Rapper Iggy Azalea is getting a lot of grief after she sent some petty shade Lizzo’s way when Lizzo said she wanted to break Azalea’s Billboard chart record.
Azalea, 29, holds the all-time mark for a female rap song at the top of the Billboard Hot 100 chart with six consecutive weeks. Lizzo, 31, was ecstatic that her current single, “Truth Hurts,” has been No. 1 for five weeks, and she hopes to surpass Azalea’s “Fancy” and stay number one for seven consecutive weeks.
First, the Detroit-born Lizzo, whose real name is Melissa Viviane Jefferson, used the occasion to share an inspirational message for her 5.6 million “Lizzbians” who may feel marginalized and underappreciated in society.
https://www.instagram.com/p/B19HURvBxnj/?utm_source=ig_embed
Lizzo climbed onto Twitter to openly announce that she wanted to break the Billboard chart performance for the Australian-born rapper, whose real name is Amethyst Amelia Kelly.
YALL… IF WE KEEP THIS UP FOR 2 MORE WEEKS… TRUTH HURTS COULD BE THE LONGEST FEMALE RAP #1 OF ALL TIME….. RIGHT NOW ITS ‘FANCY’ 🤩😱🤯 CAN WE DO IT?! https://t.co/KEsWR0ts69
— FOLLOW @YITTY (@lizzo) September 30, 2019
Lizzo even gave some shout outs to a friend who worked on Azalea’s record, which seems to have struck Azalea the wrong way.
*Fancy is a BOP and my homie @charli_xcx is genius on it (STREAM CHARLI- HER NEW ALBUM NOW) https://t.co/8yLbJNvXt2
— FOLLOW @YITTY (@lizzo) September 30, 2019
According to Billboard, Azalea wrote and deleted a defensive response Tweet that indicated she was irked by Lizzo’s tweets: ““I could have SWORN I was the one rapping that song but okay …”
In response, Azalea used her Twitter account to promote the No. 2 song in the nation this week, “Seniorita,” with the intention of overtaking Lizzo’s “Truth Hurts” and preventing her from breaking Azalea’s record.
https://twitter.com/godisarianator/status/1178771202669764608
After Azalea got her wig peeled by social media for allegedly hating on Lizzo, she came back and said she was merely joking and was simply throwing some “petty” hate for fun.
https://twitter.com/IGGYAZALEA/status/1178848286859505664?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1178848286859505664&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fpeople.com%2Fmusic%2Figgy-azalea-tells-fans-stream-senorita-after-lizzo-tweet%2F
Azalea also tried to calm the waters when the verbal darts and arrows continued zipping by her head at a furious rate:
https://twitter.com/IGGYAZALEA/status/1178806289297809408?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1178806289297809408&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fpeople.com%2Fmusic%2Figgy-azalea-tells-fans-stream-senorita-after-lizzo-tweet%2F
Finally, Azalea cracked when the Twitter hate grew hours old and was not relenting.
https://twitter.com/IGGYAZALEA/status/1178821855962112001?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1178821855962112001&ref_url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.justjared.com%2F2019%2F09%2F30%2Flizzo-wants-to-beat-iggy-azaleas-billboard-record-iggy-reacts%2F
What do you make of Lizzo’s open desire to break Iggy Azalea’s record and the response to Azalea’s pettiness?
