Lizzo says that tons of rappers slide into her DMs after she achieved mainstream success with the discharge of her third studio album, Cuz I Love You, in 2019. Discussing her love life throughout an look on the podcast, Friends Keep Secrets, Lizzo defined how she wasn’t used to males discovering her enticing.
The subject started with Benny Blanco asking Lizzo for the “craziest” superstar to slip into her DMs. “All of them,” she stated, referencing hip-hop artists. “I was really confused. Mind you, I grew up a big girl and I grew up like, guys didn’t like me like that. Where I grew up, if you were fat, you were ugly, which, that’s not true. Fat doesn’t equal ugly, but where I grew up, that’s what it was. So, I was kind of invisible to all the guys. No one liked me in high school. One guy liked me in high school, and he was like, so ashamed that he would pass me notes. ‘Come and hook up with me at this place,” and I used to be like, ‘No, I’m not gonna do this. What the f*ck is flawed with you.'”
Lizzo continued: “When all this shifted, and I began getting these DMs, I used to be confused. I used to be like, ‘I do not even know what this individual’s intention is. I believed it was all pleasant. People needed to inform me, ‘Hey, no. This individual is attempting to f*ck you.’ I used to be like, ‘What?’ I’m so oblivious.”
As the clip has been circulating on social media, followers have been having blended reactions. “This is precisely why you gotta watch out being good to folks cuz then they pals or delusions gon fuel it regardless of what sense is telling them,” one user wrote on X (formerly Twitter). Another questioned: “Every is a stretch. So, Jay Z?”
Lizzo’s “Don’t Make Me Love U”
Lizzo’s interview with Benny Blanco comes after placing out a brand new music video for her newest single, “Don’t Make Me Love U,” earlier this month. She completed recording her fifth studio album, Love in Real Life, final 12 months, however has but to launch it.
