No stranger to the strip club, Rihanna hopped up on the pole herself for the first time during a recent video shoot for her song, "Pour It Up," and shared the steamy snaps on Instagram.

"My first pole lesson!" RiRi happily posted on Wednesday morning.

"Am I getting it?" she captioned another shot.

Making sure the singer didn't completely embarrass herself was famed pole dancer Nicole "The Pole" Williams, who owns a pole dancing and fitness center, Allure, in L.A.

"Pole dancing is a powerful movement and I absolutely love how empowered and confident my clients feel after their first class," Williams writes on her website. "Pole dancing is no longer a hidden art form. We're taking it out of the strip clubs and bringing it to the ave