Azealia Banks calls Lizzo “millennial mammy” in unprompted Instagram tirade

Lizzo (photograph by Amanda Koellner) and Azealia Banks (photograph by Michael Zonenashvili)

In the event you have been pondering it’s been a minute since Azealia Banks stated one thing batsh*t silly, effectively right here we’re. The incendiary Harlem rapper has gone after Lizzo for no good purpose in a since-deleted Instagram remark tirade.

Although the supply put up is tough to hint, context clues counsel it was associated to Lizzo nabbing her first Scorching 100 No. 1 single with “Fact Hurts”. As Complicated notes, somebody screengrabbed the feedback earlier than they disappeared. “… This fats lady joke going for thus lengthy is truthfully peak boredom,” wrote Banks. “This track isn’t good, neither is the dumpy fats lady spectacle stay set she does.”

Banks added some asides about Lizzo having precise expertise, however this isn’t the primary time she’s accused the Cuz I Love You star of buying and selling on what she calls “white America’s” “simultaneous lust and disgust for the black feminine physique.” This time, nevertheless, she went quite a lot of steps additional, labeling Lizzo a “millennial mammy” and backhandedly physique shaming her:

“I perceive the physique positivity factor but when it have been that essentially the most vulgar bits of it wouldn’t be broadcast like that lmfao…. think about what the remainder of the world thinks after they see lizzo leaping round in leotards with cellulite … nobody says physique positivity – she seems to be like she is making a idiot of her black self for a white American public. Nothing extra nothing much less.”

In a very baffling flip, whereas she repeatedly used the phrase “disgusting” to explain Lizzo’s picture, she turned to Chicago rapper CupcakKe as a counterpoint. Ya know, CupcakKe, the girl who made a video that featured a white fisherman attempting to catch her with a dildo whereas she wore a skimpy mermaid outfit and her having intercourse with Squidward’s nostril. To be clear, that’s to not say something towards CupcakKe’s persona or music, however for Banks to make use of her for instance of somebody who would possibly “flourish with out the simultaneous lust and disgust phenomenon lizzo incites within the public” is fairly nonsensical.

Elsewhere within the actually epic rant, Azealia Banks took goal at Cardi B and Lil Nas X, lumping them into a bunch of black artists she labeled “lessers.” She wrote, partly,

“They’re actually selecting the worst of the black womens crop to promote America with …I assume they noticed us transferring too quick with it as a result of in case you understand, after beyonce grew to become political in methods they didn’t just like the elite stopped giving her that prime prime spot and began biking out these lessers… giving them beyonce degree accolades white each being no the place close to the extent of black feminine excellence she is.”

(Wait, since when was Beyoncé not the highest prime spot?)

By the tip of it, Banks even managed to rope Adele into her tirade. She stated the “fats, white” pop megastar bought a straightforward go whereas Lizzo “gotta soar round and act silly to get half the eye whereas she has extra expertise than white Adele.” She went on to say, “White individuals actually reward [Adele] for being fats as a result of I actually don’t assume she will sing.” Effectively, there’s a take.

Any factors Banks may need had are mooted by her fixed belittling of Lizzo’s persona and physique — and her dumbfounding logic, in fact. Learn the complete diatribe under.