Trivia

• “Love The Way You Lie (Part II)” serves as a sequel to “Love The Way You Lie” by Eminem, offering a continuation of the same relationship narrative from a reversed perspective.
• The track was initially recorded over a piano-driven instrumental without drums and without Eminem, based on Skylar Grey’s original demo, but that version went unreleased. The Skylar Grey demo later appeared as an iTunes-exclusive bonus track on Skylar Grey’s 2013 album Don’t Look Down. In 2023, Skylar Grey released a finished, re-recorded version of Part III as a non-album single.

Words from Rihanna

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When I first heard the idea about doing a part two, I was just completely against it. I just felt like you couldn’t beat the original. There’s no way you can outdo that, so why compete with it? We heard a broken-down version that was stripped down, just piano... I fell in love with it. We recorded it, then we did another version to the stripped-down version with drums, then we did another version with drums and Eminem. And then that was the one that just felt really good. I love both: I love the broken-down version, as well as the new one with Eminem.