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Lizzo Gets Real About Her New Mixtape
Lizzo is all smiles thanks to hip-hop. The rapper-turned-pop star returns to her hip-hop roots with the new mixtape My Face Hurts From Smiling. Featuring guest appearances from Doja Cat and SZA, the tape finds Lizzo rapping and having fun doing so. Just in time for the summer.
Last Wednesday (June 25), during the week of the project's release, Lizzo sat down with XXL to talk about what got her back in her rap bag, where the title came from and being inspired by Kendrick Lamar.
"It was just a moment that happened in the studio," Lizzo says of how she came up with the name. "I was going to call this project, Valid Crash Out. I was talking to my friends and they were like, 'This is the first time we've heard you crash out. And it's valid, bi**h.' I was like, woah. Valid Crash Out.
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