Azealia Banks hasn’t been shied away from expressing her feelings about Beyonce’s new visual album, Lemonade, recently calling it the “Antithesis of what feminism is” on Twitter.
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The controversial rapper, who dropped the mixtape SLAY Z mixtape several weeks back, continued bashing Bey on social media Saturday (April 30), tweeting, “She’s not an artist, she’s a poacher” in response to praise of Lemonade by Atlantic writer Ta-Nehisi Coates.
@tanehisicoates Don’t think for a second that beyonce was intelligent enough to come up with any of those ideas on her own.
— BRUJA DEL BLOQUE (@AZEALIABANKS) May 1, 2016
“Don’t think for a second that beyonce was intelligent enough to come up with any of those ideas on her own,” Banks wrote. “She takes food out of darker skinned women’s mouths & pretends to be inspired.”
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Following the release of Lemonade in late April, the rapper targeted what she viewed as Beyonce’s perpetuation of “that sad black female sufferance.” She also labeled Beyonce a “thief” and a “poacher.”
See Banks’ recent tweets below.
@tanehisicoates Don’t think for a second that beyonce was intelligent enough to come up with any of those ideas on her own.
— BRUJA DEL BLOQUE (@AZEALIABANKS) May 1, 2016
@tanehisicoates She’s not an artist, she’s a poacher. she takes food out of darker skinned women’s mouths & pretends to be inspired.
— BRUJA DEL BLOQUE (@AZEALIABANKS) May 1, 2016
@tanehisicoates Beyonce spent her entire career purposefully avoiding “blackness” but now that it’s a trend she’s trying to capitalize on it
— BRUJA DEL BLOQUE (@AZEALIABANKS) May 1, 2016
No, you’re drinking the Roc Nation Concubine juice… those two women are not artists, they’re just THERE. https://t.co/93G8Y52MFb
— BRUJA DEL BLOQUE (@AZEALIABANKS) May 1, 2016