Two of Hip Hop’s (and social media’s) most outspoken personalities engaged on Twitter earlier today as Lupe Fiasco and Azealia Banks went head to head about Kendrick Lamar’s recent comments in Billboard magazine.
The beef started when Fiasco came to Kendrick’s defense for his comments. “#BeMoreLikeKendrickLamar” the Chicago rapper tweeted.
Azealia would come in and take a shot at Lupe about his relevance: “@LupeFiasco you still haven’t made a decent song since i was 17,” she tweeted. Lupe then replied pulling by out an old tweet Banks made about him a while back where she admired his flow.
After a little back-and-fourth, Kid Cudi subsequently got involved. He began by subtweeting Lupe saying, “Dear black artists, dont talk down on the black community like you are Gods gift to niggaz everywhere.” Fiasco then went at the Cleveland native telling him to shut up. Kudi didn’t leave that alone and replied by saying, “How about you stop shitting on the people who really cared about your well being when this biz was ripping you apart. Fake ass @KidCudi.”
Azealia Banks recently took a few shots at Kendrick Lamar regarding comments he made in a recent Billboard cover story. Kendrick told the magazine,”What happened to [Michael Brown] should’ve never happened. Never. But when we don’t have respect for ourselves, how do we expect them to respect us? It starts from within. Don’t start with just a rally, don’t start from looting — it starts from within.” Banks would later retaliate by attempting to give K Dot a history lesson.
“Lol do you know about the generational effects of poverty, racism and discrimination?” she wrote. “There are things in society that benefit a select few of us. fine…. But don’t put down the rest by saying they don’t respect themselves.”
View all relevant tweets below:
That was enough for Banks, who then began chatting it up with supermodel Emily Ratajkowski:
For additional Azealia Banks coverage, watch the following DX Daily:
What happened to face to face confrontation in rap? All everyone does now is Twitter beef. Fuckin e-thugs!
🙁 I feel sooo bad, for enjoying this sooo much lol
Azealia Banks hasnt made a decent song since ever.
Damn Lupe was kind of killing home girl sheesh LMAO
Tweeter has ruined hiphop…. all of y’all sound like lil bitches… Put that shit on wax.
damn lupe fiasco just came thru with the ether of the decade, and didnt even say more than 2 words
Azealia Banks, Cudi, J Cole, Childish Gambino = Real N*gga category. Kendrick is kinda on the fence at this point..
*we just
Dude Paul M. your writing sucks man you call yourself a journalist??
‘Lupe then replied pulling by out an old tweet Banks made about him’
‘BY PULLING OUT’
COME ON MAN. PATHETIC. . . SIMPLE EDITING CAN BE DONE BEFORE YOU RUSH TO BE FIRST!!
SHAME ON HIPHOPDX too. . . just makes you guys look amateur
Banks is a troll who’s biggest accomplishment is………I don’t even know. If not for the fame of others, she would have none at all.
White supremacy is an excuse to remain in a slave mindset. The white man has no power or influence over me, as Kendrick and Sir Charles I grew up in a rough hood…late 80s, early 90s and have had numerous encounters with white law enforcement that I did not provoke. But, I’ve never allowed poverty, racism, growing up in a single parent/no parent home hold me back from advancing in life. You’ve got to take responsibility for everything that happens in your life no matter the cause. With this mindset no man or circumstance will hold you back.
Successful people just think differently than the average worker bee in our society and that is why these successful celebrities are being bashed for their opinions on “black issues”, Kendrick, Pharrell, and Charles Barkley don’t have time to be out here making excuses, they’re too busy accomplishing their goals. A mentor of mine said that young black men need to start “participating in life and they’ll be alright”…which includes: going to school, taking care of their children, setting goals, respecting our women, etc.
Embrace this mindset and watch your life change.
Thank GOD for Banks, JCole. Lupe is irrelevant anyway…….. I bet him JAYZ would take J COle’s side but he don’t wanna ruin his endorsement deals. We all know JayZ is VERY pro black.
jay wouldnt say shit bc he would sound like a hyprocite if he doesnt bc he feauted em and went on a 2 stadium tour with him, also has timberlake on like 10 songs and more 2 come
TELL US WHY YOUR MAD 🙂
Banks is wack as fuck
Banks flopped, lupe dropped from kanye to do his own thing. SMH some people so ignant
ether don, you are an idiot or did not read lupe’s tweet if you think he lost to irrelevant bank$ who admitted to stealing his flows
STILL on this black and white shit??? Jeez, get y’all head out of the slave gutter already…only people that still believe in racism still is the unintelligent’s…get your heads on track, quit crying like a bitch because you barely sold an album, find something else out there that you can accomplish in and then maybe the “white supremacy” you always blaming wont seem so fucking racial…you will be thinking, “hmmm, maybe rap wasn’t for me?” “This seems interesting, let me pick this up and TRY IT THE FUCK OUT…” i don’t know how many times i got to say this but, quit blaming white people for you’re failures and blame yourself for being something your not very talented at. Or maybe try harder next time besides throwing something together and call it art, because it’s not…it belongs in the trash ms. Azealia Banks…shut the fuck up already
I don’t really get twitter, but isn’t it Lupe that said, “How about you stop shitting on the people who really cared about your well being when this biz was ripping you apart. Fake ass”?
On another note, Lupe killed Azealia
shut up that loser lupe was just going “huh and what?” like a moron while azaelia was completely disowning and trashing him. you ask me he’s wasteman fuccboi
You’re response to OP shows how stupid you are. Check Lupe’s twitter and you’ll see the difference. Pictures you idiot pictures were attached to each of those one word tweets
Lupe lost you dumb pussy. lol He didn’t even know what to say.
you either didn’t read the tweet or are a f**cking moron if you seriously think lupe lost. azealia disses is about how irrelevant lupe is when shes even MORE irrelevant than him. tell me how that’s losing? idiot lol
more proof how ignorant rappers are..
lupe wasnt letting a female get to him but the second kid cudi spoke up he smacked him down lol. show you what type of dude lupe is. he wont hit a female but he will smack a male down. unlike some of you mfkers. hitting your bitches but skared to fight a man. and some of you who hit both men and women im cool with yall. if you hit your woman as long as you dont back down from a man that’s aiight with me
dumbass bitches, all 3 of them
that makes 4 counting you, dumbass bitch.
Silly bullshit.
Kendrick is right. We blacks don’t even respect ourselves.
Kendrick has disrespectful music that hold down black, like nigg# words in a lot of songs. All crappers use it should lose it. But it’s recorded for life on the web for there kids to see. Kendrick is no role model for blacks.
I think Azealia Banks is trying to get her name out there more. This is a great way of doing it with social media.
Diary of a mad black woman: Dear diary, I first tried to destroy Iggy Azalea but when I failed I then turned my attention to destroying every black male entertainer I could find on twitter, I paid closest attention to the more successful black males, If I can’t destroy Iggy then I will destroy black me for revenge….Goodbye until I find my next Twitter victim, dear diary.
you guys left out a bunch of tweets,
Y’all left out a lot of Lupe’s responses. He killed that bitch with pictures and barely had to say a word. This cunt is just trying to get her name out there more. How you going to call someone else a dickrider when you’ve admitted to biting their rhymes.
They all make valid points…they all suck.
I’m surprised 50 Cent has not chimed in…maybe coz he has no album coming out?
“Lupe then replied pulling by out an old tweet Banks made about him a while back where she admired his flow.”
This is just embarrassing. She’s the female version of Game. Next thing she’s gonna “quit” Twitter once she has enough more-famous rappers mad at her. And then she’s gonna come back, say she’s changed, then be back up to her old tricks within months. She keeps looking like an emotionally unstable idiot in each one of her “beefs.”
Lupe killing her with 1 word responses lol
he also had pictures to go along with them all, dunno why they wont show up on dx
Thats what u call free promo Bruh Bruhh
All this tweeting just makes them all look like immature little kids. At least Lupe is a dope MC though. Kid Cudi been wack, and I’ve never even heard that girl rap. The only time I ever see her is when she taking shots at someone via twitter. Twitter is the wackest thing to ever happen to Hip-Hop. Lupe, get off that shit man. Stop letting these crabs pull you down. Just keep spittin’ that shit they could never fathom. One.
Well the leader of the black race revolution against the white man has turned out to be a mad woman hell bent on destroying every black male.
Azealia Banks is that grenade that the KKK tossed into the black people compound, that is so smart, use a black woman to cause confusion and destruction in the black community.
It’s funny how everyone attacks Kendrick when he raised a pretty valid point. You can’t expect others to respect you if you yourself aren’t even up to that task. Black people are out shooting, killing and robbing each other everyday so how exactly does that demand respect? Look after each other in your community and show solidarity. 2pac was saying this over 20 years ago for goodness sake. I also find it interesting when Azalea Banks brings up feminism in Hip Hop because exactly the same rules apply. You expect male MCs to be 100% respectful while Lil Kim is rapping about deep throating Sprite cans? You’re fucking crazy. Lastly, this white rapper witch hunt is seriously played the fuck out. How is this making a difference? Music can change a lot of attitudes and minds if used correctly yet all MCs seem to want to do is throw tantrums on Twitter. It’s absolutely pathetic. Azealia Banks is doing more damage than good. For every valid point she makes there are several retarded remarks that follow. The fact that nobody has ripped her jugular out on wax is also starting to grate. Lupe trolling her is pretty amusing but I want to hear some real back and forths, not look at illiterate one word answers on Twatter.
Banks talking about Lupe not making a good song since she was 17….I couldn’t even tell you a good feature she’s been on let alone a song she’s done. At least Lupe has arguably a couple classics under his belt already.
Pretty sure the only thing I know Banks for is demanding reparations for slavery on twitter of all places…..way to make an impact girl…do your thing….
who the fuck is this AZEALIA BANKS?? she seems like a fucking hoe! stop posting shit bout her dx she is a nobody! is she the new lord jamar for this site? dx going more down hill!
Azaelia Banks needs to take her meds CONSISTENTLY!
Crazy ass fuck with a twitter account, take that from
her and she is a fuckin nobody!
She will fade out….
You gotta love a bitch whose a bigot to the nth degree yet still for some reason raps over European techno fag beats that only a white person could bear listening to.
Greatest comment of the day.
Fact: If it weren’t for the pseudo-philosophical bullshit she spews about race and the daily whining about Iggy having a career, we would know even less about this irrelevant bitch.
Kid Cudi – Always been wack (nerds and stoners and people who think they have bigger minds that most listen to his wack ass saying nothing on tracks)
Azelia Banks- Please leave the industry already, not one of my friends knows 1 single song of yours and im sure if i asked a million people on the streets most if not all wouldnt even know who the hell you are
Lupe – GOD MC.
does she not know that jay-z executive produced Lupe’s first album. dumb broad.
and nobody knows how old this broad is, how are we supposed to know when she was 17. smh
shes 23 and has admitted to not even liking hip-hop until her late teens yet somehow shes decalred herself the ambassador for hip-hop
What the fuck happened to hip hop culture? None of you is fucking hard or gangsta or “right” — you’re “beefing” on fucking Twitter. Every diss or “point” you try to make has a hashtag on it. Are you joking? I don’t believe how weak shit’s become. I weep for the future of hip hop.
I’d love to see the hip hop community (or even the world) just collectively renounce Twitter and Instagram and all this stupid self-indulgent shit one day. Just go back to the authentic life, the way things used to be. When beef went down in front of each other’s faces, no pussy hashtag shit.
the amanda bynes of hip hop
Homegirl has contributed absolutely NOTHING to this culture and shes running around criticizing people who have like T.I., Lupe Fiasco, Kendrick Lamar, Nicki Minaj, etc.
IM SICK OF ALL THIS SHIT, EVERYBODY WANNA GO AT EVERYBODY ELSE NECK, WHY DONT YALL MUTHAFUCKAS JUST MAKE MUSIC OR SHUT THE FUCK UP
Please pick up Lupe’s latest album