Lizzo Says ‘Overwhelmingly Positive’ Response To Her ‘Whim Whammie’ Remix Inspired Her New Mixtape

Lizzo Says ‘Overwhelmingly Positive’ Response To Her ‘Whim Whammie’ Remix Inspired Her New Mixtape

Lizzo is getting major love for her return to rap!

Fresh off the release of her mixtape My Face Hurts From Smiling, the Grammy-winning artist opened up about how a playful remix of Pluto and YK Niece’s viral hit “Whim Whamiee” inspired her to create an entire rap project.

In an interview with Rolling Stone, Lizzo explained:

“So what happened was I have a song called ‘B**ch’ that’s coming out in the fall, but I needed to do radio versions of it, because it’s called ‘B**ch.’ So on a whim, no pun intended, I got the beat for ‘Whim Whamiee’ and went in the studio and was like, ‘While I’m doing my clean version for ‘B**ch,’ I’m going to just lay down a verse real quick on this song that I just think is so fire.’”

She continued:

“I put that sh*t on the internet, and the response was so overwhelmingly positive. It was both sides of the internet being like, ‘We didn’t know Lizzo could rap.’ ‘Y’all forgot Lizzo could rap?’ ‘We want this, we want this.’”

 

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After the buzz around the unofficial remix, renamed “Yitty on Yo Titties” for her mixtape, Lizzo had her rep book studio time and began asking producers to send her beats, something she said she rarely does.

The result was several days of songwriting and an acclaimed impromptu project, which Lizzo said she’s incredibly proud of despite it being vastly different than the upcoming album she’s working on for her label. She added:

“I wrote like four songs a day for four days. And I made a 12-song mixtape. And I am just so f**king happy and so proud of it because it was just like me freestyling again.”

Are you tuning in to Lizzo’s new mixtape?

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