Bebe Rexha Threatens to ‘Destroy’ Music Industry in Furious Speech: ‘I’ve Been Silenced’

Bebe Rexha has lashed out at the music industry she says has “silenced” and “punished” her.

The 34-year-old singer took to X/Twitter on Tuesday (July 2) to post an angry tirade, writing: “I can destroy a BIG part of this industry. I AM FRUSTRATED. I have been COMPROMIZED. I have been so quiet for a very long time.

“I didn’t see the signs, even though people keep mentioning them and they’re SO OBVIOUS. And when I spoke up, I was silenced and PUNISHED by this industry. Things need to change,” she added, threatening to speak out “all my truths. The good, the bad and the ugly.”

Responding to a comment from a fan who said, “No one should be forgiven for taking your name off of ‘Hey Mama,'” Rexha wrote, “Baby. This? Compared to all the other stuff you don’t know? This is child’s play.”

Rexha was featured on David Guetta’s 2015 hit “Hey Mama” alongside Nicki Minaj and Afrojack; however, she was not initially properly credited. At the time, when she asked to “show herself, they said it would be too many appearances on one song since most EDM songs only have one or two”.

A few months later, after speaking with Guetta and engaging her lawyer, according to USA todayShe was eventually given credit and her name was added to the song’s title.

When asked by another fan what keeps her from speaking out, Rexha replied, “THEY ARE PUNISHING YOU.”

Another X user commented on her original tweet, saying, “Doing it while promoting new single ‘I’m The Drama’ is perfect timing.”

“Marketing? I don’t have the budget for that. I’M SICK OF IT,” she replied.

In a follow-up post, Rexha explained that “it’s not just anger. It’s sadness.”

“I’m sitting in my hotel room in London crying. I’ve been feeling hopeless for a long time. I’ve been walking around the city a lot and meeting fans and they’ve really ignited something in me,” Rexha wrote. “Honestly, you all have given me strength.”

It’s unclear what prompted Rexha to tweet, but it’s not the first time she’s spoken out against the “toxic industry.”

In a 2021 interview Los Angeles TimesThe four-time Grammy-nominated artist said, “As a woman in this industry, I was taught to be competitive and when I wrote that song, that’s what I was going through — comparing myself to everyone, which is very unhealthy,” calling the music industry “the most toxic industry there is.”

Last month, Rexha slammed her former collaborator G-Eazy on Instagram, calling him a “gullible, ungrateful loser.”

“@g_eazy you have my number. Why don’t you text me and ask me yourself, you smug ungrateful loser. You’re lucky people like you again,” she wrote above a screenshot of a group chat in which she was asked if she was interested in filming social content with G-Eazy while in New York.

“Because I could tell you all the shitty things you did and how you treated me after you gave me your one real punch. And by the way, the answer is no. I hope you’re doing well,” Rexha said.

She deleted her Instagram Story shortly after, admitting to X that “someone on my team told me to delete my Instagram Story. I decided to delete it because it seemed very negative and toxic to me.”

“Sometimes trauma can make us react that way, and that period of my life was traumatizing,” she continued. “I’m writing this because I regret deleting it and I want to say that I still stand by what I said.”