Lizzo Gets Real About New Mixtape, Shows Her Recording Process

July 1, 2025

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Lizzo is all smiles because of hip-hop. The rapper-turned-pop star returns to her hip-hop roots with the brand new mixtape My Face Hurts From Smiling. That includes visitor appearances from Doja Cat and SZA, the tape finds Lizzo rapping and having enjoyable doing so. Simply in time for the summer season.

Final Wednesday (June 25), through the week of the challenge’s launch, Lizzo sat down with XXL to speak about what received her again in her rap bag, the place the title got here from and being impressed by Kendrick Lamar.

“It was only a second that occurred within the studio,” Lizzo says of how she got here up with the title. “I used to be going to name this challenge, Legitimate Crash Out. I used to be speaking to my pals they usually have been like, ‘That is the primary time we have heard you crash out. And it is legitimate, bi**h.’ I used to be like, woah. Legitimate Crash Out.

Lizzo says the mixtape was created in per week in early June. Nevertheless, the vibes within the studio took her in a distinct path through the recording course of.

“Then, like knee-deep by way of the method…I flew my greatest good friend in from Houston,” Lizzo remembers. “We’re doing all these vocals. We’re having a lot enjoyable. And I am identical to, ‘My face hurts from smiling.’ My cheeks have been actually cramping up. That simply encapsulated the entire thing.”

Lizzo additionally drew inspiration from Kendrick Lamar’s latest run for the challenge.

“He at all times creates,” she expresses. “Seeing him creating whereas on a stadium tour was actually inspiring. “I stated, ‘You understand what, Melissa? Get your a*s up and get to work. He is on a stadium tour and he is nonetheless hungry. That’s simply, like, tremendous inspiring to me.”