Missy Elliott went to Twitter on Thursday to respond to the criticism she faced for acquiring royalties from Bad Bunny’s hit song “Safaera.” The drama started when Puerto Rican artist Jowell, one of the songwriters for “Safaera,” commented about the royalties he earned for his work on the track, which included samples from Missy’s “Get Ur Freak On.” Speaking up in an interview, Jowell said his royalties for “Safaera” dropped from between 15%-30% to just 1% after Bad Bunny and the writers were accused of using unauthorized samples.

According to Billboard, the interview led to people bashing Missy, saying she doesn’t deserve her cut of the royalties. An Ariana Grande fan page then called out Jowell on Twitter, saying the singer’s interview incited unwarranted hate against Missy.

“Thank you for all the hate your interview is bringing Missy!” the fan page wrote, according to Billboard. “Had you explained that there was 6 samples and 15 writers maybe they wouldn’t all be attacking Missy for no reason because she took ‘everything.'”

Jowell responded to the critcism.

“F**k that! Let them enjoy their money,” he wrote. “It’s not you and me enjoying it right? Let them be happy and talk about something else. Missy don’t even care. Why would you?”

Missy refused to let the comment slide without clearing her name.

“@jowell1 sadly you mislead all these people to make them think I have 99%,” she wrote on Twitter. “Now I don’t talk business on line because that’s messy but now we are here I have 25% and there is 6 other samples & 15 other writers on this one song. They got percentage also…”

The Reggaeton artist, who is part of the Jowell & Randy duo, responded to Missy to clarify his comment in the interview.

“Missy, something got lost in translation cuz i never said u take 99% that’s impossible there are a whole bunch of other peoples in there,” he wrote. “I’m cool with my 1% . Excuse me , Nothing but love from Puerto Rico to you. We are both in business. Let’s chill and enjoy what we have. Peace.”

The two artists decided to make peace in the end.

“I’m glad that you now mention that there are many other samples/writers on this track that got their percentages that you hadn’t named,” Missy wrote. “We both in the music business & know how we must clear someone else’s work much love from VA#757.”

Jowell also appears to be interested in a partnership with Missy.

“We should do something from scratch together, we’ve always admire you,” he wrote. “My peoples down in PR  love how you reply my tweets  All Love Miss.” 

According to Madame Noire, Bad Bunny faced trouble after releasing “Safaera” without getting proper clearances for the samples he used. Missy, one of several artists who learned that her song was used without permission, filed a lawsuit against Bad Bunny and other authors of the song, including Jowell & Randy.

During his recent interview with Molsuco TV, Jowell said the artists negotiated with Missy after she asked for millions of dollars in compensation for sampling her song. Speaking in Spanish, Jowell said the songwriters’ royalties dropped down to 1% after the negotiation.

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