It's all fun and games until you start to come for Iggy Azalea's throne on the charts.
Lizzo is only two weeks away from breaking the Australian rapper's record for longest-running No. 1 on the Hot 100 by a female rapper with her breakout hit "Truth Hurts." However, Iggy isn't ready for her 2014 single "Fancy" — which features Charli XCX and held the top spot for seven weeks — to lose the record just yet. So much so, she's even started a Twitter campaign to ensure it doesn't happen.
It all started when Lizzo appeared to throw some shade Iggy's way while encouraging her fans to keep streaming "Truth Hurts."
"YALL... IF WE KEEP THIS UP FOR 2 MORE WEEKS... TRUTH HURTS COULD BE THE LONGEST FEMALE RAP #1 OF ALL TIME..... RIGHT NOW ITS ‘FANCY’ 🤩😱🤯 CAN WE DO IT?!" Lizzo tweeted on Monday (September 30). She then followed up, adding, "*Fancy is a BOP and my homie @charli_xcx is genius on it (STREAM CHARLI- HER NEW ALBUM NOW)."
It didn't take long for Iggy to notice Lizzo's possible shade as she responded in a since-deleted tweet: "I could have SWORN I was the one rapping that song but okay…" The "Boys" rapper then instructed her fans to stream Shawn Mendes and Camila Cabello’s collab “Señorita,” which currently holds No. 2 spot behind "Truth Hurts." Iggy doubled down on her tweet by changing her Twitter name to “IGGY AZALEA stream señorita” and her profile picture to a photo of Camila and Shawn.
However, when a fan suggested that Iggy should clarify if she was being serious or not, for Lizzo's sake, Iggy replied: “Lizzo is A TROLL. Charli is A TROLL. Y’all the only ones who miss the gag every time." The 29-year-old rapper later added, "Trust me. You know when I’m actually dragging someone, Like when I dragged wendy last week. Im mean. This ain’t that, I just saw y’all upset over nothing so I ran with the joke YOU provided me with. It’s all in good fun."
Earlier this month, Iggy dragged Wendy Williams for throwing shade at her during the talk show hosts' infamous “Hot Topics” segment. “Who’s the Australian girl with the fake body?” Wendy asked her audience. Iggy then fired back on Twitter, writing, “Who’s the crack head in the half way house with the gossip show thing?”
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