Bebe Rexha launched a fiery tirade against the music industry on Tuesday morning (July 2), claiming in a series of X posts that she's being mistreated and sabotaged at every turn. The 34-year-old singer, who has helped write songs for everyone from Eminem to Selena Gomez, Tate McRae and Tinashe while scoring hits with G-Eazy, Martin Garrix and Florida Georgia Line, wrote that she has the kind of dirt that can to burn. things on the ground.
“I could bring down a BIG part of this industry. I am disappointed. I'm SUBMITTED,” wrote Rexha, who has been writing songs and performing since she was a teenager. “I've been so quiet for the longest time. I haven't seen the signs even though people keep mentioning them and they were SO OBVIOUS. And when I have spoken I have been silenced and PUNISHED by this industry Things have to change or I am telling ALL my truths. The good the bad and the ugly.' I am so quiet for the longest time. I haven't seen the signs even though people keep mentioning them and they were SO OBVIOUS. And when I have spoken I have been silenced and PUNISHED by this industry Things have to change or I am telling ALL my truths. The good the bad and the ugly.”
As of press time, a representative for Rexha's record label of the past decade-plus, Warner Records, had not returned Advertising signHer request for comment on the tweets and the singer had not specifically revealed what inspired her range of ammunition. When a fan asked “what happened again”, Rexha replied: “Again? You haven't even heard of 5 percent. You have no idea.”
In another exchange, a fan said “no one should be forgiven for the time they took your name off 'Hey Mama.' Rexha, Guetta and several others. Then, said Rexha Advertising sign that although she was credited as a co-writer, she was not initially listed as a vocalist on the track alongside Nicki Minaj and Afrojack, a situation that stuck with her given what she described at the time as an already difficult path in the music industry.
“I really wanted to be in it, because, you know, I signed up and got out, and now I signed up a second time, so it was hard,” the then-25-year-old said. “What ended up happening was that it looked like a lot of names in the title, so they wanted to keep the features as low-key as possible. That's what they told me and it makes sense to me. Probably more than two [featured] the names don't look good on the radio.”
On Tuesday, however, in response to that fan's “Hey Mama” comment, Rexha said: “Honey. That; Compared to all the other things you don't know? This is child's play.” The back-and-forth continued, with Rexha telling another commenter who asked what stopped her from speaking out that, “YOU ARE BEING PUNISHED.”
A decade removed from the 'Hey Mama' drama, Rexha also claimed that in the midst of promoting her latest single, 'I'm the Drama', she was struggling to promote the song due to what she claims are further obstacles. from the industry. “Marketing? I don't have a budget for it,” she wrote of the song, which was released on June 28. “IM FED UP.”
The singer who released her third full-length studio album, Bebe, in 2023, went on to explain her frustration, writing, “This doesn't just come from a place of anger. It's sadness. I'm sitting in my hotel room in London and crying my eyes out. I felt hopeless for the longest time. I've walked around this city a lot and I've met fans and they've really ignited something in me.” Amidst the series of laments, Rexha thanked her fans for constantly giving her the strength to carry on.
To date, Rexha has scored four top 10 hits, including her 2017 FGL collaboration “Meant To Be,” which reached No. 2 on the Billboard Hot 100, and G-Eazy's “Me, Myself.” 2015's & I' (No. 7), 'Hey Mama' (No. 8) and the 2022 David Guetta collaboration 'I'm Good (Blue)' (No. 4); Rexha recently attacked Eazy, calling him an “ungrateful loser” and dubbing their song “his only real hit.”
Check out Rexha's tweets below.
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