{"id":491287,"date":"2019-10-15T19:46:00","date_gmt":"2019-10-16T01:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=899673"},"modified":"2019-10-15T19:46:00","modified_gmt":"2019-10-16T01:46:00","slug":"lizzo-faces-plagiarism-claim-over-truth-hurts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/music-news\/lizzo-faces-plagiarism-claim-over-truth-hurts\/","title":{"rendered":"Lizzo Faces Plagiarism Claim Over \u2018Truth Hurts\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Lizzo<\/a> is facing a plagiarism claim over her Number One hit \u201cTruth Hurts.\u201d Songwriting brothers Justin and Jeremiah Raisen claim that they were part of an early writing session that produced the memorable line, \u201cI just took a DNA test, turns out I\u2019m 100 percent that bitch.\u201d<\/p>\n

In an Instagram post<\/a> from Tuesday, Justin Raisen claimed that Lizzo, his brother Jeremiah, Jesse Saint John and Yves Rothman penned a tune called \u201cHealthy\u201d in April 2017 while in Raisens\u2019 studio and that the song contained the exact line in question.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe were never contacted about being credited for the use of the parts of \u2018Healthy\u2019 (melody, lyrics, and chords) that appear in \u2018Truth Hurts,’\u201d he wrote on Instagram.<\/p>\n

Lizzo, producer Ricky Reed, producer Tele and Jesse Saint John are listed in the official credits for \u201cTruth Hurts.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cAfter reaching out to Ricky Reed and Lizzo\u2019s team about fixing it, we put the song in dispute in 2017 when it came out,\u201d Raisen continued in his post. \u201cWe\u2019ve tried to sort this out quietly for the last two years, only asking for 5% each but were shutdown every time. Coming forward publicly to family, friends, artists, and colleagues seems to be the only way at this point in relieving some of our emotional distress caused by this.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Reps for Lizzo and the Raisen brothers did not immediately respond to Rolling Stone<\/em>\u2018s requests for comment. In a statement to New York Times<\/em><\/a>, Cynthia S. Arato, a lawyer for Lizzo, denied the Raisens\u2019 claim. \u201cThe Raisens are not writers of \u2018Truth Hurts,’\u201d Arato said in the statement. \u201cThey did not collaborate with Lizzo or anyone else to create this song, and they did not help write any of the material that they now seek profit from, which is why they expressly renounced any claim to the work, in writing, months ago.\u201d<\/p>\n

As New York Times<\/em> reports, the dispute is complicated by the fact that the Raisens\u2019 revoked their claim over \u201cTruth Hurts\u201d via their publisher Kobalt.<\/p>\n

The Raisens are not the only ones who believe they deserve writing credit for \u201cTruth Hurts.\u201d In Raisen\u2019s post, he gave a shout-out to singer Mina Lioness, for tweeting the line<\/a> \u201cI did a DNA test and found out I\u2019m 100% that bitch\u201d in February 2017. \u201cA meme of that came up in our writing session & inspired the lyric and melody we wrote together.\u201d<\/p>\n

In August, Lioness tweeted<\/a> about the issue, writing, \u201cIf she thought I had the autonomy to truly challenge her and assert my rights.. She would have given me my writers credit.\u201d In February 2018, Lioness and Lizzo exchanged tweets<\/a>. \u201cWe didn\u2019t have the same idea, it was my tweet that was taken from Twitter and put into a song,\u201d Lioness wrote, adding, \u201cNow everyone believes those were your words, when in fact they were mine. My creativity, my wit and my comedy.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201c\u2018Truth Hurts\u2019 was written in June FYI\u2014 someone made a meme on IG that said \u2018I\u2019m 100% that bitch\u2019 and we were inspired, I give that meme credit when I talk about making the song,\u201d Lizzo tweeted in response. \u201cI\u2019ve never seen ur viral tweet but I\u2019m glad it exists.\u201d<\/p>\n

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The Truth about \u201cTruth Hurts\u201d On April 11th, 2017, we wrote a song called \u201cHealthy\u201d w\/ Lizzo, Jesse St John, and Yves Rothman at our studio. \u201cI just took a DNA test turns out I\u2019m 100% that bitch\u201d was taken from \u201cHealthy\u201d and used in \u201cTruth Hurts\u201d. We were never contacted about being credited for the use of the parts of \u201cHealthy\u201d (melody, lyrics, and chords) that appear in \u201cTruth Hurts\u201d. After reaching out to Ricky Reed and Lizzo\u2019s team about fixing it, we put the song in dispute in 2017 when it came out. We\u2019ve tried to sort this out quietly for the last two years, only asking for 5% each but were shutdown every time. Coming forward publicly to family, friends, artists, and colleagues seems to be the only way at this point in relieving some of our emotional distress caused by this. The last thing we want to do is throw any negativity toward Lizzo\u2019s momentum and movement as a cultural figure. If we believe in what she\u2019s preaching, believing in ourselves & our own voices is something we thought she\u2019d understand. Shout out to the singer Mina Lioness ( @minalioness ) for tweeting \u201cI just did a DNA test turns out I\u2019m 100% that bitch\u201d. A meme of that came up in our writing session & inspired the lyric and melody we wrote together. If Ricky and Lizzo\u2019s team decide to settle this dispute with us, we would like to share some of the proceeds with Mina for her influence on Healthy. The clip below shows a video & photos from the day we wrote \u201cHealthy\u201d along with the comparisons between the two works. All the Love, Justin & Jeremiah Raisen #lizzo #truthhurts #healthy #billboard<\/a><\/p>\n

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Lizzo is facing a plagiarism claim over her Number One hit \u201cTruth Hurts.\u201d Songwriting brothers Justin and Jeremiah Raisen claim that they were part of an early writing session that produced the memorable line, \u201cI just took a DNA test, turns out I\u2019m 100 percent that bitch.\u201d In an Instagram post from Tuesday, Justin Raisen […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-491287","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-music-news"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-22 01:16:57","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KQZR - The Reel","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491287","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=491287"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491287\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=491287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=491287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=491287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}