The last component that I added was Rihanna, and she’s kinda like the angel that’s on the track, softening it up and giving it that caring feeling, because this hook is so powerful. “I knew that Jay would be able to tell a story, and that Bono would be able to sing and bring it home. Jay-Z performed the verses, while Bono and Rihanna dueted on the chorus, although Rihanna largely drowned out Bono. The song they played was a new one Bono and Jay-Z wrote in response to the earthquake called Stranded (Haiti Mon Amour). The U2 frontman’s work on the song features as part of the soundtrack album for the Don Hardy-directed documentary film Citizen Penn, which was shot in the wake of the 2010 Haiti earthquake and. After three hours of phone tag, they all agreed to the project, which came together in geographically scattered sessions, with extra production work by the Edge. Bono and Edge performed at the London venue with Jay-Z and Rihanna. Swizz Beatz got the song started by sending simultaneous texts to Jay-Z and Bono - but when they both called, he accidentally hung up on Jay while trying to conference them. “So me and Bono started going back and forth with ideas, and he was like, ‘You know this word stranded keeps standing out to me’ and I asked him to sing it, and he put me on hold ’cause he’s recording the ideas on a Dictaphone - so he did it there and then on the phone.” Stranded (Haiti Mon Amour) is a charitable track by Jay Z, Bono, The Edge and Rihanna for Hope for Haiti Now, a live album recorded by various artists to benefit charities working after the. “The idea of the song is ‘We’re not gonna leave you stranded’ and that’s what the chorus is,” Swizz Beatz tells Rolling Stone. Bono wrote the hook for “ Stranded” - his new Haiti benefit single with Jay-Z and Rihanna, which is subtitled either “Haiti Mon Amour” or “Haiti Mi Amore” - while on the phone with producer Swizz Beatz.