The truth about Lizzo

Brut America

Why her flute is named after Beyoncé. How she landed her first singing gig. Whether or not she has Chris Evans' phone number. Lizzo spills the truth.

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00:00No, what the f**k? That's false.

00:03It was Craigslist.

00:04Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha.

00:14Lyrics first, honey.

00:24Actually, it was about that time at first.

00:27I was like, it's about that time,

00:29which is a very like black phrase.

00:33It's like, it's about that time.

00:36It's one of them things that, you know, we just say when

00:40it's bad to clock. It's about that time.

00:42Like, let's try to make that change.

00:44Then from there on, it was like, well, that's the title of the song.

00:52Whoa. Hmm.

00:55False.

00:58I do not have Chris Evans's phone number, but.

01:02I have something better than that.

01:04The reason I'm upset about this one is because I know

01:08I'm not going to be able to marry him.

01:10And honestly, it hurts me to the core because damn Papa, he a rare breed.

01:18True. Her name is Sasha.

01:22Baron Cohen. I'm just kidding.

01:23Her name is Sasha Flute and

01:27Beyonce's alter ego on stage is Sasha Fierce.

01:31And I felt like this double life between being this concert

01:36flautist and being a rapper, especially when I was in college.

01:39I was like, do I go to the Paris Conservatory?

01:42Do I study flute or do I stay up late at night

01:46and perform and rap and do shows?

01:48All the rumors are true.

01:50Yeah, what you heard, that's true.

01:52I brought the flute back out when she started to come out.

01:55She was my alter ego.

01:58But now I get to kind of combine them just like Beyonce did with Sasha Fierce.

02:03And now we are one.

02:04Follow Sasha be fluting.

02:05She does all the giveaways for tickets to shows.

02:19True. Very true.

02:22Because I feel like.

02:27Three years ago, if I had,

02:31you know, to guess who I would be in 2022,

02:35you know, it wouldn't be this person.

02:37It's not what I expected.

02:39I don't think it's what anybody expected,

02:41but I also feel like I deserve to celebrate her.

02:44So I am a completely changed woman.

02:52No, what the that's false.

02:59It was Craigslist.

03:02I saw looking for a singer on Craigslist.

03:06And at the time I was me and my friend at the time,

03:12we were both we were a rap duo.

03:14And I was like, let's just go and do this audition and tell them that we sing.

03:19But when we show up, we'll just rap and they'll fall in love with us.

03:23Who can say no to us?

03:24And my friend fell out with me back then.

03:27And it was just me.

03:28And I was really sad.

03:29But I was like, I'm still going to go to this audition.

03:32And I went and I was like, no one here knows who I am.

03:35No one here knows that I can't sing.

03:38So I'm going to sing.

03:40And I sang and they loved it.

03:42And the rest is history.

03:44I became a singer.

03:47Don't be putting me on the spot like this.

03:51Our band name was Ellipses.

03:56True.

03:57When I was a baby, my name is Melissa and my brother would call me Mijita.

04:03And my auntie Carmen turned that into Yeti.

04:06She said, are you saying Yeti?

04:10And she thought that was the funniest in the world.

04:13And it just kind of turned into its own thing where my nickname was Yeti.

04:18I decided to name my shapewear line after Yeti

04:22in honor of my auntie Carmen, who gave me the name

04:26a beautiful, confident, stylish and sharp woman

04:31who is my favorite person on the planet.

04:37Now, way too many is an opinion, so it can't be true or false.

04:42But I do have a lot of tiny bags.

04:44I have a lot of tiny, itty bitty micro bags.

04:48Where the hell is my wine at?

04:53Oh, God.

04:54I popped onto the scene with that little tiny bag.

04:57I had so much in that bag. Everybody was hating on me.

04:59I had my hairbrush.

05:00I had a lipstick, Doritos Tacos Locos from Taco Bell.

05:04I had so much in that damn little bag.

05:05Y'all was hating on me. It was a magical bag.

05:12True ish, because

05:17I don't think that there's a final step in my self-love journey.

05:21I think like my hair was the final

05:24step in me kind of accepting myself physically

05:29because it's like my rolls, my belly, my ass, my

05:35teeth, my chin,

05:39my arms, all of these things that I was like,

05:44I overcame my hatred for or my dislike of

05:49and I started to love them and appreciate them.

05:51But not my hair.

05:53And I think like on a physical level, my hair, once I embraced my hair,

05:57I was like, I am my final form.

06:09True. I told a lie.

06:13I don't have anything better than Chris Evans phone number.

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