-Z gets really, really deep in his verses, more than I’ve ever heard him get. He gets really real. I know a couple of people he’s singing about. We have mutual friends that suffered loss, they lost their family, they lost friends, and it really hits home. So this is really a song for Haiti, letting them know we are not going to leave you stranded; we are going to do every last thing to help you. You are not alone.” ”When I first heard about it, I was at home, and I kind of didn’t believe it. I was in such shock. An earthquake in Haiti was shocking to begin with. And [one of] that extent; a 7.0, that’s huge, that’s unheard of,” she said. “And being from the Caribbean, I was in shock for a long time. And when I started looking at the pictures, at the footage, seeing that little boy get beaten up for food, seeing people trapped under the rubble, kids not knowing where their parents are, bodies just getting dropped outside of the hospitals, that just made it really real.