Azealia Banks isn’t one to mince phrases, and he or she’s revived a decade-old feud with Lily Allen as she got here to Beyoncé’s protection.
The “212” rapper took to her Instagram Tales over the weekend to name out the British pop star for her criticism of Bey’s Cowboy Carter album, and he or she recalled a play-by-play of an alleged cellphone name between herself and Allen that happened a “few years in the past.”
“Okay @lilyallen you’re going to cease proper there and sit this one out,” Banks wrote over an accompanying Billboard story concerning Allen framing Bey’s nation pivot as “fairly calculated.” Banks additionally introduced up an alleged cellphone dialog between the 2.
“We could focus on that cellphone name to me – a number of years in the past – clearly off your face – crying and sobbing asking me to forgive you for randomly being racist?” she wrote partly.
Billboard has reached out to Allen for remark.
Allen name-dropped Banks on the April 4 episode of her Miss Me? podcast whereas dissecting Beyoncé’s Dolla Parton “Jolene” cowl.
“I learn a remark from Azealia Banks the place she was like, ‘Cease speaking about Jay-Z as if anybody desires to f–ok him,” Allen mentioned, laughing. “Actually, nobody’s even checked out him for about 10 years, chill out.”
Co-host Miquita Oliver then requested Allen if she discovered the Brooklyn rap mogul engaging, and he or she replied, “I imply, I’m drawn to energy, so sure? However perhaps not bodily,” mentioned the singer, who’s married to Stranger Issues star David Harbour. “I don’t need my present husband to get upset, nevertheless it’s not likely the bodily I am going for.”
Allen continued to dig into Beyoncé’s determination to discover a rustic album with Cowboy Carter.
“It’s very bizarre that you simply’d cowl essentially the most profitable songs in that style,” Allen mused. “I simply really feel prefer it’s fairly an attention-grabbing factor to do once you’re like attempting to deal with a brand new style and also you simply select the largest track in that style to cowl. I imply, you do you, Beyoncé, and he or she actually is doing her. Or is she doing Dolly?”
Allen continued: “The entrance cowl is her in a cowboy hat, driving on a horse. She was sporting a blonde wig and a cowboy hat [at the Grammys]. It’s a bit about difficult these establishments which have to date rejected Beyoncé because the icon and establishment she is herself.”
Azealia Banks’ and Lily Allen’s historical past runs deep, as they beforehand feuded in 2013 whereas partaking in a Twitter beef that ended with Banks dissing Allen’s ex-husband Sam Cooper and saying he seemed like a “thumb.”
No matter any critique, Beyoncé galloped to the No. 1 album within the nation — her eighth in her discography — with Cowboy Carter topping the Billboard 200 with 407,000 equal album items earned within the U.S. within the week ending April 4, based on Luminate.