Azealia Banks has been openly critical of Kendrick Lamar ever since he engaged in a high-profile rap beef with Drake, and she has now taken her commentary on the matter one step further.
On Monday (May 20), the New York City rapper took to social media to call out K.Dot for challenging his adversary’s racial credibility with the “euphoria” diss bar: “I even hate when you say the word ‘n-gga.’”
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About the Compton rapper not keeping the same energy with others, she referred to 6ix9ine and wrote: “Sidebar tho…. deadasss…. where was Kendrick when there was a gay Mexican in a rainbow lacefront running around saying nigga?? Lmao. Do Kendrick know he doesn’t have a ‘oh you fancy huh,’ nor a ‘passionfruit,’ or anything but small sneaker rage to give us LOL.”
The 32-year-old then added: “What’s reallllllllllllly behind the beef?? Who got a crush on who?”
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6ix9ine (real name Daniel Hernandez) has a Mexican mother, though his biological father, from whom he is estranged, is Puerto Rican.
What's reallllllllllllly behind the beef?? Who got a crush on who?
— Azealia Banks (@CHEAPYXOMIAMI) May 20, 2024
When the Kendrick/Drake feud climaxed in early May, Banks immediately chose a side while responding to a Billboard social-media post that read “Kendrick’s response was worth the wait.”
“No, it was not,” she wrote. “Kendrick is still 4’9” and wears the same jean size as me. No one on earth cares about the feelings of small, fake gangsta nepo babies.”
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She continued: “@billboard y’all really are paid for. Even the tone and timbre of Kendrick’s voice is an ultimate defeat. Lol stop lying.”
It is worth noting that the above take is in contrast with her comments about the 6 God last year.
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Back in October, soon after the Toronto native clapped back at Joe Budden’s criticism of For All the Dogs, she chimed in to offer her thoughts on the matter.
“Does drake know his nose job and liposuction is not Hip Hop??” she shared on her Instagram Story. “Does drake know that no one who actually understands Hip Hop — a culture born from oppressed, don’t reeeeeeeeallly care about his soft-toothed colonized confused mixed-race facsimile attempts to exhibit the true authenticity of an actual MC?
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“Does drake know his desperate attempts to gangsterize Canadian ‘street life’ is an all encompassing failure in and of it itself?”
She also took aim at Birdman, who was quick to back the “Hotline Bling” hitmaker in said spat.
“Does birdman know how low iq, tacky and how much of a fucking loser he looks threatening joe Budden via the internet,” Azealia Banks wrote in a subsequent IG Story. “Can u just make some more lug and quit threatening people online before you get arrested?”
She continued: “Shit like that really makes the genre look trashy and low budget as hell… and sorry… you’ve kinda just made it so hot that if anything happens to joe Budden it’s certainly getting traced back to you and drake. LOL.
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“Loved ur verse on ‘constantly hating’ but it has been a minute since anyone cared for your music, and drake is redundant as hell. Only weird nepo babies and Eastern European immigrants who wear USS polo association, cool water and media fuck boys actually care for him.”
She concluded: “Honestly, if drakes mother was black he’d probably not be so corny. White mom syndrome is very real.”
