Azealia Banks is calling out Lady Gaga for being racist.
The 37-year-old entertainer spoke out on social media on Tuesday (August 1) while she praised Nicki Minaj. Azealia had, at one point, been working on still-unreleased songs “Ratchet” and “Red Flame” with Gaga for the 37-year-old superstar’s 2013 album Artpop.
Azealia took to Instagram Story to celebrate Nicki’s upcoming Pink Friday 2, and in her post, she dragged Lady Gaga and mentioned their alleged conversations from more than a decade ago.
After praising Nicki’s talent and genius, Azealia wrote:
“Lady Gaga was (and hopefully is about to be once more) SO PRESSED THAT THERE WERE BLACK WOMEN IN THE SPACE SHE WAS TAUGHT WAS RESERVED FOR HER.
Lmao sis saw that videophone remix video back and made a decision to never be upstaged by a black woman ever again in her life. LMAO Bey is lowkey laughing at how hard lady gage [sic] is going to seem as effortlessly talented as a true pop star (not a gluten free ace of base/overtly phony rgaybait catchphrase/ never once as hip or cool or versatile as Madonna now disillusioned and back at the whites only water fountain trying to pull a Shazam off and position herself in the minds of a mostly senile and fading consciousness’ of white baby boomers as a Liza Minelli [sic]/d Barbara Streisand tribute act) should be. SHE WAS SO AFRAID OF NICKI NINAJ ITS NOT EVEN FUNNY.”
She had more to say:
“Every few months I get the urge to be messy and leak those texts from 2011. Because they truly show JUST how overtly and unashamedly racist, jealous and insecure she is.
She was SO CONFUSED by me not salivating at the thought of fighting with her very cliche idea of who my competition was lol. But I have lived life and realize how unfortunate it must be to constantly feel so threatened. And I always just wanna blow her spot up for the years and years she pretty much encouraged her young white gay male fanbase and media co-horts to say some of the most intensely racist things to me and about me, simply because she wanted me to diss Nicki on her behalf in effort to try and distract the public from yet another new intimidatingly cutting edge black girl who essentially made arguably one of the coolest songs in the history of recorded music.
But sis ain’t really eat it since 2011. Nicki is poised for a very strong comeback and Azealia is still making the coolest music across all gender and genre. I really do appreciate the ability to and feel blessed to still be making music from a place of TRUE inspiration.. And I’m more proud of the desire I have to keep evolving thru music despite everything.”
She added:
“Plus sis is like so late and out of touch the music snob in me won’t let my desire to be messy and petty predictably be used to further the false narratives created to paint Azealia Banks as anything other than the multi-generational arts and culture influence she is.
Cause I truly am STILL THAT GIRL. Lol I love that for me.”
