Lizzo Reveals She Almost Quit Music After Releasing 'Truth Hurts' In 2017

Lizzo may be on top of her game now, although in the new provide of People, she described her come-up as "a long road." Despite what might have appeared like a sudden rise to fame, the rapper's actually been working on her craft for a painstaking 10 years. And immediately after releasing "Truth Hurts" in 2017 — a song that's currently sitting pretty at No. 6 on the Billboard Hot 100 — she almost put down her microphone (and flute) for good.


"The day I released 'Truth Hurts' was probably one of the darkest days I've had ever in my career," she instructed them magazine. "I remember thinking, 'If I quit music right now, nobody would notice. This is my best song ever, and nobody cares. I was like, 'Fuck it, I'm done.' And also a lot of people rallied; my producer, my publicist and my family member, they were like, 'Just keep going because this is the darkest before the dawn.'"


Turns out, they were right. Immediately after feeling like nobody was interested in the self-love anthem, the song experienced a categorize kind of resurgence almost two years later once it was featured in the popular Netflix rom-com Something Great. "Who would have thunk?" Lizzo mentioned. "What a moment in a movie can do for an artist is crazy. I had everything else: the hard work, the good music, touring — yet then there's that extra-special magic that nobody really understands what it is that can really change your life."


Right now, the attention that Lizzo's been getting for the empowering track only proves what we've already well known to be true — that real success doesn't just happen overnight. Although, in the event you believe in yourself and what you're doing, you'll eventually get there. Despite its 2017 release, it was recently confirmed that "Truth Hurts" will be eligible for Grammys — further evidence of her hard work and patience. Right now the song that made me desire to quit is the song that everyone's falling in love with me for, which is such a testament to journeys: Your darkest day turns into your brightest triumph," she explained.


Still, Lizzo is very open with her fans about the fact that depression is an ongoing struggle, explaining that it's something she's constantly working on. "Reaching out to people once you're depressed is really hard," she told People. "I would shut myself away from companions and family member. So I've Been working on communicating with the people who love me." Back in June, the rapper took to Instagram to mention that she feels 'hopeless' and like there's 'nothing anyone can do about it.'


Fortunately, one of the singer's best coping mechanisms has become day-to-day affirmations, and they've been instrumental in her journey to self-love. "I look in the reflect and mention, 'I love you. You're cute. You could do anything,' she mentioned. "Tell yourself that on your happy days so that you have the strength to tell yourself that on your darker days."