Azealia Banks isn’t here for Nicki Minaj’s sudden interest in cultural appropriation.
In a recent interview, Minaj discussed why she snapped on Miley Cyrus at the 2015 MTV Video Music Awards.
“You’re in videos with black men, and you’re bringing out black women on your stages, but you don’t want to know how black women feel about something that’s so important?” she said in a New York Times Magazine interview.
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Ms. Banks isn’t hearing her though. The “212” rapper called Minaj out via Twitter for not addressing cultural appropriation until she became a “victim.” She also tweeted that Minaj’s argument had nothing to do with race.
Read her tweets below.
I wish Nic would stop trying to turn this Miley thing into a race issue cuz she was mute about cultural approp. until she became "victim"
— azealiabanks (@AZEALIABANKS) October 7, 2015
Plus how u gonna complain about a video with skinny women when ur body is enhanced .. You too were once a skinny woman.
— azealiabanks (@AZEALIABANKS) October 7, 2015
I am a skinny black woman. Not every black woman can afford enhancements so it's not fair to other girls to make it about that.
— azealiabanks (@AZEALIABANKS) October 7, 2015
This isn't about race. if it were she would've said something when the industry was trying to wipe her out with vanilla wife.
— azealiabanks (@AZEALIABANKS) October 7, 2015
Shook hands.
— azealiabanks (@AZEALIABANKS) October 7, 2015
I am a female rapper, I like to stay up on what's happening in my field. Because the field has been boarded up and abandoned for so long.
— azealiabanks (@AZEALIABANKS) October 7, 2015
As much as we want to complain about cultural appropriation from without we still aren't being as heralded as men within hip-hop because ..
— azealiabanks (@AZEALIABANKS) October 7, 2015
We have no pack mentality.
— azealiabanks (@AZEALIABANKS) October 7, 2015
The fact that Lil' Kim was treated the way she was by hip-hop (I am also guilty of being on this bandwagon) is ridiculous to me.
— azealiabanks (@AZEALIABANKS) October 7, 2015
It took me some time and maturity to come to these conclusions but it's truth. There isn't a female rap category anywhere but BET really..
— azealiabanks (@AZEALIABANKS) October 7, 2015
Like why viciously rip off Kim's head and be so cordial and thoughtful about ur dealings with these white chix ?
— azealiabanks (@AZEALIABANKS) October 7, 2015
I may just have to get over the very utopian idea of a female rap sorority cause it ain't happening while capitalism is at play. LOL ?
— azealiabanks (@AZEALIABANKS) October 7, 2015
The Very Basic Times We Have Upon Us.
— azealiabanks (@AZEALIABANKS) October 7, 2015
