After initially praising it as “amazing,” Rapper Azalea Banks denounced pop star Beyoncé’s sixth studio album, Lemonade, as “the antithesis of what feminism is.”
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Banks called Beyoncé “stupid” for spending years singing about how she suspects infidelity of her husband Jay-Z.
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Banks claims that Beyoncé is a “thief” and a “poacher” of “art from other black women and pretends it’s hers.”
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Beyoncé’s Lemonade was released Saturday in the form of a full-length visual presentation on HBO. The album conveniently divides 45 minutes of black nationalist feminism and spousal infidelity into 12 songs.
The HBO special opens with an incensed, baseball bat-wielding Beyoncé retaliating against an unfaithful lover. The singer is seen dancing through the streets of New Orleans smashing car windows, driving a monster truck over a row of rusted cars, and taking a bat to a New Orleans Police Department surveillance camera. Roger Friedman of Showbiz 411 isolates that music video, for the song “Hold Up,” noting the lyrics “I’m gonna f*** me up a bitch.”
Lemonade is awash with references to racial politics. The film features the mothers of Michael Brown and Trayvon Martin, which is done in homage to the anti-police Black Lives Matter movement.
Azealia Banks, of course, has had her own publicity-filled month.
On April 3, Banks suggested that Sarah Palin should be gang-raped by a group of black men. Three days later, Banks attacked all white people. “I’m 100% positive that the police killings, cultural appropriation, Trump and Palin etc. represent the contempt that whitey shares for this intangible, uncontrollable new black mind that’s been steeping for a while now,” the New York rapper wrote on her Tumblr.
Banks, who recently released a rap video featuring her dancing on top of a police car, may be using these stunts to help promote her new music.
THE BIG BIG BEAT. @AZEALIABANKS. pic.twitter.com/SWU0t6VU3e
— Azealia Banks Videos (@AzealiaVideos) April 26, 2016
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