They’re at it again.
Iggy Azalea and Azealia Banks just took their feud once step further, hurling insults at one another on Twitter after Banks slammed Azalea in a Hot 97 radio interview.
The online spat initially ignited when Banks suggested that her music nemesis only received Grammy nods because she’s white, saying, “That Iggy Azalea shit isn’t better than any fucking black girl that’s rapping today. The Grammys are supposed to be accolades of artistic excellence. Iggy Azalea is not excellent.”
Arguing that Azalea is receiving acclaim for appropriating black culture, Banks continued, “When they give these Grammys out, all it says to white kids is, ‘Oh yeah, you’re great, you’re amazing, you can do whatever you put your mind to.’ And it says to black kids, ‘You don’t have shit. You don’t own shit, not even the shit you created for yourself.’ And it makes me upset.”
After the interview, Azalea took Twitter to defend her music and recent nominations, telling her rival:
Special msg for banks: There are many black artists succeeding in all genres. The reason you haven’t is because of your piss poor attitude.
— IGGY AZALEA (@IGGYAZALEA) December 19, 2014
Your inability to be responsible for your own mistakes, bullying others, the inability to be humble or have self control. It’s YOU!
— IGGY AZALEA (@IGGYAZALEA) December 19, 2014
you created your own unfortunate situation by being a bigot and don’t have the mental capacity to realize yet. Probably never will.
— IGGY AZALEA (@IGGYAZALEA) December 19, 2014
Now! rant, Make it racial! make it political! Make it whatever but I guarantee it won’t make you likable & THATS why ur crying on the radio.
— IGGY AZALEA (@IGGYAZALEA) December 19, 2014
Enjoy continuing to bang your head against that metaphoric brick wall & Savor this attention. I’m the only way you get ANY.
— IGGY AZALEA (@IGGYAZALEA) December 19, 2014
You’re poisonous and I feel genuinely sorry for you because it’s obvious at this point you are a MISERABLE, angry human being. Regards!
— IGGY AZALEA (@IGGYAZALEA) December 19, 2014
However, Banks wasn’t about to back down so easily. Soon after Azalea tweeted her thoughts on the matter, the “212″ rapper fired back at the Australian emcee. Name-calling her “Itchy Areola,” Banks wrote on Twitter:
Dear LordT, I Pray for this Clueless White Girl.
— CATTY NOIR (@AZEALIABANKS) December 19, 2014
None of this will make sense to her until she herself has children with a black man and has to deal with having black children in America
— CATTY NOIR (@AZEALIABANKS) December 19, 2014
The interview was about things way beyond your mental capacity.
— CATTY NOIR (@AZEALIABANKS) December 19, 2014
Itchy Areola, you are so stupid and selfish to make any of this about yourself in particular,
— CATTY NOIR (@AZEALIABANKS) December 19, 2014
My tears had absolutely nothing to with you and everything to do with society and the media in general.
— CATTY NOIR (@AZEALIABANKS) December 19, 2014
You have absolutely no place to comment.
— CATTY NOIR (@AZEALIABANKS) December 19, 2014
This heated Twitter exchanged came just weeks after Banks called out Azalea for essentially not caring about black issues while cities around the U.S. were calling for justice for the deaths of Michael Brown and Eric Garner. At the time, Azalea accused Banks of using real world issues “as an excuse to promote fan battles.”
“Make sure you do something to let YOUR government know how you feel when something is unjust., not JUST your followers on twitter…” Azalea wrote. “Make sure you sign petitions, hit the streets and protest or donate to groups helping to support and rebuild the community too.”
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