Lizzo fights back on ‘Truth Hurts’ claim

After finally breaking her silence on a songwriting dispute surrounding her summer smash Truth Hurts, Lizzo has filed a lawsuit against the Raisen brothers, the LA-based songwriters who claim they deserve credit on the track.

The R‘n’B star and rapper took to Twitter last week to respond to Justin and Jeremiah Raisen’s claim that Truth Hurts uses material from Healthy, a 2017 tune they co-wrote with Lizzo. She says the brothers contributed nothing to Truth Hurts or its most famous lyric, which is central to the conflict.

Lizzo’s suit urges the court to declare that the Raisens have “no ownership rights in” or “right to any sums of money” made from Truth Hurts; the singer is also suing the pair for harassment.

“Hey y’all ... as I’ve shared before, in 2017, while working on a demo, I saw a meme that resonated with me, a meme that made me feel like 100 per cent that [expletive],” Lizzo said in a statement posted on Twitter. “I sang that line in the demo, and I later used the line in Truth Hurts.

“The men who now claim a piece of Truth Hurts did not help me write any part of the song,” she continued. “They had nothing to do with the line or how I chose to sing it. There was no one in the room when I wrote Truth Hurts’ except me, Ricky Reed, and my tears.”

“The men” in question were not happy with Lizzo’s Twitter statement. The Raisen brothers expressed their disappointment with her remarks, particularly the way she referred to Healthy asa demo and didn’t mention either of them by name.

“It’s not in line with what she stands for and preaches for and is preaching about,” Justin Raisen said by phone. — Los Angeles Times