Lizzo on people saying she writes music for white people: "I feel like it challenges my identity and who I am"

While appearing on The Howard Stern Show recently, Stern asked Lizzo about her thoughts on people saying she writes music for white people, which was mentioned in her recent HBO documentary, Love, Lizzo, and Lizzo responded by saying those comments challenge "my identity and who I am."

Lizzo told Stern, "[It is] very hurtful only because I am a Black woman. I feel like it challenges my identity and who I am. It diminishes that, which I think is really hurtful. And on the other end, I’m making funky, soulful, feel-good music that is so similar to a lot of Black music that was made for Black people in the ’70s and ’80s."

"Then, on top of that, my message is literally for everybody and anybody," Lizzo continued. "And I don’t try to gatekeep my message from people. So, all three of those things from me, and I’m like, you don’t even get me at all. I feel like a lot of people truthfully don’t get me, which is why I wanted to do the documentary. I feel like y’all don’t get me. Y’all don’t know where I came from. And now, I don’t want to answer no more questions about this shit. I just want to show the world who I am."