Rihanna: Music with Chris Brown is "Innocent"

Rihanna sighting on the streets of Manhattan on Tuesday in New York City.

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By Alo Ceballos, FilmMagic

Rihanna called in to Ryan Seacrest's KIIS-FM radio show this morning and he asked the star about her controversial decision to feature her ex, Chris Brown, on her Birthday Cake song and for him to feature her on his Turn Up The Music song.

"The first song that came about was Birthday Cake. I mean we ended up recording them at the same time and executing them together, but I reached out to him about doing Birthday Cake because that's the only person that really – it made sense to do the record," she said.

"Just as a musician, despite everything else, that was going to be the person. You know I thought about rappers, and I've done that so many times, and the hottest R&B artist out right now is Chris Brown. So I wanted him on the track, and then in turn he was like 'Why don't you do the remix to my track?' and it was a tradeoff. We did two records. One for my fans. One for his fans, and that way our fans can come together. There shouldn't be a divide. You know? It's music, and it's innocent."