Billie Eilish has responded to Lil Yachty’s explicit lyrics about her body that are included in Drake’s song “Another Late Night.”
The twenty-six-year-old rapper Lil Yachty (actual name Miles Parks McCollum) is featured on the twenty-first song of his most recent album, For All the Dogs. Drake criticizes the “weirdos” in the song who make fun of his relationship with Millie Bobby Brown, star of Stranger Things.
Halfway through the track, Lil Yachty jumps in, rapping: “She had big tits like Billie Eilish but she couldn’t sing (Drip).”
Listeners criticized Lil Yachty’s comment after the album’s October release, labeling his allusion to the “Ocean Eyes” singer as “crude.”
But in a recent interview with Variety, Eilish, 21, who has been open about her battles with body image, had an unexpected reaction when asked if the lyrics bothered her.
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“I think it’s fun!” she said. “I’m flattered! Yachty is my friend. Drake is my friend. It’s a joke. I do have big tits. I love it.”
The vocalist of “Ocean Eyes” is well-known for dressing androgynous and large, and she has publicly acknowledged that she did this to stop others from making comments on her appearance. She told the site that she “didn’t want people to have access to my body, even visually,” clarifying that she wasn’t “trying to have people not sexualize me.”
“I have big boobs. I’ve had big boobs since I was nine years old, and that’s just the way I am. That’s how I look,” she said.
In 2019, a photo of Eilish – who was 17 at the time – wearing a tank top led to an onslaught of comments about her body.
Eilish told Variety: “You wear something that’s at all revealing, and everyone’s like, ‘Oh, but you didn’t want people to sexualise you?’
