Azealia Banks blasted Nicki Minaj over social media after Minaj explained why she called out Miley Cyrus during the VMAs.
Minaj attempted to teach Cyrus a lesson about white privilege during her recent interview with The New York Times.
“The fact that you feel upset about me speaking on something that affects black women makes me feel like you have some big balls. You’re in videos with black men, and you’re bringing out black women on your stages, but you don’t want to know how black women feel about something that’s so important? Come on, you can’t want the good without the bad.” Minaj said. “If you want to enjoy our culture and our lifestyle, bond with us, dance with us, have fun with us, twerk with us, rap with us, then you should also want to know what affects us, what is bothering us, what we feel is unfair to us. You shouldn’t not want to know that.”
Banks clearly wasn’t buying Minaj’s remarks on cultural appropriation.
“I wish Nic would stop trying to turn this Miley thing into a race issue cuz she was mute about cultural approp. until she became ‘victim,’” she tweeted.
She then continued, “As much as we want to complain about cultural appropriation from without we still aren’t being as heralded as men within hip-hop because we have no pack mentality.”
Banks also criticized Minaj for her comments on body image. “Plus how u gonna complain about a video with skinny women when ur body is enhanced .. You too were once a skinny woman,” she tweeted. “I am a skinny black woman. Not every black woman can afford enhancements so it’s not fair to other girls to make it about that.”
Finally, she also called women in the hip hop industry out for their treatment of Lil Kim. “The fact that Lil’ Kim was treated the way she was by hip-hop (I am also guilty of being on this bandwagon) is ridiculous to me,” she tweeted. “I may just have to get over the very utopian idea of a female rap sorority cause it ain’t happening while capitalism is at play. LOL.”