Billie Eilish made history at the 2020 Grammy Awards, but in a recent interview with Vogue, she has made some statements about the current state of rap.

In a recent interview Vogue magazine published Feb. 3, the Grammy Award-winning artist accused a majority of current rappers of lying in their music. She says in the interview that there is a clear difference between writing a story and making up the truth, insisting that she doesn’t ever use braggadocios language in her songs to invent any sort of image for herself.

“Just because the story isn’t real doesn’t mean it can’t be important,” she said. “There’s a difference between lying in a song and writing a story. There are tons of songs where people are just lying. There’s a lot of that in rap right now, from people that I know who rap. It’s like, ‘I got my AK-47, and I’m fuckin’,’ and I’m like, what? You don’t have a gun. ‘And all my bitches…’ I’m like, which bitches? That’s posturing, and that’s not what I’m doing.”

Of course, as with every story, the internet decided to chime in with their thoughts and opinions.

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Although the realm of social media may believe this means Billie suddenly hates hip-hop, in an interview with XXL for the 2019 XXL Freshman issue last summer, the Grammy Award winner spoke on the appeal of the late XXXTentacion’s music and the idea that it should have been more appreciated while he was alive.

“I think it’s kind of unfair when something gets more popular after someone passes,” she said at the time. “I remember in the midst of it, at the beginning, when I found him on SoundCloud. I had no idea who he was or anything about his backstory at all. I barely knew what he looked like. I just messed with what he was creating because it wasn’t something I had heard before. It was a mix between, you know, all types of shit. And that was without me having any knowledge of anything in his life: who he was, who he knew, anything at all.”

She continued: “I think that’s when you know that [the music is] real to you because you don’t know anything about [the artist]. I think that’s the same with people. You know, if you just vibe with a person without seeing their Instagram or knowing who they are or whatever, that’s like the most raw I think you can get. I don’t know, I think it’s still popular because he was a complete tortured genius.”

Watch the video for ‘you should see me in a crown’ by Billie Eilish below.

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