Cardi B and Azealia Banks’ perceived beef just got taken up a notch. After Banks chided the “Bodak Yellow” rapper for her bad grammar and spelling during her Breakfast Club interview on Friday (May 11), Cardi responded to Banks’ comments on Twitter.
Cardi then deleted her Instagram and made her Twitter account private, seemingly fed up with the drama. But before she made her exit, Cardi sent out a barrage of tweets defending herself.
“Why is it that male rappers can speak how they want act how they want but people constantly bash me for it?” she began. “Why do i feel like i have to apologize for being who i am? talking how i talk and being what ya call “Ghetto” wtff. LEAVE ME ALONE!”
Cardi continued, “Every week it seems like i’m in somebody’s mouth. Why was nobody talking about me when i was on love and hip hop? all of a sudden i’m the reason why the world is such a horrible place. i be minding my business i wake up and boom something about Cardi. i don’t get it.”
But she wasn’t done there. The pregnant Cardi continued defending her thick New York accent and broken English while showing love for her fiancé Offset, calling him her “personal pastor.” [apple_news_ad type=”any”]
During the Breakfast Club interview, Banks explained she called Cardi an “illiterate, untalented rat” because she was in shock the bar had been set so low for female rappers. Cardi’s initial response to hearing what Banks said about her found Cardi questioning the Harlem rapper’s approval of Beyoncé and calling Banks out for bleaching her skin.
“Beyoncé? Wasn’t Beyonce the same woman she was talking shit about and dragging all over the media?” she commented. “I’m from the hood I speak how I speak I am how I am. I did not choose to be famous people choose me! People followed me on Instagram and the people gave me a platform to introduce my talent. I never asked to be a example or a role model.
“I don’t want to change my ways because I’m famous that’s why I just mind my business. This is coming from a woman that bleached her skin but want to advocate. GOODBYE. Im not apologizing or killing myself because of who I am.”
Before her social media disappearing act was complete, Cardi made sure to let Banks know the definition of “illiterate” and assured her she could not only read and write but she could also speak two languages.
Read her full tirade below.
But Banks didn’t pray for the downfall of Cardi lol….and I have to admit I love when black woman speak up for black woman….and all she did was speak the truth
Ssssh! Go pee its past ur bedtime
my mom speaks broken english and my dad speaks spanish, how about you learn to speak the fuckin language that ppl in the country you live in speak, you fuckin bitch
With all due respect, Mr. President, her brain capacity doesn’t allow that
aaaaa you just quoted the English she just put up. stay in your lane turtle dick
I don’t like Cardi’s music at all but I can at least appreciate someone coming from nothing and being successful. It’s not even like anyone who speaks down on her is trying to be constructive in their criticisms. At least Banks kind of tried to backtrack or stop but if you have nothing nice to say…
The bias on display here is repugnant… Banks made hard hitting points that are unsurprisingly absent from this article. There are no journalists employed here, but at least we know Cardi’s reps pay that PR bill in full haanh? “weeeeeeeaaak.” – Hannibal Buress
I’m convinced you’re azalea banks
Oh no! You caught me. Now What?
Cardi B networth $4million Azelia maybe $3 million. nuff said
Banks is just salty. Nothing more to the story
Azaelia is a professional hater but listen … even a broken clock is right twice a day.
She told no lies.
Some of the issues raised by Azealia Banks about colorism as it exists in the entertainment industry, including Hip Hop, is no secret: the industry demonstrably prefers light skin over black. As can be seen in most Hip Hop videos, Dark skin Blacks receive only token representation. It is quite possible that if Azealia Banks looked like a Beyoncé or a Rhianna, she would have been much more popular, and perhaps richer too. Those aspects of her comments are quite valid. Where she and I part ways is her demeaning of Cardi B to make these points.
In one of her responses, she spoke about Cardi B’s use of facial contouring to appear attractive. But, why go there? Why bring up the way in which Cardi B speaks or her grammatical inaccuracies as though she should be silent?
In many respects, the media, with the complicity of Hip Hop culture, ensures that Brown skin, Light Skin and even White people are promoted over Dark-skin Blacks with more talent. If Azealia Banks and others are really concerned about who represents Black culture, then they should also look at what is being promoted within Black culture that contributes to these prejudices. Banks must also look at her own complicity in promoting Eurocentric values and ideas of beauty. We should examine the obvious weave hairstyles, skin bleaching and body augmentation that is now a trope in Hip Hop/Rap culture. None of this really encourages the appreciation of Dark-skin.
Highlighting these issues can encourage important discussions. However, attempting to shame someone because of their physical appearance or their lack of verbal dexterity to articulate in the manner of former colonisers, fuels all the wrong things that we should be fighting against.
Wow, a comment worth reading. Thanks for your input
High school shit, ain’t nobody got time to read this bs…
I don’t mean to be that guy, but her grammar still bothers me. *YOU’RE!!!!!!