Rubi Rose Admits Using Ghostwriters For Her Music, Clarifies She's Not A Minor In Migos' 'Bad And Boujee' Video

Rubi Rose got candid about her music.

The 26-year-old rapper appeared on Friday's episode of "The Joe Budden Podcast." During the interview, host Joe Budden, a media personality and retired rapper, asked her if she writes the lyrics to her songs, and she said, "No," before admitting that she has ghostwriters.

"People know how to make s**t sound cool, you know?" Rubi said, per XXL. "I definitely have, you know, my writers and people ... Everybody uses writers though, like, realistically. When people say they don't... I don't know, maybe you [Joe Budden] really don't, but literally, I feel like everybody uses writers."

The outlet noted that the use of ghostwriters in hip-hop started as far back as the 1980s, so it is not a rare occurrence in the industry. Some rumors even suggest that even top-level artists have ghostwriters, but they don't admit it publicly.

In a high-profile battle between Drake and Kendrick Lamar, the latter repeatedly brought up the rumors that the Toronto rapper had a team of ghostwriters.

Big Daddy Kane, who penned multiple hits on Biz Markie's 1988 debut album "Goin' Off," previously talked about the secretive nature of musicians working with ghostwriters. He admitted that not everything was shared with the public, including what he worked on with the "Weekend Warrior" artist.

"The Biz thing was something that we kept on the hush," Kane explained when interviewed by author Brian Coleman for his 2007 book "Check the Technique: Liner Notes for Hip-Hop Junkies."

"Anybody that was really into the artwork and reading all the credit could put one and one together and figure it out, but it wasn't something we mentioned back then."

Rapper and ghostwriter Mad Skillz shared his journey to ghostwriting and admitted that it was OK with him not being recognized in public because he felt he didn't need to be "in the front all the time."

"I don't gotta be in the front all the time. That's how it happened for me. But I don't know how a person would get into ghostwriting right now. You can't even really come up to somebody like, 'Yeah, I'm a ghostwriter.' That s**t sounds crazy," he said.

Meanwhile, Rose also mentioned in the same podcast that she was only 16 years old when she appeared in Migos' "Bad and Boujee" video. The revelation received intense backlash because she was a minor.

"[A]ll three of the Migos need to go to jail," one commented.

Another added, "[H]ow is that legal?"

However, Rose later clarified that she calculated her age wrong. She's already 26, and the video was released in 2016, so she was already around 18 at the time.

"I was 18 in bad and boujee video, my bad y'all," Rose wrote on X, formerly Twitter, on Friday to clarify her previous statement.

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