It’s no secret that the entertainment industry can be a rough place for women — and pop star Bebe Rexha is ready to call it out.
“I could bring down a BIG chunk of this industry,” she said in a recent post on X. “I AM frustrated. I Have been UNDERMINED. I’ve been so quiet for the longest time.”
She went on, “I haven’t seen the signs even though people constantly are bringing them up and they have been SO OBVIOUS. And when I have spoken up I’ve been silence[d] and PUNISHED by this industry Things must change or I’m telling ALL of my truths. The good the bad and the ugly.”
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Rexha went on to write a series of posts about this promise of speaking out.
“You haven’t even heard 5 percent. You have NO IDEA,” she wrote in one, and, when someone asked what stops her from speaking out, she replied, “THEY PUNISH YOU.”
One fan guessed that Rexha might have been referring to “the time they took [her] name out of Hey Mama.” “My love. That? Compared to all the other stuff you don’t know about? That’s Child’s play,” the pop singer replied.
For context, back in 2015, the singer featured on a song by David Guetta alongside Nicki Minaj and Afrojack, but her name wasn’t listed in the credits. “What ended up happening was that it looked like a lot of names on the title, so they wanted to keep as many low features as possible. That’s what I was told, and it makes sense to me,” said Rexha to Billboard at the time. Rexha now calls this slight “child’s play”.
Rexha later posted another message explaining her feelings around her initial post. “This is not just coming from a place of anger. It’s sadness,” she wrote. “I’m sitting in my hotel room in London Crying my eyes out. I’ve felt hopeless for the longest time. I’ve been walking a lot through this city and meeting fans and they have really ignited something inside of me.”