Azealia Banks calls Beyoncé a “thief” and Lemonade “anti-feminist”
“Sisters don’t steal, sisters share.”
Despite initially proclaiming it “exactly what pop culture needed“, Azealia Banks has slammed Beyoncé’s Lemonade as “anti-feminist”.
Banks accused Bey of perpetuating the “heartbroken black female narrative” in a series of tweets.
Just six months ago you told every black girl in the industry to "bow down" now you want to stick up for black folk lol
— BRUJA DEL BLOQUE (@AZEALIABANKS) April 25, 2016
She made a song about big noses and hot sauce then put up a tour charging $1300 to ppl she knows damn sure can't afford that
— BRUJA DEL BLOQUE (@AZEALIABANKS) April 25, 2016
And seem as if they came up with all the ideas on their own. THATS when u get the evil eye on you
— BRUJA DEL BLOQUE (@AZEALIABANKS) April 25, 2016
Queens are supposed to lead, they don't step on the spirits of the girls who come after them then to just try and take that same spirit
— BRUJA DEL BLOQUE (@AZEALIABANKS) April 25, 2016
This heartbroken black female narrative you keep trying to push is the Antithesis of what feminism is
— BRUJA DEL BLOQUE (@AZEALIABANKS) April 26, 2016
The ‘212’ rapper criticised Beyoncé’s “stupidity” for staying “crying over a man” and accused her of co-opting artists’ ideas without giving due credit, calling her a “poacher” and a “thief.”
You been singing about this nigga for years and he still playing you. That's not strength that's stupidity
— BRUJA DEL BLOQUE (@AZEALIABANKS) April 26, 2016
And it's not what the national black women's conversation needs right now. More pain more suffering in the face of a man
— BRUJA DEL BLOQUE (@AZEALIABANKS) April 26, 2016
You keep crying over a man and perpetuating that sad black female sufferance and it's Not good for what we're trying to accomplish here
— BRUJA DEL BLOQUE (@AZEALIABANKS) April 26, 2016
Because she's not a "sister" she's a poacher. She's a thief. Sisters don't steal, sisters share. https://t.co/2SkMnUygpz
— BRUJA DEL BLOQUE (@AZEALIABANKS) April 26, 2016
Banks later tweeted that “feminism has nothing to do with black women” and took to Periscope to discuss her position.
LIVE on #Periscope https://t.co/CL2xLE5UgM
— BRUJA DEL BLOQUE (@AZEALIABANKS) April 27, 2016
Yesterday Banks also dropped the video for her new single ‘The Big Big Beat’, which tributes her NYC hometown. Watch that video below.
