Bebe Rexha launched a fiery broadside towards a music business on Tuesday morning (July 2), claiming in a sequence of X posts that she’s been mistreated and sabotaged at each flip. The 34-year-old singer who has helped write songs for everybody from Eminem to Selena Gomez, Tate McRae and Tinashe whereas scoring hits with G-Eazy, Martin Garrix and Florida Georgia Line wrote that she has the sort of inside dust that would burn issues to the bottom.
“I may deliver down a BIG chunk of this business. I AM annoyed. I Have been UNDERMINED,” wrote Rexha, who has been writing songs and performing since she was a teen. “I’ve been so quiet for the longest time. I haven’t seen the indicators though folks continuously are bringing them up and so they have been SO OBVIOUS. And when I’ve spoken up I’ve been silence and PUNISHED by this business Issues should change or I’m telling ALL of my truths. The great the dangerous and the ugly.’ I’ve been so quiet for the longest time. I haven’t seen the indicators though folks continuously are bringing them up and so they have been SO OBVIOUS. And when I’ve spoken up I’ve been silence and PUNISHED by this business Issues should change or I’m telling ALL of my truths. The great the dangerous and the ugly.”
At press time a spokesperson for Rexha’s label for the previous decade-plus, Warner Data, had not returned Billboard‘s request for touch upon the tweets and the singer had not particularly revealed what impressed her sequence of fired-up missives. When a fan requested “what occurred once more,” Rexha replied, “Once more? You haven’t even heard 5 %. You may have NO IDEA.”
In one other change, a fan opined that, “no one must be forgiven for the time they took your title out of ‘Hey Mama.’” The tweet appeared to reference the 2015 David Guetta track “Hey Mama,” which was co-written by Rexha, Guetta and a number of other others. On the time, Rexha advised Billboard that although she was credited as a co-writer, she was not initially listed as a vocalist on the monitor alongside Nicki Minaj and Afrojack, a state of affairs that caught in her craw given what she described at the moment as an already rocky path within the music business.
“I actually wished to be featured on it, as a result of, you recognize, I’ve been signed and dropped, and now signed a second time, so it’s been exhausting, the then-25-year-old stated. “What ended up taking place was that it appeared like plenty of names on the title, so that they wished to maintain as many low options as doable. That’s what I used to be advised, and it is smart to me. I suppose greater than two [featured] names don’t look good on the radio.”
On Tuesday, although, in response to that fan’s “Hey Mama” remark, Rexha stated, “My love. That? In comparison with all the opposite stuff you don’t learn about? That’s Baby’s play.” The back-and-forth continued, with Rexha telling one other commenter who requested what has stopped her from talking out that, “THEY PUNISH YOU.”
A decade faraway from the “Hey Mama” drama, Rexha additionally claimed that within the midst of selling her newest single, “I’m the Drama,” she’s been struggling to, nicely, promote the track due to what she claims are additional roadblocks from the business. “Advertising? I’ve no funds for that,” she wrote of the track that dropped on June 28. “IM FED UP.”
The singer who launched her third full-length studio album, Bebe, in 2023, continued to clarify her frustration, writing, “This isn’t simply coming from a spot of anger. It’s disappointment. I’m sitting in my resort room in London Crying my eyes out. I’ve felt hopeless for the longest time. I’ve been strolling quite a bit by means of this metropolis and assembly followers and so they have actually ignited one thing within me.” Within the midst of the string of laments, Rexha thanked her followers for frequently giving her the energy to hold on.
So far, Rexha has scored 4 prime 10 hits, together with her 2017 FGL collab, “Meant To Be,” which peaked at No. 2 on the Billboard Sizzling 100, in addition to the 2015 G-Eazy team-up “Me, Myself & I” (No. 7), “Hey Mama” (No. 8) and 2022’s David Guetta collab “I’m Good (Blue)” (No. 4); Rexha lately lashed out at Eazy, calling him an “ungrateful loser” and dubbing their track his “solely actual hit.”
Take a look at Rexha’s tweets under.
