Fans had been calling for Azealia Banks to offer her opinion on the vicious Nicki Minaj and Megan Thee Stallion feud sweeping the rap recreation.
After initially believing she was going to sit down this one out, the “212” rapper delivered, to the tune of 30 posts on her Instagram Story early Thursday (Feb. 1), weighing in on the meat and even dragging Jay-Z into the combination.
“Initially I used to be simply going to remain out of this as a result of it’s one other day, one other rap beef — who actually cares? However I believe there’s some attention-grabbing elements to this that everybody’s lacking. This isn’t about Meg [collaborating] with Cardi,” Banks started. “That is about Jay-Z. … Jay-Z has this fashion of presenting himself within the tradition as a Daddy Warbucks sort of determine.”
The Harlem native hypothesized {that a} majority of feminine rappers lack a father determine and look to Jay for that type of validation and steerage.
“Whenever you actually dig down deep into it, Nicki be sweating Jay in a distinct sort of manner,” she continued. “Low-key, she be on his di–. I’m actually good at studying physique language and I may see within the ‘Feeling Myself’ video, Beyoncé’s kinda like laughing at her.”
Banks, who has clashed with Minaj previously, believes that Nicki finally wished a co-sign from Jay and felt dissed when Hov threw his assist behind Meg and introduced her to Roc Nation.
“Jay-Z has kinda positioned himself on this manner the place virtually each sort of feminine city artist feels she wants his approval of types,” Banks mentioned. “I may simply low-key really feel she’s felt slighted by Jay. Simply by his affiliation with Meek Mill. However on the similar time, Nicki desires to wiggle her manner in dangerous. That’s what this beef is about. She desires to be a Roc Nation woman so f—ing dangerous.”
She continued: “It’s been years since Jay-Z publicly co-signed any feminine rapper, and the truth that it’s Megan — it might be anybody — the actual fact some feminine rapper that’s not Nicki bought Jay-Z’s public co-sign makes Nicki jealous. … And I’m actually not attempting to diss Meg. She’s not a typical Roc Nation woman. She’s nonetheless ham hocks and hushpuppies.”
Additional into the prolonged rant, Banks poked at Nicki for her monetary state of affairs and alleged points together with her butt implants.
“It’s fairly clear that Nicki’s f—ed. That she’s f—ed financially,” AB claimed. “I noticed it when she was frying the can of cream corn within the Teflon pan. I used to be similar to, ‘What within the welfare is going on proper now?’ … You possibly can inform by no matter retains taking place with Nicki’s butt that she’s f—ed proper now. As a result of there’s one thing very f—ing mistaken with the butt proper now. I do know that the surgical procedure to get that out of there’s a fairly penny.”
Megan Thee Stallion lit the fuse when she jabbed Nicki and her husband Kenneth Petty — who’s a convicted sexual predator — on her fiery “Hiss” observe final Friday (Jan. 26).
Minaj didn’t waste any time attacking Meg on social media for quite a lot of issues, starting from her late mom to her rapping means in addition to the Tory Lanez 2020 taking pictures.
The Younger Cash rapper packaged these social media threats up and turned them into her “Large Foot” single, which served as a response to the Houston Hottie on Monday (Jan. 29).
Watch a few of Azealia Banks’ Instagram Tales giving her tackle the feud under.