Lizzo
Melissa Jefferson (born April 27, 1988 in Detroit, Michigan, U.S.), known professionally as Lizzo, is an American rapper and singer. She is a founding member of indie hip hop groups The Chalice, Grrrl Prty, The Clerb, Ellypseas, and Absynthe. Her debut album, Lizzobangers, was released in 2013. In 2015, she released her sophomore album, Big Grrrl Small World.
Born in Detroit in the late 80’s, Lizzo spent much of her formative years in the church Read Full BioMelissa Jefferson (born April 27, 1988 in Detroit, Michigan, U.S.), known professionally as Lizzo, is an American rapper and singer. She is a founding member of indie hip hop groups The Chalice, Grrrl Prty, The Clerb, Ellypseas, and Absynthe. Her debut album, Lizzobangers, was released in 2013. In 2015, she released her sophomore album, Big Grrrl Small World.
Born in Detroit in the late 80’s, Lizzo spent much of her formative years in the church, where she was raised on the gospel sounds of The Winans, The Clark Sisters, and Fred Hammond, along with mainstay secular artists such as Stevie Wonder and Elton John. At the age of 10 her family moved to Houston, TX, and Lizzo was exposed to a wide array of emerging Southern musical styles, from the trademark chopped and screwed rap tracks of the underground, to the progressive and polished R&B sounds of groups like Destiny’s Child that were raising the city’s national profile to new heights. In fact, it was after she stumbled across a Destiny’s Child performance at Wal-Mart that Lizzo—then a 5th grader-- was inspired to start writing music on her own. Over the next decade that decision would take her through the trenches of some of the most varied musical genres: R&B girl groups (I.N.I.T.I.A.L.S., Cornrow Clique), progressive rock bands (Elypseas), solo rap ventures, and electro-pop duos (Lizzo & The Larva Ink).
In 2011 she made the move to Minneapolis with Larva Ink in order to be a part of that city’s blossoming and collaborative musical community. Lizzo & The Larva Ink was well received there, and the group earned a few encouraging nods from the press. Lizzo was soon introduced to Sophia Eris and Claire de Lune, with whom she would form The Chalice, the three-piece all-female rap/R&B group that would elevate Lizzo’s profile and reputation. In 2012 The Chalice released We Are The Chalice, an album that would gain them instant local success amongst fans and critics alike, garnering City Pages’ prestigious Best New Band and Picked To Click accolades in the same year.
The success brought setbacks, though, and a falling out soon led to the demise of Lizzo & The Larva Ink. Feeling discontent with the loss of one group and the hurried blur of success of another, Lizzo was creatively drained from writing We Are The Chalice in two short months. She found herself in the throes of her first full-blown case of writer’s block. Unable to create music for herself, she began listening to several different local albums in hopes of finding inspiration. It was LAVA BANGERS, a 20-track instrumental mixtape from Doomtree producer and Minneapolis music vet Lazerbeak, that ultimately caught her ear. Beaks’ beats proved the fix for Lizzo’s problem. “I sat at home and listened to LAVA BANGERS, and when “Lift Every Voice” came on, my writer’s block was cured,” says Lizzo. “I think it revived my gospel roots. I wrote pages and pages of songs, and finally reached out to Lazerbeak, not thinking anything would come of it.”
Her timing could not have been better. Beak, impressed with Lizzo’s output with The Chalice, as well as her guest appearances on several other local releases, was looking for a change of pace from his daily Doomtree production and business responsibilities. He immediately signed on to work on some demos. Beat tapes were exchanged, songs were written, and mutual friend and musical collaborator Ryan Olson (Totally Gross National Product founder, Gayngs/Marijuana Deathsquads mastermind) was brought on board to creatively oversee the project. Olson recorded and edited all 15 tracks in his bedroom studio, bringing in laid back hype-man Cliff Rhymes along the way to add even more layers to Lizzo’s dynamic vocals.
LIZZOBANGERS is the culmination of that four-way collaboration, an album that manages to capture all of the varied musical influences of Lizzo’s upbringing and combine them with the forward-thinking experimental production style of Beak and Olson. The end result is a brave new project that encapsulates the best parts of both the familiar and the future.
Born in Detroit in the late 80’s, Lizzo spent much of her formative years in the church Read Full BioMelissa Jefferson (born April 27, 1988 in Detroit, Michigan, U.S.), known professionally as Lizzo, is an American rapper and singer. She is a founding member of indie hip hop groups The Chalice, Grrrl Prty, The Clerb, Ellypseas, and Absynthe. Her debut album, Lizzobangers, was released in 2013. In 2015, she released her sophomore album, Big Grrrl Small World.
Born in Detroit in the late 80’s, Lizzo spent much of her formative years in the church, where she was raised on the gospel sounds of The Winans, The Clark Sisters, and Fred Hammond, along with mainstay secular artists such as Stevie Wonder and Elton John. At the age of 10 her family moved to Houston, TX, and Lizzo was exposed to a wide array of emerging Southern musical styles, from the trademark chopped and screwed rap tracks of the underground, to the progressive and polished R&B sounds of groups like Destiny’s Child that were raising the city’s national profile to new heights. In fact, it was after she stumbled across a Destiny’s Child performance at Wal-Mart that Lizzo—then a 5th grader-- was inspired to start writing music on her own. Over the next decade that decision would take her through the trenches of some of the most varied musical genres: R&B girl groups (I.N.I.T.I.A.L.S., Cornrow Clique), progressive rock bands (Elypseas), solo rap ventures, and electro-pop duos (Lizzo & The Larva Ink).
In 2011 she made the move to Minneapolis with Larva Ink in order to be a part of that city’s blossoming and collaborative musical community. Lizzo & The Larva Ink was well received there, and the group earned a few encouraging nods from the press. Lizzo was soon introduced to Sophia Eris and Claire de Lune, with whom she would form The Chalice, the three-piece all-female rap/R&B group that would elevate Lizzo’s profile and reputation. In 2012 The Chalice released We Are The Chalice, an album that would gain them instant local success amongst fans and critics alike, garnering City Pages’ prestigious Best New Band and Picked To Click accolades in the same year.
The success brought setbacks, though, and a falling out soon led to the demise of Lizzo & The Larva Ink. Feeling discontent with the loss of one group and the hurried blur of success of another, Lizzo was creatively drained from writing We Are The Chalice in two short months. She found herself in the throes of her first full-blown case of writer’s block. Unable to create music for herself, she began listening to several different local albums in hopes of finding inspiration. It was LAVA BANGERS, a 20-track instrumental mixtape from Doomtree producer and Minneapolis music vet Lazerbeak, that ultimately caught her ear. Beaks’ beats proved the fix for Lizzo’s problem. “I sat at home and listened to LAVA BANGERS, and when “Lift Every Voice” came on, my writer’s block was cured,” says Lizzo. “I think it revived my gospel roots. I wrote pages and pages of songs, and finally reached out to Lazerbeak, not thinking anything would come of it.”
Her timing could not have been better. Beak, impressed with Lizzo’s output with The Chalice, as well as her guest appearances on several other local releases, was looking for a change of pace from his daily Doomtree production and business responsibilities. He immediately signed on to work on some demos. Beat tapes were exchanged, songs were written, and mutual friend and musical collaborator Ryan Olson (Totally Gross National Product founder, Gayngs/Marijuana Deathsquads mastermind) was brought on board to creatively oversee the project. Olson recorded and edited all 15 tracks in his bedroom studio, bringing in laid back hype-man Cliff Rhymes along the way to add even more layers to Lizzo’s dynamic vocals.
LIZZOBANGERS is the culmination of that four-way collaboration, an album that manages to capture all of the varied musical influences of Lizzo’s upbringing and combine them with the forward-thinking experimental production style of Beak and Olson. The end result is a brave new project that encapsulates the best parts of both the familiar and the future.
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Truth Hurts
Lizzo Lyrics
Why are men great 'til they gotta be great?
Woo
I just took a DNA test, turns out I'm 100% that bitch
Even when I'm crying crazy
Yeah, I got boy problems, that's the human in me
Bling bling, then I solve 'em, that's the goddess in me
You coulda had a bad bitch, non-committal
Help you with your career just a little
You're 'posed to hold me down, but you're holding me back
And that's the sound of me not calling you back
Why are men great 'til they gotta be great?
Don't text me, tell it straight to my face
Best friend sat me down in the salon chair
Shampoo press, get you out of my hair
Fresh photos with the bomb lighting
New man on the Minnesota Vikings
Truth hurts, needed something more exciting
Bom bom bi dom bi dum bum bay
You tried to break my heart?
Oh, that breaks my heart
That you thought you ever had it
No, you ain't from the start
Hey, I'm glad you're back with your bitch
I mean who would wanna hide this?
I will never, ever, ever, ever, ever be your side chick
I put the sing in single
Ain't worried 'bout a ring on my finger
So you can tell your friend, "Shoot your shot" when you see 'em
It's OK, he already in my DMs
Why are men great 'til they gotta be great?
Don't text me, tell it straight to my face
Best friend sat me down in the salon chair
Shampoo press, get you out of my hair
Fresh photos with the bomb lighting
New man on the Minnesota Vikings
Truth hurts, needed something more exciting
Bom bom bi dom bi dum bum bay
I'ma hit you back in a minute
I don't play tag, bitch, I been it
We don't fuck with lies, we don't do goodbyes
We just keep it pushing like ay ay ay
I'ma hit you back in a minute
I don't play tag, bitch, I been it
We don't fuck with lies, we don't do goodbyes
We just keep it pushing like ay ay ay
Why are men great 'til they gotta be great?
Don't text me, tell it straight to my face
Best friend sat me down in the salon chair
Shampoo press, get you out of my hair
Fresh photos with the bomb lighting
New man on the Minnesota Vikings
Truth hurts, needed something more exciting
Bom bom bi dom bi dum bum bay
(With the bomb lighting)
(Minnesota Vikings)
(Yee, eh, yeah, yeah, yeah)
Lyrics © Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd., Warner Chappell Music, Inc.
Written by: Jesse St John, Melissa Viviane Jefferson, Ricky Reed, Steven Cheung
Lyrics Licensed & Provided by LyricFind
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Brenda Barros
Por que os homens são ótimos até precisarem ser ótimos?
Woo!
Acabei de fazer um teste de DNA, parece que sou 100% fodona
Mesmo quando choro loucamente
Sim, eu tenho problemas com garotos, essa é a humana em mim
Prontinho, aí eu resolvo, essa é a deusa em mim
Você poderia ter uma vadia má, sem compromisso
Te ajudaria com a sua carreira, só um pouco
Você deveria me apoiar, mas você está me reprimindo
E esse é meu som de eu não te ligando de volta
Por que os homens são ótimos até precisarem ser ótimos? (Até precisarem ser ótimos?)
Não me mande mensagem, fale direto na minha cara (fale direto na minha cara)
Minha melhor amiga me fez sentar numa cadeira de salão (numa cadeira de salão)
Passou shampoo, te tirou da minha cabeça
Fotos novas com uma iluminação bombástica (iluminação bombástica)
Tenho um novo homem do time Minnesota Vikings (time Minnesota Vikings)
A verdade dói, eu precisava de algo mais emocionante
Bom, bom, bi, dom, bi, dum, bum, bay
Você tentou partir meu coração?
Ah, isso parte meu coração
Que você pensou que já teve
Não, você nunca teve
Ei, estou feliz que você voltou com sua vadia
Quero dizer, quem iria querer esconder isso?
Eu nunca, nunca, nunca, nunca vou ser sua amante
Eu coloquei o sol em solteira
Não me preocupo em ter um anel no meu dedo
Então, você pode dizer ao seu amigo
Pra tentar a sorte quando você o vir
Está tudo bem, ele já está na minha DM
Por que os homens são ótimos até precisarem ser ótimos? (Até precisarem ser ótimos?)
Não me mande mensagem, fale direto na minha cara (fale direto na minha cara)
Minha melhor amiga me fez sentar numa cadeira de salão (numa cadeira de salão)
Passou shampoo, te tirou da minha cabeça
Fotos novas com uma iluminação bombástica (iluminação bombástica)
Tenho um novo homem do time Minnesota Vikings (time Minnesota Vikings)
A verdade dói, eu precisava de algo mais emocionante
Bom, bom, bi, dom, bi, dum, bum, bay
Vou retribuir o favor rapidinho (sim, sim)
Eu não brinco de pega-pega, vadia, já passei disso (uma vez)
Nos não fodemos com mentiras (duas vezes), nós não dizemos adeus (woo)
Só seguimos em frente, tipo ai, ai, ai (woo)
Vou retribuir o favor rapidinho (yeah, yeah)
Eu não brinco de pega-pega, vadia, já passei disso (uma vez)
Nos não fodemos com mentiras (duas vezes), nós não dizemos adeus (woo)
Nós apenas seguimos em frente, tipo aye, aye, aye (woo)
Por que os homens são ótimos até precisarem ser ótimos? (Até precisarem ser ótimos?)
Não me mande mensagem, fale direto na minha cara (fale direto na minha cara)
Minha melhor amiga me fez sentar numa cadeira de salão (numa cadeira de salão)
Passou shampoo, te tirou da minha cabeça
Fotos novas com uma iluminação bombástica (iluminação bombástica)
Tenho um novo homem do time Minnesota Vikings (time Minnesota Vikings)
A verdade dói, eu precisava de algo mais emocionante
Bom, bom, bi, dom, bi, dum, bum, bay
Com iluminação fenomenal
Time Minnesota Vikings
Ae, é, sim, é, é
Alex
sis finally getting the recognition she deserves, I'm so happy for her. 😍
Hanna Lakew
yasss
Coco. loco
@Virus Of Cyrus yyour joking right
Kimberly H
The first normal comment
The Manbehindtheslaguther
Hey to all the bitches who are leaving hate comments we don’t need more scumbags and assholes like you y’all don’t deserve likes or subscribers you deserve a day or hell even a year in boot camp
LouiseQ
@Hannah Coleman l00lll0
Jessica Blackburn
I love how she rocks her body and isn't afraid to show it off such an inspirationn keep on rocking it lizzo😁👍
J R
I do still hope that she loses weight,though because there isn't anything great about being overweight. People came after the fitness trainer Jillian Michaels when she criticized Lizzo but I agree with Michaels,I don't think that she was criticizing Lizzo to be mean or malicious,I think that she actually cares about Lizzo and would like to see her be healthy(just as I do,too).
When people say how empowering it is that she rocks her body like that,it's not going to be empowering when she gets diabetes or when she has kidney failure or when she has a heart attack,etc.
And that's not ''fat-shaming'',by the way.I think that there's a world of difference between fat-shaming and actually wanting people to live and to be happy and healthy and I say all of that as someone who was overweight myself and who took all of the necessary steps to get back in shape and lose weight.
Games
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=WGE_SMhcAdo
Young Orange
Lizzo inspired me to go all in with my music because she was once just like me,
an artist without many listening. And now she’s on top. I believe it will happen for me one day, Im not stopping when it does! ✍🏻