Azealia Banks has blasted British pop star Lily Allen for what the provocateur calls random racism towards Beyoncé.
Taking to her Instagram Stories on Saturday (April 6), Banks reposted a story that featured Allen criticizing Cowboy Carter — something Banks, herself, has done — telling her to “sit this one out.”
“Shall we discuss that phone call to me – a few years ago – obviously off your face – crying and sobbing asking me to forgive you for randomly being racist?” she began, referring to the feud that the pair had eleven years ago that concluded with Banks telling Allen that her then-husband, Sam Cooper, “looks like a thumb,” per The Guardian.
She continued: “And I quote, well, I just figured since I’m a white girl and you’re just some Black girl that I could shit on you…”
Banks then proceeded to give what she called a blow-by-blow description of what the conversation between the two entailed.
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Ironically, Azealia Banks herself has frequently criticized Beyoncé, claiming that the ex-Destiny’s Child singer is engaging in “white woman cosplay.”
In a scathing attack posted on her Instagram Story on March 19, the controversial rapper started out by comparing the “Texas Hold ‘Em” singer to a number of recognizable names in pop culture.
“Sis, I live for Whiteyonce Donatella Bianca Bardot DOWN, but I’m kind of ashamed at how [you] switch from Baobab trees and Black Parade to this literal pick me stuff,” she began.
Azealia then implied that Bey went above and beyond for the Dixie Chicks because they were white women, but that the same courtesy would never be extended to her.
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“Like u do lame stuff like bring out some blacklisted white women (Dixie Chicks) at the Country Music Awards. and they would never, ever do the same for you. Ur always sharing ur platform with white women, who are so jealous of you but have such a long history of sabotaging other black careers,” she wrote. “You’re reinforcing the false rhetoric that country music is a post-civil war art form.”
After questioning why Beyoncé would attempt to break into an art form that didn’t make her feel welcomed, Azealia Banks roasted “16 Carriages,” claiming that it “didn’t make any sense.”
“Had you made a great country song … going number one should be the headline without the weird race part,” she concluded. “But like Kelsea Ballerini and Carrie Underwood have better songs than whatever nauseating little Bey on the prairie stuff is going on.”
