Twitter has been coming for Billie Eilish since giving her opinion on rap music. Eilish said, There's a difference between lying in a song and writing a story. “Just because the story isn’t real doesn’t mean it can’t be important,” she tells Vogue magazine. “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.” One person on Twitter said, People have been saying that for like 25 years. It was bulls**t then and it’s bulls**t now! Another tweeted, I might have been in grade 6 the first time I heard a white person make this criticism of hip hop. Others accused Eilish of using hip-hop and rap influence for her own style so she shouldn’t criticize the genre.
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