Whereas The 1975‘s Matty Healy thinks the controversy surrounding him and Ice Spice “doesn’t truly matter,” rapper Azealia Banks clearly disagrees.
In a scathing put up to her Instagram Tales on Tuesday (Could 30), Banks tore into Healy after the “Someone Else” singer lashed out at his critics. “Does Matt Healy know that nobody thinks The 1975 makes good music and that he’s a lame poser with a trash cliche band title that really means nothing,” she wrote on her story. “He’s clearly so pressed {that a} black woman who is aware of nothing about him or his music is making extra strikes and extra money than him.”
Banks continued, calling Healy an “outrageous small white opinionated male musician” and questioning his information concerning the business itself. “Does he know that black ladies are extra coveted within the business as a result of there’s BIG BUSINESS in feminine rap,” she wrote. “You’re not a star, nor are you good at no matter this crappy a– mid-2000’s indie pitchfork darling fantasy you’re making an attempt to promote. Ice Spice has MILES extra originality than you’ll ever.”
The controversy first began again in February when Healy was a visitor on a since-removed episode of The Adam Friedland Present and laughed at racist and fatphobic jokes concerning the rapper — together with evaluating her to an “Inuit Spice Lady” and a “chubby Chinese language woman.” Whereas Healy later semi-apologized to Ice Spice throughout a live performance, he known as out those that criticized him on-line for his laughter in a New Yorker profile on Monday (Could 29). “You’re both deluded or you’re, sorry, a liar,” he stated. “You’re both mendacity that you’re harm, otherwise you’re a bit psychological for being harm.”
In a unique put up on her Tales, Banks moved on to addressing Healy’s rumored girlfriend Taylor Swift instantly, claiming she may do higher. “He’s not on the extent of highly effective p— u labored HELLA Arduous to construct,” she wrote. “Ugh this dude is a full incel. You can’t be letting him climb the wealthy white c—-ie mountain, sis.”
Representatives for Healy declined to touch upon the file for this story; Billboard has additionally reached out to representatives for Swift.
