Lizzo takes a slight jab at Candace Owens in a snippet of what appears to be an unreleased track.
Lizzo and SZA recently hit the studio together after grabbing dinner, later previewing a new song on Instagram. Ahead of clips of the two dancing to the track—which SZA claims will appear on Lizzo’s upcoming project—the 37-year-old can be heard addressing longtime critic Candace Owens with the line: “City Girls up, boys on their period … Candace Owens somewhere pissed / Nia, kiss my woo! / N****a, get bent.”
Owens was pissed at Lizzo last March when she went on the Joe Budden Podcast and criticized the singer for engaging in what she called “problematic behavior.”
“I don’t like the game that people play where they do something that is so obviously outrageous, like, you know, Lizzo in a thong shaking your ass cheeks,” she began. “You know what that was.”
“This is a. Disgusting, b. Perverted, and people take their kids to the games. Is there no space that’s safe?” Owens continued. “And then she’s like, ‘if you don’t like it, that’s your problem.’ Like no, you are being problematic. And now you’re playing the game where you do something outrageous, and then, when we outrage, you pretend that we’re the crazy ones. I’m not dealing with that. Stop gaslighting me, okay?”
Lizzo hopped on social media soon after to seemingly respond to Owens, revealing that what her critics say about her bothers her.
“Hey everyone, it’s come to my attention that some of you think I have thick skin,” said Lizzo, lip-syncing words from a popular audio reel on Instagram. “I don’t. I never have, I never will. Everything you say deeply, deeply hurts me, affects me, keeps me up at night; you have to be nice to me. That’s the deal moving forward, okay?”
In the caption of her post, she continued her thought. “I literally just be minding my business please keep my name out ya mouf unless it’s something positive or real.. pls n thank u.”
In May, Lizzo explained her recent weight loss on The Breakfast Club, “I think I had to start with cleaning out my mind and my energy and clearing out all of the negativity around me. And I feel like I released so much I was holding on,” she said.
