Azealia Banks Calls M.I.A. 'Anti-Black'
Azealia Banks may have reconciled with Iggy Azalea earlier this year, but she’s just launched a new feud with M.I.A.
Taking to Twitter on Tuesday (Aug. 29), Banks went on a racially-charged tirade against her new target. “Mia be lowkey trying to take credit for black culture and the shit is annoying. She’s like clearly quite anti-black,” she tweeted. “I don’t get her points a lot of the time it’s like she came up in hip-hop then wants to be like what about my people but tries to discredit. It’s always like why do you care about blacks and not Indians when blacks took this from my culture. She stay trying to compare struggles. When it’s like honey… just spit your rhyme.”
Mia be lowkey trying to take credit for black culture and the shit is annoying. She's like clearly quite anti-black
— CHEAPYXO (@XoCheapy) August 29, 2017
This comes on the heels of a lengthy M.I.A. post about Diplo on Instagram. “It’s important you don’t see me as a Iil thing diplo discovered because I’m a brown woman,” she wrote. “and this is the first story of a brown female musician who smashed it for the first time . That didn’t happen because I accidentally walked passed diplo.”
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When a Twitter user pointed out that M.I.A. relied on “black sounds like everyone else,” she responded: “I came right after the 90s early 2000s success of Indian riddim in dancehall/hip hop!Missy timberland /big pimpin coolie riddim sounds ta.”
M.I.A. later received criticism for tweeting that the “concept of carnival itself is frm ancient Hindu tradition whr gods r celebrate paraded to sounds of drums/music around the town on floats.” She later corrected this tweet with: “The concept of ‘carnival’ ALSO comes from ancient Indian culture that has sounds of drums and instruments.”
“cultures all have similarities,” she added. “so one can’t dominate the narrative of others.”
Correction- The concept of "carnival " ALSO comes from ancient Indian culture that has sounds of drums and instruments. https://t.co/L5cVOhEEVM
— M.I.A (@MIAuniverse) August 29, 2017
cultures all have similarities.. so one can't dominate the narrative of others
— M.I.A (@MIAuniverse) August 29, 2017
In the midst of all of this, Banks has also announced a new North American tour. The just-announced 18-date trek is scheduled to kick off Oct. 3 in Grand Rapids. From there, the jaunt will hit several locations, including Chicago, Detroit, Toronto, New Orleans, Houston, Phoenix, and Las Vegas, before coming to an end in San Francisco on Oct. 28.
Earlier this year, Banks made headlines when she and Iggy teased a collaboration after squashing their beef. Prior to that, Azealia dropped a couple of new tracks, including “Crown” and “Chi Chi.”
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