Lizzo appears to have addressed criticism from Nicki Minaj on the alternate edition of her new album, ‘Bitch’.
- READ MORE: Lizzo – ‘Special’ review: joyful superstar uplifts with self-assured, self-empowering bops
The Grammy and Emmy award-winning artist’s third studio album was released yesterday (June 5). Shortly after the project’s arrival, she also shared an alternate version of the album’s title track, which seems to see her taking aim at Minaj.
Lizzo reposted a screenshot of a tweet that Minaj had shared back in February, where she mocked Lizzo’s weight loss and upcoming album.
“Fat Lizzo lost 300 lbs just to sell 300 albums,” Minaj wrote at the time alongside a photo of a Chucky doll. “So now she has loose skin AND a flop album, AND a weird charge. Sheesh.”
Responding yesterday, Lizzo put the audio of the remixed version of the album’s title track over the screenshot, alongside the caption: “Since I’m blocked.”
“Used to be the biggest fan, then I lost weight/Wait, wait, let me fixate,” she raps. “Paid to keep the peace, I don’t even like beef/Crazy thing is you knew me you would like/ I’m praying for our sisters, I want to see us all in our bag.”
Since I’m blocked… pic.twitter.com/sbJnemz0jm
— LIZZO (@lizzo) June 5, 2026
It comes after Lizzo recently hit back at fans accusing her of throwing shade at Taylor Swift, insisting that she’s “never talked shit about any artist”.
In other news, Lizzo has hit out at “racist” and “fatphobic” algorithms for “destroying the music industry” and hampering her album promotion.
‘Bitch’ follows on from 2022’s ‘Special’. In a four-star review of the latter, NME wrote: “Perhaps inevitably, given Lizzo’s overwhelmingly positive message, ‘Special’ is sometimes a bit cheesy. Still, it’s cheesy in a way you won’t want to resist.”
It added: “Lizzo knows exactly who she is as an artist and what she wants to achieve: she’s the bad bitch with an incredible talent for making people feel good.”
Earlier this year, Lizzo revealed that she vowed to remain a virgin until winning a Grammy, and then lost her virginity in 2020 when she won three. She also shared that she did not have her “first kiss” until she was 21.