Lizzo's "Truth Hurts" reached No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 on Sept. 3, so we're re-running this July feature that tracks how the rapper's two-year-old song became a runaway chart hit.

Her super-catchy tune, ‘Truth Hurts’, reached number 1 on the Billboard Top 100. There isn’t a human being in the world who can’t at least partly relate to these lyrics.

With a spare black-and-white note on October 23, Lizzo struck back in a public dispute over who, exactly, deserves credit for writing “Truth Hurts,” which had just notched its seventh week at ...

Lizzo’s song “Truth Hurts” didn’t become a #1 hit until it had been out for two years. She released the song on Coconut Oil, a major-label EP that came out in 2017 and didn’t get much ...