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Last updated on December 3, 2024.
Bleta Rexha, known professionally as Bebe Rexha, is an American pop singer and songwriter. After signing with Warner Records in 2013, Rexha received songwriting credits on Eminem's single "The Monster" and has also contributed songwriting to songs recorded by Shinee, Selena Gomez, and Nick Jonas. Rexha released her debut extended play in 2015, I Don't Wanna Grow Up, which saw the moderate commercial success of the singles "I Can't Stop Drinking About You" and "I'm Gonna Show You Crazy".
I have a lot of respect for Eminem and Rihanna. They are both very real in their music.
We don't wake up happy and looking absolutely perfect and feeling amazing every day, you know? We're only human. So I think, with me, I'm not really scared to let people see that - because it's real.
Nicki Minaj is a very strong woman who knows exactly what she wants. As an artist, I understand her, and I could see how she could be misunderstood by a lot of people, but she is really passionate about her art, and that's something I really admire about her.
Music changes so fast, and we're in a singles market.
You get to the point where you're like, 'I'm just doing me, and if people don't like it, then it is what it is.'
I never wanted to take the easy way, and I was always willing to hustle.
I'm very obsessed with not being perfect.
I turned sadness into an anthem for not letting anything or anyone slow you down.
I think what 'The Monster' means to me is I find it really hard - like a lot of other people in the world - to really be OK in my own skin. It was a message to myself saying, 'It's OK that you're not perfect.' I'm gonna learn to love myself and accept myself, even though I'm a little crazy.
I bought these pink sticker things... and I would write things on them, and I wrote, 'I will write an international smash,' and shortly after, it was when we did 'Monster,' and it was an international smash.
I've had situations where producers would be like, 'Could you meet me? Take the train; don't tell your parents.'
I was a Versace perfume girl at Saks Fifth Avenue, and Rihanna actually came up to the counter and asked for something. And she wouldn't even take her sunglasses off! She was so mean to me. Not mean, but, like, guarded. I don't blame her, though.
In the beginning, I found it hard to give my songs away, but now I've realised it's exciting, and it's only making me better.
There's nothing mathematical to my writing. It's a feeling.
My music is a little dark, and my lyrics are a little darker. Every day, I'm fighting towards the light.
My ideal night would probably be a dope outfit, people that I love around me. Go to get some dinner, have some amazing food. Maybe sushi or Italian: I love both.
I'm not one to be like, 'What is everybody doing? Let me do that!' I just do what I want.
I had a moment where I was like, 'I'm so tired of waiting for other people to accept me.'
I got so excited about it. I was like, 'Yes! I won a Grammy!' And then my manager was like, 'No, you did not win a Grammy. You were part of a song that won a Grammy. Rihanna won a Grammy.'
I view myself as a male artist.
We don't walk around wearing candy stuff all day or colorful stuff. It's like, I walk around wearing black.
It's one thing if you write a song and somebody else sings it because you give the OK. But if your voice is on something and you don't get the credit, it's kind of hard.
If you can't find dry shampoo, baby powder is great.
I just want to be a little more real. Maybe I'm a little bit darker than others.
I just want to be myself and be real and be funny.
Life is hard. It is. And it's like, I don't want anybody feeling any pain.
I have never spoken to Eminem. I've never even spoken to him once.
I love what TLC did with the baggy pants. I love a lot of throwbacks.
One of my biggest inspirations was Alanis Morissette's 'Jagged Little Pill.'
When I first was a part of 'The Monster,' I really wanted to put it out under my name, but no record label thought it was good enough - until Eminem liked it.
I think that the music industry is such an interesting place, and there are so many situations that people don't know about.
I don't judge people on their personal lives.
I'm definitely inspired by old hip-hop.
I just respect Kanye as an artist.
I think what people get confused about is that they want to label me as this EDM girl, but a lot of this stuff is genre-less.
I just want us to all have a good time and to party and enjoy this life, because it's too short. It's too short.
I want to be Kanye and do what he does musically. I'm very fearless.
It might crush a lot of people, but I've never been in the room with an artist that I've written a song for.
I remember starting out and covering songs.
We write the song, then it gets played for the artist, and they somehow fall in love with it and go back in and make it their own.
Nothing really scares me anymore.
I will always, forever, write songs, and wherever they're meant to be is where they'll be.
I want people to be happy.
I played the trumpet for nine years, and then I joined the choir after that, and then I was in musicals in high school.
If you're in a dark place, you're there for a reason. And the only way to get through to those kids or to other people going through the same thing is really to meet them in that dark place and then slowly bring them to the light.
What you start learning is that to get over a breakup, you kind of have to live through the emotions and not run away from it because then it lasts longer.
I want to release six songs, let people listen to those, let them chill for a second, do a tour, release another six songs, chill for a second and then take my favorite four, put them on the album, and add some more.
Sometimes it gets a little too bubblegum for me, but what I do love about KPop videos is their attention to detail, and their choreography and dancing are always spot-on.
I want to show every part of me and every color of me. And I think, growing up Albanian, I wanted to bring that to light.
I'm very tomboy, and I'm inspired by hip hop artists.
You need to know when to surrender the album.
Donatella Versace has been a renegade. Just an incredible, artistic person.
It's tough hearing your voice on the radio, on a chorus, and knowing that people think it's another artist.
The most important thing to me is that it's all really raw.
I try to photobomb as much as possible.
I'm proud of my work and how far I've come, and I'm proud of the way that I did it.
I rolled up my sleeves and said, 'I want to make a mark on this world.'
I was the girl that didn't go to prom or my graduation because I was too busy working with producers and making music.
My favorite artists are Kanye West, Jay Z, the Fugees, Lauryn Hill, Destiny's Child.
We're fighting to be ourselves in a world that's trying to make us like everyone else.