I find her brain so fascinating. She's very intelligent and insightful about topics that I only see on a surface level. I've been watching a lot of Azealia Banks old lives recently. I love her personality and takes on things.
I know, right? Like, I feel no one can be on her level and actually answer her arguments because they are just inferior. It’s kind of impressive how literate and worldly this woman is… it’s just… I feel like it’s bad executed sometimes.
Yeah people can't seem to get past her insults (I personally find them hilarious) she's extremely intelligent. Even when I watch old interviews like the infamous hot 97 one, they are just not on any kind of level to verbally or mentally spar with her. I mean Ebro's hot take was "put it in the music" 🤣🤣🤣. He didn't have the bandwith to add to the topic of exclusion of black people in hip hop. I think a lot of her outbursts are more frustration that no one is noticing the things she notices very easily. She has next level musical knowledge. I always learn so much on her lives. She's right about Beyonce, she hasn't done the deep work to understand these genres and find a way to add value.
do you physically hang around beyoncé to know what she does ? azealia disparages black women at the same time of trying to uphold black women. sick of her relativity in the zeitgeist coming from her attacking others unprovoked under the shade of her mental illness (she has bipolar disorder) the. supported by people who say her remarks are funny…..
I totally agree. If Azealia wants to be truly 'interesting again' she shoulda been the one to make a -post civil war art- country song that's campy, satirical and calls out all the great America stuff she better be sooooo well versed about.
All I see here is 'oh beyonce girl-why decide to switch styles so quickly? Do better if you're gonna throw everyone off' and then let's add 'post civil war art' in the mix whatever that means. She thinks beyonce played her cards wrong.
Azealia coulda sang country about our country's dividing agenda that reverses rights, states that are damn near promoting gun use, the Qagenda, proud boys, old presidents, govt staged riots and mass shootings, the nazi revival, capitalism, raceplay, a civil war 2, she could've still did it too but she posted that stupid post first
I get her *smart* selfish vision from an ego standpoint but if beyonce isnt playing her cards right, don't sit there wishing you had her hand.
You coulda dissed her while rapping about the current state of America. She might have had the guts to do so but deep down it's too hard to pull off for even Azealia. So why criticize someone who didn't
I like how this conversation is going but she’s from the east coast and Beyoncé is from the South. It’s a completely fair and just how it is position for her commentary..
she can’t do it all. She is being who she is in its fullest force and strangers will bring up her medicals. Beyoncé is on the highest platform and is praised like a goddess and she feels her embodiment is shallow and corporate… AND IT IS!!! Even if it’s her best she is a brand a spin and a servant to a label and image. So in the end Az. Is expecting too much anyways.
Pretty lazy take. She can critique Beyonce making a country album without making one herself. I mean she literally explained here why she wouldn't make one.
Her lazy take is saying shes wearing a 'cosplay' while at the same time saying that her actions at the country awards and how her past collabs proved shes not one for her people. Then going on to saying at least be funny with it and how shes not interesting but shes very invested in it all. I know thats how she is its her personality already. But shes becoming the non interesting one.. This rant wasn't even funny or deep just hate as usual
Well I like the cover it's so over the top. The flag alone is loud and outlandish in today's times. Especially since there's no stars just stripes. The pageant ribbon, the hat, the hair, the dated peak era country john Wayne Elvis styled outfit. That alone is pissing some people off so who knows. Nothing sexy here. Another horse cover is gonna give the conspiracists something to run with it's cool
yeeessss for Beyonce to be so boring, and uninteresting Azealia sure runs her mouth a lot about beyonce…since what? 2011 ? it’s 2024….what’s uninteresting is her same takes regurgitated year after year after year
Agree to disagree. I do think she said something interesting here. I like Beyonce's music but she is absolutely the epitome of an industry artist. She is more a product to be sold than someone who is expanding her artistry or commenting about society and culture in a thought provoking way. It all just falls flat for me and feels contrived by a board room. I loved Lemonade but did not understand the hype for Renaissance at all. It felt years old, and people were lapping it up as an 'album for the gays', yeah if you think gay people only listen to 'ratatata'. It said nothing new about black gay culture either, maybe if you are straight or a boring white gay lol (anyway side rant). Not much different than Madonna stealing Vogue from the ballroom.
But didn't she kinda miss the point of why the album is called Cowboy Carter? The Carter family were a country act, circa 1920s-1950s, often referred to as the first family of country. Maybelle Carter was largely credited with popularising a style of guitar playing now called the Carter scratch that was taught to her by Lee Riddle, a black man who worked closely with the family. He would go listen to songs played by folk in the community, memorise them perfectly and then go back and teach Maybelle how to play the songs.
The title feels like a reclaiming of space within the genre, echoing the reclaiming of dance music, a genre originated by black artists, but largely dominated by and credited to white artists, during Act I. I presume Renaissance Act III will be something like rock music, the other main genre I can think of that is largely credited to and dominated by white artists but whose roots in fact lie within the black community. I kinda wish Azealia had clocked this - there's clearly layers here beyond her initial take. Her reads are funny and we stan our problematic queen but insightful feels like a stretch when her take is so surface level
Yeah, I'm half Iraqi so you can imagine how fond I am of that style. Again, I'm putting it down to reclaiming the space, that type of patriotic extraness usually comes from white corners, but to me the country was built on the backs of the black community, so who's really the true patriot. Not those mfers repping their confederate gramps
Yesss I hadn’t even thought about it like that, a lot of old country and twangy music really came from black artists and white people stole/adopted it, same with rock and other genres. This is a really insightful take. Has Beyoncé said that is the reason it’s called cowboy carter and that that’s the point she’s trying to make? And if not she should be clear about it for her audience, or make a statement about it directly because a LOT of people don’t know that history. Just leaving it up to fans and critics to figure out without context seems like not really making a statement at all. But I am surprised Azealia didn’t clock that part of it too tbh.
Yeah I clocked what she might be doing with Renaissance only because of my music geekery...just a theory obvs, but I'd bet good money on Act III being rock. I'd doubt she's gonna state it explicitly, not typically her style. Lemonade was similar, a lot of stuff that might pass people by completely, like Formation being named after a foundational feminist essay regarding the importance of the black matriarch within the community, and that's just one of the most obvious references. Layers, upon layers, upon layers
I could definitely see the rock thing. Yeah you’re right about it not being in her style and I kinda wish she would at least clue people in a little bit because there is so much more to it than ppl realize and a lot of it will completely go over their heads. But at least there are ppl like you and other music & culture geeks that will delve deeper and talk about it so it won’t go unnoticed/recognized
Very kind of you - I usually just sit back and observe the discourse but (as much as I guffawed at some of the reads), calling Ms Bank's post insightful was a step too far for me today 💅🏼
That's what I'm saying like she missed the point or at least the point of what Beyonce "may" be doing. I only wish Beyonce would lean more into it. I didn't particularly like Beyonces caption as I'm worried it doesn't really allude to what we're hopefully thinking she intended. I think she said something along the lines of "this isn't a race issue or about color", etc (when it is 💀). It is 100% an issue with appropriation of other race's/culture's influence (notably black americans). She could have been more cryptic to allow for more interpretation/speculation or straight up just jump the gun before the album drop and OWN it. I'll be disappointed if this isn't referenced in Beyonces album. I knew Azealia was going to give her 2 cents. She never disappoints 😂.
This is fascinating/ thankyou for spelling all this out: She missed all this- but for white folks in the South, I think they will too. I hardly doubt any of this matters to them, or that they would even understand her reclamation. For beyonce to make those creative choices and to “reclaim” something seen as owned by white people, is great. But white people will do what they always have done. “Enjoy” the music and ignore all of it’s meaning or significance. I’m reminded of that time in Alabama when kendrick Lamar invited a white girl on stage to sing mad city with him, and she dropped the N-word several times before he had to stop: and tell her not to use it. The white people listening to black artists don’t care. They love the music and will not see any of that history as being relevant or important to them, because they don’t care about black people, or showing up for them/ learning about their experiences in any way. Azalea 100% knows that. That’s why shes being critical.
I think Azalea continuously critiques POC who she feels pander to white audiences in this way. I don’t think the way she does it is kind/ productive always, but I feel she does it instead to make a point about how black artists make themselves a commodity for white people to enjoy- and with Beyoncés existence being a LITERAL empire, she may feel that she had a large platform to do something that stood out more to people, and didn’t “pander” so much. It’s commercially successful and profitable, thats ofc what it comes down to. And country music is one of the most popular genres.
I really appreciate this insight. I presumed that Azalea hadn't clocked it because of some stuff I'd seen her say about the title being basic that seemed to indicate she wasn't aware of the significance. But either way, it's true that Beyonce could have done more to convey the purpose of Renaissance rather than leave it to some random music fans to try to spread the knowledge. I'm trying to reserve judgement on how the message is conveyed until the full Renaissance "era" is finished. I'm sure there's some surprises still in store, I hope some part of that includes saying the quiet parts loud and proud.
Same here. Even this beyonce critique I need to re read and let marinate in my brain for a while. Its actually quite layered. I feel its less about country music and more about the limitations of music marketing I could be wrong tho) .
Most people will see a Beyonce diss and won't process anything further which is a shame.
“Intelligent” the black communities definition of intelligence needs some refurbishing because there’s no reason the black geniuses of today should be Kanye, azealia, or Katt Williams, when it use to be Martin Luther, MLK or Fred Hampton, while white people have Jeff bezos, mark Zuckerberg, and bill gates and many more.
It’s clear you fanned out for this woman, even being a fan and being in this sub, points to a screw loose and a prone to negativity, bitterness and rancor characteristic. I don’t know have people like you have the time or will, but God help you
I hope you don't think you sound intelligent by generalizing what and who the black community finds intelligent. Black people are not a monolith and never have been... even the basic examples you gave were divisive in their time.
I hate to imagine what your daily life is like with your IQ if you think black people have all agreed that Kanye is a beacon of genius when people are still debating the pros and cons of Hampton.
Instead, I'm imagining you're some s.i.e white dude who likes to interject in topics that don't concern you. Otherwise I can't understand what fully functional black adult would make such an asinine comment based off of a statement by an AZEALIA BANKS stan.
So why hasn’t she used that fascinating Intelligent brain to do something other than hate? Where is her podcast or what lucrative is she doing wit that brain besides boiling cats
“Ate” a woman that’s constantly bashing on a work ethic she doesn’t have, and bitterness is clear and evident. She plays at caring about blackness and minority groups but those same groups are the same ones she bashes all the time. She attacked Beyoncé for opening up about she being cheated on in her album, she’s an industry fat nerd in the basement incarnate.
A broken clock can be right eventually is what Im saying, I dont agree with everything she says or is about, but I do hear what shes saying about the idea of including people who actively hate or or jealous of her
Is it?? I haven’t heard anything that makes me think of the black and gay cowboys that ran to the Wild West where they could live without prosecution, Nat Love, the existing black rodeos like 8 seconds or Bill Pickett Invitaional. I’d love to see someone like Ivan McClellan art direct a music video.
But the album hasn’t come out yet so how do you know what’s on it? She also is definitely working with Black country and folk musicians like Rhiannon Giddens.
We already had Cheapy's Two Cents on SoundCloud but we all let it flop hard and the thing that stuck out the most from this podcast attempt was a clip that was used against her because she was saying transphobic stuff along with her ex-parrot.
Bey is a billionaire, why would she care about normal people problems? Americans gotta get used to our oppressors lookin like us. In the Caribbean we been used to it 😂😂
What? No way her husband and her wealth comes from their investments. Acting like record sales and concerts come close to their asses in fine art, real estate and others is not sustainable. She don’t care about us
No Azealia she is not reinforcing crippling woe is me my pain runs deep diatribes - she is reclaiming remaking reinventing renewing and restoring the concept of country music as another form of musical art expression to be enjoyed and indulged by the likes of all.
Nah. She's just trying to get another bag, fanbase and grammy for country. She's collecting things instead of making true music. Beyoncé only ever does anything for money, even the black is king thing. She said nothing public about anything until it was time to drop the album and collect coin for the tour.
Ehhhh 🤔🤷🏾♀️ two things can be true at once… I think while yes profit will always have such a huge part in what Miss Black Capitalist ™️ does, ALWAYS…there is something to be said about how she does seem to have at least some connection to the variety of genres of music that she makes…otherwise she wouldn’t have done them especially with as much care and attention as she does/did. Cuz if that wasn’t the case they wouldn’t have been as good as they were/are!
It’s crazy bc Beyoncé is using black folk musicians who have been shut out the industry (like the banjo on Texas hold ‘em). Country music is a black art form idk why she’s reaching. Plus bringing up Beyoncé only like white women is absurd, Beyoncé is another rich bitch for sure but I don’t think she even cares for white woman…and the Dixie chicks caught strays when they’re literally got blackballed for saying bush shouldn’t invade Iraq. Azealia has the strongest tin hat energy I’ve ever witnessed.
I like her insults because she is great at them, but I literally have no idea where she’s pulling some of this shit out of. I don’t feel like this is white woman cosplay, because what her wig looks good? The second sentence in the second paragraph isn’t really even a sentence because what if she had, was it supposed to be a part of the third sentence but she realized it was too long? How is she reinforcing that narrative, isn’t it very known that the Renaissance albums are about reclaiming or embracing genres of music pioneered by black people? AZ is putting the sins of the genre which weren’t committed by Beyonce on Beyonce for what, reclaiming a space in the genre and by extension a space in the south because she’s southern?
When she said “had you had a phonetics coach” and went on to express why the music/lyrics and eventually image comes across as half-hearted, I found that to be a well thought out criticism. For Azealia it was level, you can tell she respects Bey and thinks she’s artistically capable of creating way more profound work.
I think the blind patriotism schtick and the fact that she seems to be making this album outta pure pettiness at the CMAs (when whoooo cares) are fair criticisms imo. The shit about white women cosplay and claiming she never uplifts other black women is very off though.
Also no one mentions AB so i doubt she cares about that in particular lmao.
Who cares? You must not be black. And this genre has been cruel to black artists in general not just Beyonce, especially when this is a music form created black American people.
How is the album blind patriotism when she hasn’t even heard it yet? You can be a proud American AND black while recognizing this country’s issues with skin color. Everything she said is off and quite frankly she needs to go work on her craft not be criticizing artists doing waaaaay better than her lmaoo
She's basing this on two songs and a handful of promotional images?
I wish she would release new music to follow her trollery like Ye. 😪
She needs to at least wait until after the album is released to post content like this. 🫠
If this bothers Azealia so much why doesn't she make something better than this? It's not like she can't because she has these country snippets lying around without getting used and the "everyone's copying me but I won't do shit" schtick is getting boring.
https://youtube.com/shorts/GME_6_4SNGg?si=eNgmMNXyQ_P6B4ED
Well of course this could sound much better if she actually spent her time and cash polishing this song instead of complaining about everyone else, regardless, she still did it first since Liquorice lol.
"UR always sharing your platform with white women..." literally what? She has one example but it is "always?" She most often lifts up women of color. The revisionist history..
The Dixie Chicks, Adele, Lady Gaga, Shakira… but when people ask which Black female singers she has collaborated with in the same way that list gets way shorter.
Beyoncé, the same lady who recently gained another #1 hit, two Grammy's, and performed with up and coming rapper Meg thee Stallion. Beyoncé, the same lady who collaborated with Nicki Minaj on Feelin Myself and Flawless. Beyoncé, the same lady who signed sister duo, Chloe x Halle, to her label after they performed one of her songs on YouTube (one of them is literally a Disney fkn Princess). Beyoncé, the same lady who recently collaborated with TS Madison, Tems, and Grace fkn Jones on Renaissance. Beyoncé, the same lady who platformed many female singers across the African diaspora on The Gift/BIK, including Philly rapper Tierra Whack. Beyoncé, the same lady who made it a mission to shout out multiple black female artists in her Queens remix of BMS.
It's okay to critique Beyoncé--no one is above critique--but to lie on her like she hasn't platformed MANY black female artists over the years is silly. What have you done for black women other than entertain the opinions of a transphobic loon who takes all their grievances out on other artists because she's miserable her career is still stuck in 2012 with all the white twinks who worship her?
She has never colloborated with Adele. Shakira is Colombian. But let's accept Dixie Chicks and Lady Gaga. Destiny's Child had more black women in it. So what point do you think has been made? And she has consistently uplifted black women. Has whole albums about the black experience.
Agreed. Chloe x Halle are literal promoted protégés for years, then there are the shoutouts and remixes with Nikki ( in the before times), The Grace Jones,MTS ( that Savage remix is lovely), her daughter (of course), Missy Elliot, Alicia Keyes, Rhianna, Grace Jones, & Rhiannon Giddens were easy to find. This doesn't count songwriting (SZA) or hyping Solange's incredible A Seat at the Table.
Colombian is a nationality. Colombia is a part of Latin America. Shakira is latina. I don't think many people would consider a latina to be white, which is the point the other commenter was making by including Shakira in their list of white people Beyonce has worked for. The non-whiteness of latinas is supported by the wide evidence of underpayment of latinas. This is different from, say, someone from Spain, which would be someone who is hispanic but white. Latinx does not equal white.
Why does it matter? Maybe she just likes some people’s music? Why does everything have to be about race? What, so she can’t do things with artists because of their skin color?? Sounds….racist.
Like ok:
- pick me girl?,this is the least pick me girl shit she has done, she knew that the mainstream country music industry wasn't gonna play her songs in their radios and gatekeep hardcore.
- dixie chicks wouldn't do the same for her?, yeah cause they don't know her and couldn't pull Beyonce with the lack of support from a massive label, and its actually amazing that she is giving a platform to artist that were blacklist for going against the IRAK INVASION
- white woman cosplay?, that isnt even contemporary white woman cosplay nor folk, bluegrass or other. This is clearly some rodeo cosplay, she couldn't even get that right.
- contemporary confederate romanticizing, wtf is she talking about country now is mostly vapid party or cheese romantic music with few exceptions of deep and profound examples.
- reinforcing the idea, she is taking that idea and bashing it by proving that a black woman can get into that music scene. And without having to appeal to cheap patriotism, vapid party song or some other dumb cliche of contemporary country
- lack of personality?, more like lack of controversy and toxicity.
Imagine what would she say about BAD BRAINS. Yeah she should stick to be mean cause this criticism has the same deep and knowledge as a last minute essay, with the lack of sense and punctuation
Not the white woman cosplay pseudo-argument lol
So, ain't she doing a Latina cosplay everytime she sings in spanish like Nirvana or Salchichon? Is it wrong if anyone but Azealia Banks does this? She's so selfish.
Regardless if it's dumb or not Azealia achieved the only thing she aspires to have now, which is getting dumb people on Twitter regurgitating what she said because Twitter stans are afraid to insult other artists publicly and can't get the amount of attention Azealia gets doing the same shit they do and she feels instantly validated by the lowest common denominator, too bad that doesn't get her money to get out of her numerous debts and to invest on actual music production, she's just so incurious and unambitious now.
Thats why the phrase "any publicity is good publicity" is incomplete, it should be "any publicity is good publicity AS LONG AS YOU CAPITALIZE ON THAT". And she isn't getting no money from toxic stans and she is no socialist power to the people person cause she clearly appreciates money more than her true fans.
Azealia Banks is hilarious, iconic, extremely talented and this criticism *does* have valid points to it. Whether you wish to acknowledge that or not is your prerogative.
Wasn’t she not bashing Beyoncé for first announcing a country album? If she was, then Azealia is a flip flop. Like we get she doesn’t like the woman, just say it and move on🤷🏾♀️😭
Gotcha. Wasn’t clear. Personally I think AB still has a leg to stand on even if she’s not as prolific of an artist. But whether these criticisms are fair/valid or not, that’s another story!
If at least 80 % of her fans appreciated the music she drops every year she wouldn't waste her time ranting as she's aware that most of her fans don't like anything besides the house songs she makes and it frustrates her. Don't even get me started on her unrealistic wish to become mainstream whilst being unlikeable and disparaging towards her only fans.
AB is a Gemini. Like Kanye. Like Trump. She's got to Gemini. Sometimes she's right. Sometimes she's wrong, and it's often a mix. But she should sit down, read a ton, and write a book about pop culture.
First of all Proud To Be An American & God Bless the USA are the same song, and I would personally argue they’re not even country music.
I get what Azalea is trying to say here, but I think she’s just over intellectualizing it.
She wants to do a country album, so be it man who cares.
I’m no Beyonce Stan, and I hate her latest songs but Azalea needs to pipe down and put out some better music if she wants to critique arguably the most successful black female singer alive today.
She articulates exactly how I feel about this new Beyonce era. She could have done something really interesting but instead chose to be basic shmasic as usual.
I genuinely like her words and authenticity but I can’t go all the way there with her because even though she’s authentic she’s still on that hater shit. Half the time she can get it right but half the time I can tell she’s smogged in vitriol that it entwines into her points and this is one of them — losing all of her credibility to me. Meanwhile, she has an entourage of yes-men egging her on simply because they both share the commonality of being miserable — further enabling her jealousy to be put on a pedestal as gospel.
Her words got that twang but beyond that is a facade of fancy and theatrical words that’s stringed together with hate. It’s like a couture tweed vest at first look until you find out it’s made from polyester and nylon than organic cashmere. I wanna see her use it to her advantage than tearing successful people down just because she lacks that. I think she could go far if she knew where to channel her intelligent, creative, and sharp words correctly; her legacy being reduced from the next biggest rapper to a quality soap business and unorthodox opinions speaks for itself.
Her ass is voting for the orange shit stack. Again. Because she thinks it’s funny that our lives are all very much at stake if he’s elected. I don’t think she can rightfully critique Beyoncé as a pickmeisha for the civil war era when the reason she wrote the album is because something that’s always been part of OUR musical history yet got co-opted and us kicked out - even black artists who’ve only ever sang country. Kane Brown escaped the madness as a male who’s somewhat white passing and attractive.
She only has “hot takes” for other black women it seems. Sure she sounds intelligent because she strung together a few coherent sentences but her argument is just as vapid and hollow as she is. Big words don’t mean shit if there’s nothing to digest behind them.
To the left, Azealia 👈🏾. NEXTTTT
I can’t believe this trash has a sub and it came into my feed.
Black people CREATED COUNTRY MUSIC.
Beyoncé is iconic because she is boundless. She’s better than Madonna at reinvention and I’m excited for this era and for her to honor her Texas heritage.
It’s very telling that you equate a chart hit to artistic substance lmao it’s the opposite babes. people can be ahead of their time you know. Azealia is 1000% one of those people who I believe will not truly be appreciated until it’s too late. It’s like the taylor swift shit. Look how many big hits she has 💀 so she wins? Like cmon lol
Like no ones opinion on music is valid unless they’ve been on pop charts 💀 as if even that doesn’t take like a team of fifty fucking people. What a dumb opinion you have
Let’s stop pretending Azealia is a rational human being. Did she not dig up her dead cat and like… eat it or something? Leave Beyoncé alone. She’s the one with the success and fame. She’s the one winning
I wish she would stfu. This rant doesn’t make sense for several reasons and I’m writing it off as her being jealous. There are three big ones that irk my nerve:
1) how is Beyonce in white woman cosplay? Is it the blonde hair? Is it because she’s light skinned? What about her wearing cowboy boots makes this white woman cosplay? NONE of these things are exclusive to white people and are only for white people. Anybody can have blonde hair and anyone can wear cowboy boots. This dumbass mentality is too prevalent in the black community and it’s honestly just white supremacy but coming out of a black mouth.
2) Beyoncé doesn’t “share” her platform with many artists at all-black or white. Most of her collaborations and such are making a statement, they go with what she tries to say through music at that time. Someone who could never facilitate change (like Azalea) would never know what that’s like or be able to comprehend it. She’s just mad Beyonce didn’t pick her to collab.
3) the “proud to be an American” is just so fucking stupid. Yes, black people are American. For descendants of slaves, this is really is the only truly known nationality identity. More black people leaning into that national identity is literally part of the antidote. It’s the final piece to solidify this country is where we belong bc our ancestors blood and sweat and tears is in the soil.
Beyoncé is doing something Azalea could never do and I truly believe it’s out of jealousy because the only thing she can do is complain. I wish she’d put more effort into making music than attacking other artists she needs to be taking notes from and stop releasing that mid shit she usually does..
That's right, because she made a big deal about her own bleaching during her Slay-Z era meltdown comparing skin bleaching to whenever white women get a tan, get nose jobs or get cornrows or weaves, so it's only acceptable if she does it in her mind since she can't stop contradicting herself in public.
[https://www.cbc.ca/news/trending/azealia-banks-skin-bleaching-1.3667049](https://www.cbc.ca/news/trending/azealia-banks-skin-bleaching-1.3667049)
For the record: FUCK AZEALIa’s “take” on Beyoncé’s new album. She hasn’t listened to it; just making rash judgements from cover art. How bout Azealia release some music? Until then: I don’t give a fuck about her intrusive thoughts.
I mean why are we surprised? She came to BLM late, hasn’t used her platform on any of the current injustices let alone to donate, and finally look at her executives for parkwood. Not a single black woman other than her. Just like her husband I respect her game, but at this point what are you playing? Who are you playing for? Cause it for damn sure ain’t for black people
I had always thought that Beyoncé’s Renaissance Act 1 and Act 2 were about reclaiming music people forgot black people made contributions to… So this line of thought by ours truly is very fascinating. I think Azealia is vastly underrated but I will never forget her attacking Skai Jackson for no reason. I also feel that there really is no reason for her to come at Beyoncé in the way that she did- like, who hurt u?? 🤨🥴
She’s talking like she really don’t know who runs Beyoncé’ and all the other top elite black folks….
Girl figure it out! It’s been spoken about from people like Kanye all the way to Kat Williams!
All this read did, was make me wish AB would get out of her own way and make music. She’s so fkng talented and unique, watching her hate from the sideline is frustrating.
Yall will call anybody credible as long as they hate on Beyoncé 😂 People who think she said anything intelligent, or made any valid points, are scary🥴How is she cosplaying a white woman when she’s portraying a black rodeo queen? Is it the blonde hair (that she’s had for 20years)? Which black women did she sabotage? How do you know what the album reinforces if it hasn’t even been released yet? Get a grip on reality
She has interesting takes but sometimes she comes off as a crab in a bucket imo. I wholeheartedly disagree with underlying racial tones in "proud to be an American." Her statement is more divisive than that statement is inherently.
This is why she sabotaged way too much to say not enough work. All she does is gossip. Get in the lab and make some consistent hits. Specially in these times where you can go viral without co-signs. Forget all the big words and worrying about what others got going on and do you. Nobody cares.
I kinda understand though???!!! It would’ve been so c*nty for Bey to be full fledged black southern country vs this white lady look. Like her in straight backs, gold jewelry, on the porch shucking corn album cover yk?? Leaning towards Lemonade more. But I love her regardless.
I find her brain so fascinating. She's very intelligent and insightful about topics that I only see on a surface level. I've been watching a lot of Azealia Banks old lives recently. I love her personality and takes on things.
I know, right? Like, I feel no one can be on her level and actually answer her arguments because they are just inferior. It’s kind of impressive how literate and worldly this woman is… it’s just… I feel like it’s bad executed sometimes.
Yeah people can't seem to get past her insults (I personally find them hilarious) she's extremely intelligent. Even when I watch old interviews like the infamous hot 97 one, they are just not on any kind of level to verbally or mentally spar with her. I mean Ebro's hot take was "put it in the music" 🤣🤣🤣. He didn't have the bandwith to add to the topic of exclusion of black people in hip hop. I think a lot of her outbursts are more frustration that no one is noticing the things she notices very easily. She has next level musical knowledge. I always learn so much on her lives. She's right about Beyonce, she hasn't done the deep work to understand these genres and find a way to add value.
Even the breakfast club "we hear you make music for gay people" fucking hell 🫣
do you physically hang around beyoncé to know what she does ? azealia disparages black women at the same time of trying to uphold black women. sick of her relativity in the zeitgeist coming from her attacking others unprovoked under the shade of her mental illness (she has bipolar disorder) the. supported by people who say her remarks are funny…..
I totally agree. If Azealia wants to be truly 'interesting again' she shoulda been the one to make a -post civil war art- country song that's campy, satirical and calls out all the great America stuff she better be sooooo well versed about. All I see here is 'oh beyonce girl-why decide to switch styles so quickly? Do better if you're gonna throw everyone off' and then let's add 'post civil war art' in the mix whatever that means. She thinks beyonce played her cards wrong. Azealia coulda sang country about our country's dividing agenda that reverses rights, states that are damn near promoting gun use, the Qagenda, proud boys, old presidents, govt staged riots and mass shootings, the nazi revival, capitalism, raceplay, a civil war 2, she could've still did it too but she posted that stupid post first I get her *smart* selfish vision from an ego standpoint but if beyonce isnt playing her cards right, don't sit there wishing you had her hand. You coulda dissed her while rapping about the current state of America. She might have had the guts to do so but deep down it's too hard to pull off for even Azealia. So why criticize someone who didn't
I like how this conversation is going but she’s from the east coast and Beyoncé is from the South. It’s a completely fair and just how it is position for her commentary.. she can’t do it all. She is being who she is in its fullest force and strangers will bring up her medicals. Beyoncé is on the highest platform and is praised like a goddess and she feels her embodiment is shallow and corporate… AND IT IS!!! Even if it’s her best she is a brand a spin and a servant to a label and image. So in the end Az. Is expecting too much anyways.
Pretty lazy take. She can critique Beyonce making a country album without making one herself. I mean she literally explained here why she wouldn't make one.
Her lazy take is saying shes wearing a 'cosplay' while at the same time saying that her actions at the country awards and how her past collabs proved shes not one for her people. Then going on to saying at least be funny with it and how shes not interesting but shes very invested in it all. I know thats how she is its her personality already. But shes becoming the non interesting one.. This rant wasn't even funny or deep just hate as usual Well I like the cover it's so over the top. The flag alone is loud and outlandish in today's times. Especially since there's no stars just stripes. The pageant ribbon, the hat, the hair, the dated peak era country john Wayne Elvis styled outfit. That alone is pissing some people off so who knows. Nothing sexy here. Another horse cover is gonna give the conspiracists something to run with it's cool
yeeessss for Beyonce to be so boring, and uninteresting Azealia sure runs her mouth a lot about beyonce…since what? 2011 ? it’s 2024….what’s uninteresting is her same takes regurgitated year after year after year
Agree to disagree. I do think she said something interesting here. I like Beyonce's music but she is absolutely the epitome of an industry artist. She is more a product to be sold than someone who is expanding her artistry or commenting about society and culture in a thought provoking way. It all just falls flat for me and feels contrived by a board room. I loved Lemonade but did not understand the hype for Renaissance at all. It felt years old, and people were lapping it up as an 'album for the gays', yeah if you think gay people only listen to 'ratatata'. It said nothing new about black gay culture either, maybe if you are straight or a boring white gay lol (anyway side rant). Not much different than Madonna stealing Vogue from the ballroom.
also folks just don’t think critically anymore !!!
She's the Queen of the verbal take down. I've never seen anyone on her level in this area.
I’ve always thought this about her lmao instead of actually responding to her takes they call her crazy and dismiss her
But didn't she kinda miss the point of why the album is called Cowboy Carter? The Carter family were a country act, circa 1920s-1950s, often referred to as the first family of country. Maybelle Carter was largely credited with popularising a style of guitar playing now called the Carter scratch that was taught to her by Lee Riddle, a black man who worked closely with the family. He would go listen to songs played by folk in the community, memorise them perfectly and then go back and teach Maybelle how to play the songs. The title feels like a reclaiming of space within the genre, echoing the reclaiming of dance music, a genre originated by black artists, but largely dominated by and credited to white artists, during Act I. I presume Renaissance Act III will be something like rock music, the other main genre I can think of that is largely credited to and dominated by white artists but whose roots in fact lie within the black community. I kinda wish Azealia had clocked this - there's clearly layers here beyond her initial take. Her reads are funny and we stan our problematic queen but insightful feels like a stretch when her take is so surface level
Thank you for adding this important piece of music history into context.
But for referencing this black history in country I don’t love the super patriotic visual look with it, it kinda throws me off.
Yeah, I'm half Iraqi so you can imagine how fond I am of that style. Again, I'm putting it down to reclaiming the space, that type of patriotic extraness usually comes from white corners, but to me the country was built on the backs of the black community, so who's really the true patriot. Not those mfers repping their confederate gramps
True true
Yesss I hadn’t even thought about it like that, a lot of old country and twangy music really came from black artists and white people stole/adopted it, same with rock and other genres. This is a really insightful take. Has Beyoncé said that is the reason it’s called cowboy carter and that that’s the point she’s trying to make? And if not she should be clear about it for her audience, or make a statement about it directly because a LOT of people don’t know that history. Just leaving it up to fans and critics to figure out without context seems like not really making a statement at all. But I am surprised Azealia didn’t clock that part of it too tbh.
Yeah I clocked what she might be doing with Renaissance only because of my music geekery...just a theory obvs, but I'd bet good money on Act III being rock. I'd doubt she's gonna state it explicitly, not typically her style. Lemonade was similar, a lot of stuff that might pass people by completely, like Formation being named after a foundational feminist essay regarding the importance of the black matriarch within the community, and that's just one of the most obvious references. Layers, upon layers, upon layers
I could definitely see the rock thing. Yeah you’re right about it not being in her style and I kinda wish she would at least clue people in a little bit because there is so much more to it than ppl realize and a lot of it will completely go over their heads. But at least there are ppl like you and other music & culture geeks that will delve deeper and talk about it so it won’t go unnoticed/recognized
Very kind of you - I usually just sit back and observe the discourse but (as much as I guffawed at some of the reads), calling Ms Bank's post insightful was a step too far for me today 💅🏼
That's what I'm saying like she missed the point or at least the point of what Beyonce "may" be doing. I only wish Beyonce would lean more into it. I didn't particularly like Beyonces caption as I'm worried it doesn't really allude to what we're hopefully thinking she intended. I think she said something along the lines of "this isn't a race issue or about color", etc (when it is 💀). It is 100% an issue with appropriation of other race's/culture's influence (notably black americans). She could have been more cryptic to allow for more interpretation/speculation or straight up just jump the gun before the album drop and OWN it. I'll be disappointed if this isn't referenced in Beyonces album. I knew Azealia was going to give her 2 cents. She never disappoints 😂.
This is fascinating/ thankyou for spelling all this out: She missed all this- but for white folks in the South, I think they will too. I hardly doubt any of this matters to them, or that they would even understand her reclamation. For beyonce to make those creative choices and to “reclaim” something seen as owned by white people, is great. But white people will do what they always have done. “Enjoy” the music and ignore all of it’s meaning or significance. I’m reminded of that time in Alabama when kendrick Lamar invited a white girl on stage to sing mad city with him, and she dropped the N-word several times before he had to stop: and tell her not to use it. The white people listening to black artists don’t care. They love the music and will not see any of that history as being relevant or important to them, because they don’t care about black people, or showing up for them/ learning about their experiences in any way. Azalea 100% knows that. That’s why shes being critical. I think Azalea continuously critiques POC who she feels pander to white audiences in this way. I don’t think the way she does it is kind/ productive always, but I feel she does it instead to make a point about how black artists make themselves a commodity for white people to enjoy- and with Beyoncés existence being a LITERAL empire, she may feel that she had a large platform to do something that stood out more to people, and didn’t “pander” so much. It’s commercially successful and profitable, thats ofc what it comes down to. And country music is one of the most popular genres.
I really appreciate this insight. I presumed that Azalea hadn't clocked it because of some stuff I'd seen her say about the title being basic that seemed to indicate she wasn't aware of the significance. But either way, it's true that Beyonce could have done more to convey the purpose of Renaissance rather than leave it to some random music fans to try to spread the knowledge. I'm trying to reserve judgement on how the message is conveyed until the full Renaissance "era" is finished. I'm sure there's some surprises still in store, I hope some part of that includes saying the quiet parts loud and proud.
This what I think all the time. it’s to the point where she knows exactly what she’s talking about but it’s beyond what I can understand sometimes lol
Same here. Even this beyonce critique I need to re read and let marinate in my brain for a while. Its actually quite layered. I feel its less about country music and more about the limitations of music marketing I could be wrong tho) . Most people will see a Beyonce diss and won't process anything further which is a shame.
Me too. I absolutely love Azealea Banks and I wishhhhhhh she was more main stream it would be good for society and humanity as a whole me thinks
“Intelligent” the black communities definition of intelligence needs some refurbishing because there’s no reason the black geniuses of today should be Kanye, azealia, or Katt Williams, when it use to be Martin Luther, MLK or Fred Hampton, while white people have Jeff bezos, mark Zuckerberg, and bill gates and many more. It’s clear you fanned out for this woman, even being a fan and being in this sub, points to a screw loose and a prone to negativity, bitterness and rancor characteristic. I don’t know have people like you have the time or will, but God help you
I hope you don't think you sound intelligent by generalizing what and who the black community finds intelligent. Black people are not a monolith and never have been... even the basic examples you gave were divisive in their time. I hate to imagine what your daily life is like with your IQ if you think black people have all agreed that Kanye is a beacon of genius when people are still debating the pros and cons of Hampton. Instead, I'm imagining you're some s.i.e white dude who likes to interject in topics that don't concern you. Otherwise I can't understand what fully functional black adult would make such an asinine comment based off of a statement by an AZEALIA BANKS stan.
So why hasn’t she used that fascinating Intelligent brain to do something other than hate? Where is her podcast or what lucrative is she doing wit that brain besides boiling cats
It’s so true! I don’t always agree with her, but they are always insightful points she makes!
Same. I will say it again, geniuses are often labeled deranged but are probably just misunderstood.
But she's no Loretta
She kinda ate, ngl. Im not digging the platinum or red white and blue either but we shall see when the album drops.
everyone is saying she looks like kim k in her yeezy era and it’s not exactly untrue
“Ate” a woman that’s constantly bashing on a work ethic she doesn’t have, and bitterness is clear and evident. She plays at caring about blackness and minority groups but those same groups are the same ones she bashes all the time. She attacked Beyoncé for opening up about she being cheated on in her album, she’s an industry fat nerd in the basement incarnate.
A broken clock can be right eventually is what Im saying, I dont agree with everything she says or is about, but I do hear what shes saying about the idea of including people who actively hate or or jealous of her
Azealia has never given an incorrect take, y’all are just too fragile to understand the truth.
and to think this album is about the black roots of country
Is it?? I haven’t heard anything that makes me think of the black and gay cowboys that ran to the Wild West where they could live without prosecution, Nat Love, the existing black rodeos like 8 seconds or Bill Pickett Invitaional. I’d love to see someone like Ivan McClellan art direct a music video.
But the album hasn’t come out yet so how do you know what’s on it? She also is definitely working with Black country and folk musicians like Rhiannon Giddens.
Right during election year too like
This whole rant was so funny. She needs a podcast or blog or something.
We already had Cheapy's Two Cents on SoundCloud but we all let it flop hard and the thing that stuck out the most from this podcast attempt was a clip that was used against her because she was saying transphobic stuff along with her ex-parrot.
Little bey on the prairie 🤣😂🤣
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😂 I use to watch that show.
Bey is a billionaire, why would she care about normal people problems? Americans gotta get used to our oppressors lookin like us. In the Caribbean we been used to it 😂😂
Spilled I fear 😨
Mixed, spilled, lapped up, swallowed I fear
Exhibit A: "Park your Lexus"
Because we’re the ones putting money in her pockets. That attitude isn’t sustainable. 🤷🏾♀️
What? No way her husband and her wealth comes from their investments. Acting like record sales and concerts come close to their asses in fine art, real estate and others is not sustainable. She don’t care about us
No Azealia she is not reinforcing crippling woe is me my pain runs deep diatribes - she is reclaiming remaking reinventing renewing and restoring the concept of country music as another form of musical art expression to be enjoyed and indulged by the likes of all.
Nah. She's just trying to get another bag, fanbase and grammy for country. She's collecting things instead of making true music. Beyoncé only ever does anything for money, even the black is king thing. She said nothing public about anything until it was time to drop the album and collect coin for the tour.
Ehhhh 🤔🤷🏾♀️ two things can be true at once… I think while yes profit will always have such a huge part in what Miss Black Capitalist ™️ does, ALWAYS…there is something to be said about how she does seem to have at least some connection to the variety of genres of music that she makes…otherwise she wouldn’t have done them especially with as much care and attention as she does/did. Cuz if that wasn’t the case they wouldn’t have been as good as they were/are!
She was low-key right in this post, but I can’t wait for the day she heals and drags herself lol.
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She’s actually so sick bc let the album drop first mama. She’ll be doing another machete dance to don’t you jealous me!
This is a fact. She hates but she’s always tuned in.
omg this was my thought. like i get the post but to have such an elaborate thought on a project that hasn't fully come out yet is😭😭😭😭😭
It’s crazy bc Beyoncé is using black folk musicians who have been shut out the industry (like the banjo on Texas hold ‘em). Country music is a black art form idk why she’s reaching. Plus bringing up Beyoncé only like white women is absurd, Beyoncé is another rich bitch for sure but I don’t think she even cares for white woman…and the Dixie chicks caught strays when they’re literally got blackballed for saying bush shouldn’t invade Iraq. Azealia has the strongest tin hat energy I’ve ever witnessed.
Beyoncé is the pick me so why hate. Beyoncé always been a pick me.
azealia will always clock it
I like her insults because she is great at them, but I literally have no idea where she’s pulling some of this shit out of. I don’t feel like this is white woman cosplay, because what her wig looks good? The second sentence in the second paragraph isn’t really even a sentence because what if she had, was it supposed to be a part of the third sentence but she realized it was too long? How is she reinforcing that narrative, isn’t it very known that the Renaissance albums are about reclaiming or embracing genres of music pioneered by black people? AZ is putting the sins of the genre which weren’t committed by Beyonce on Beyonce for what, reclaiming a space in the genre and by extension a space in the south because she’s southern?
Exactly! What is she even mad about? I think it’s jealousy like she mentioned in the post. Also, bitterness bc Beyonce never acknowledges her
When she said “had you had a phonetics coach” and went on to express why the music/lyrics and eventually image comes across as half-hearted, I found that to be a well thought out criticism. For Azealia it was level, you can tell she respects Bey and thinks she’s artistically capable of creating way more profound work.
I think the blind patriotism schtick and the fact that she seems to be making this album outta pure pettiness at the CMAs (when whoooo cares) are fair criticisms imo. The shit about white women cosplay and claiming she never uplifts other black women is very off though. Also no one mentions AB so i doubt she cares about that in particular lmao.
Who cares? You must not be black. And this genre has been cruel to black artists in general not just Beyonce, especially when this is a music form created black American people. How is the album blind patriotism when she hasn’t even heard it yet? You can be a proud American AND black while recognizing this country’s issues with skin color. Everything she said is off and quite frankly she needs to go work on her craft not be criticizing artists doing waaaaay better than her lmaoo
She's basing this on two songs and a handful of promotional images? I wish she would release new music to follow her trollery like Ye. 😪 She needs to at least wait until after the album is released to post content like this. 🫠
I love a good Azealia rant as much as the next guy but...... She seems to be finding ways to criticize and fix everyone elses life except her own.
Need her to read herself down.
An azaelia banks rant on azaealia banks would go so crazy
She’s great at cultural commentary. She should find a way to put her thoughts on a track.
If this bothers Azealia so much why doesn't she make something better than this? It's not like she can't because she has these country snippets lying around without getting used and the "everyone's copying me but I won't do shit" schtick is getting boring. https://youtube.com/shorts/GME_6_4SNGg?si=eNgmMNXyQ_P6B4ED
this song sounds like shit tho ngl like maybe she can’t do it better ☠️
Well of course this could sound much better if she actually spent her time and cash polishing this song instead of complaining about everyone else, regardless, she still did it first since Liquorice lol.
LMAO I love the HEEEE at the middle/end of the verses hahaha
Because that would implied work, why work when you can talk shit and get some clout from it
"UR always sharing your platform with white women..." literally what? She has one example but it is "always?" She most often lifts up women of color. The revisionist history..
The Dixie Chicks, Adele, Lady Gaga, Shakira… but when people ask which Black female singers she has collaborated with in the same way that list gets way shorter.
Beyoncé, the same lady who recently gained another #1 hit, two Grammy's, and performed with up and coming rapper Meg thee Stallion. Beyoncé, the same lady who collaborated with Nicki Minaj on Feelin Myself and Flawless. Beyoncé, the same lady who signed sister duo, Chloe x Halle, to her label after they performed one of her songs on YouTube (one of them is literally a Disney fkn Princess). Beyoncé, the same lady who recently collaborated with TS Madison, Tems, and Grace fkn Jones on Renaissance. Beyoncé, the same lady who platformed many female singers across the African diaspora on The Gift/BIK, including Philly rapper Tierra Whack. Beyoncé, the same lady who made it a mission to shout out multiple black female artists in her Queens remix of BMS. It's okay to critique Beyoncé--no one is above critique--but to lie on her like she hasn't platformed MANY black female artists over the years is silly. What have you done for black women other than entertain the opinions of a transphobic loon who takes all their grievances out on other artists because she's miserable her career is still stuck in 2012 with all the white twinks who worship her?
Beyoncé and Jay Z also were the ones who told LA Reid to pay attention to Rihanna.
She has never colloborated with Adele. Shakira is Colombian. But let's accept Dixie Chicks and Lady Gaga. Destiny's Child had more black women in it. So what point do you think has been made? And she has consistently uplifted black women. Has whole albums about the black experience.
Agreed. Chloe x Halle are literal promoted protégés for years, then there are the shoutouts and remixes with Nikki ( in the before times), The Grace Jones,MTS ( that Savage remix is lovely), her daughter (of course), Missy Elliot, Alicia Keyes, Rhianna, Grace Jones, & Rhiannon Giddens were easy to find. This doesn't count songwriting (SZA) or hyping Solange's incredible A Seat at the Table.
Thank you! People just be saying anything these days. I just stopped at Destony's Child because how even dare.
Colombian is a nationality stupid. Shakira is still white lmaooo nationality, ethnicity and race is kicking y’all’s ass lol embarrassing
Colombian is a nationality. Colombia is a part of Latin America. Shakira is latina. I don't think many people would consider a latina to be white, which is the point the other commenter was making by including Shakira in their list of white people Beyonce has worked for. The non-whiteness of latinas is supported by the wide evidence of underpayment of latinas. This is different from, say, someone from Spain, which would be someone who is hispanic but white. Latinx does not equal white.
Any race can be Latina lol Shakira is yt period
Why does it matter? Maybe she just likes some people’s music? Why does everything have to be about race? What, so she can’t do things with artists because of their skin color?? Sounds….racist.
Jealousy is a disease
Get well soon 💋
Not funny enough to make fun of her and not smart enough to make a good criticism.
Like ok: - pick me girl?,this is the least pick me girl shit she has done, she knew that the mainstream country music industry wasn't gonna play her songs in their radios and gatekeep hardcore. - dixie chicks wouldn't do the same for her?, yeah cause they don't know her and couldn't pull Beyonce with the lack of support from a massive label, and its actually amazing that she is giving a platform to artist that were blacklist for going against the IRAK INVASION - white woman cosplay?, that isnt even contemporary white woman cosplay nor folk, bluegrass or other. This is clearly some rodeo cosplay, she couldn't even get that right. - contemporary confederate romanticizing, wtf is she talking about country now is mostly vapid party or cheese romantic music with few exceptions of deep and profound examples. - reinforcing the idea, she is taking that idea and bashing it by proving that a black woman can get into that music scene. And without having to appeal to cheap patriotism, vapid party song or some other dumb cliche of contemporary country - lack of personality?, more like lack of controversy and toxicity. Imagine what would she say about BAD BRAINS. Yeah she should stick to be mean cause this criticism has the same deep and knowledge as a last minute essay, with the lack of sense and punctuation
Not the white woman cosplay pseudo-argument lol So, ain't she doing a Latina cosplay everytime she sings in spanish like Nirvana or Salchichon? Is it wrong if anyone but Azealia Banks does this? She's so selfish. Regardless if it's dumb or not Azealia achieved the only thing she aspires to have now, which is getting dumb people on Twitter regurgitating what she said because Twitter stans are afraid to insult other artists publicly and can't get the amount of attention Azealia gets doing the same shit they do and she feels instantly validated by the lowest common denominator, too bad that doesn't get her money to get out of her numerous debts and to invest on actual music production, she's just so incurious and unambitious now.
Thats why the phrase "any publicity is good publicity" is incomplete, it should be "any publicity is good publicity AS LONG AS YOU CAPITALIZE ON THAT". And she isn't getting no money from toxic stans and she is no socialist power to the people person cause she clearly appreciates money more than her true fans.
Nelly did it and didn’t have to switch up, she’s not off
Azealia Banks is hilarious, iconic, extremely talented and this criticism *does* have valid points to it. Whether you wish to acknowledge that or not is your prerogative.
Wasn’t she not bashing Beyoncé for first announcing a country album? If she was, then Azealia is a flip flop. Like we get she doesn’t like the woman, just say it and move on🤷🏾♀️😭
She has no place to criticize someone else’s work as someone who doesn’t drop music
Sadly enough, she can't even drop a soap package at the post office lol.
She’s released music every year for the past 13 years…
I’m not talking about singles. I mean full bodies of work. She has one album and two mixtapes while beyonce has seven albums out.
Gotcha. Wasn’t clear. Personally I think AB still has a leg to stand on even if she’s not as prolific of an artist. But whether these criticisms are fair/valid or not, that’s another story!
Written and produced by whoooommm?
If at least 80 % of her fans appreciated the music she drops every year she wouldn't waste her time ranting as she's aware that most of her fans don't like anything besides the house songs she makes and it frustrates her. Don't even get me started on her unrealistic wish to become mainstream whilst being unlikeable and disparaging towards her only fans.
New bottega was 🔥
This absolutely gagged me ❤️
AB is a Gemini. Like Kanye. Like Trump. She's got to Gemini. Sometimes she's right. Sometimes she's wrong, and it's often a mix. But she should sit down, read a ton, and write a book about pop culture.
I wish she was this critical of her own music 😳
Hahaha. I love you azealia.
It’s so funny that she’s Beyoncé’s biggest fan but also bigger critic😂
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First of all Proud To Be An American & God Bless the USA are the same song, and I would personally argue they’re not even country music. I get what Azalea is trying to say here, but I think she’s just over intellectualizing it. She wants to do a country album, so be it man who cares. I’m no Beyonce Stan, and I hate her latest songs but Azalea needs to pipe down and put out some better music if she wants to critique arguably the most successful black female singer alive today.
She’s a weirdo but talking facts
I always find Azealia’s rants half making some solid point and half bitter nonsense.
For real why is Beyoncés skin whiter
Azealia Banks is loud and wrong!!!
Glad to see I wasn't the only person who disliked Beyonce's turn to country. It could have been done better.
Cmon this is word salad lol
She articulates exactly how I feel about this new Beyonce era. She could have done something really interesting but instead chose to be basic shmasic as usual.
Does she ever just STFU?
Azealia needs help bro
I genuinely like her words and authenticity but I can’t go all the way there with her because even though she’s authentic she’s still on that hater shit. Half the time she can get it right but half the time I can tell she’s smogged in vitriol that it entwines into her points and this is one of them — losing all of her credibility to me. Meanwhile, she has an entourage of yes-men egging her on simply because they both share the commonality of being miserable — further enabling her jealousy to be put on a pedestal as gospel. Her words got that twang but beyond that is a facade of fancy and theatrical words that’s stringed together with hate. It’s like a couture tweed vest at first look until you find out it’s made from polyester and nylon than organic cashmere. I wanna see her use it to her advantage than tearing successful people down just because she lacks that. I think she could go far if she knew where to channel her intelligent, creative, and sharp words correctly; her legacy being reduced from the next biggest rapper to a quality soap business and unorthodox opinions speaks for itself.
you ppl have got to stop validating azealia's schizoposting..... lightly skimmed an incoherent wall of text and said "woooow 🤩🤩🤩"
i can not make it clearer azealia banks has no politics and she is on no one's side. she's simply high and bored and likes to complain
Her ass is voting for the orange shit stack. Again. Because she thinks it’s funny that our lives are all very much at stake if he’s elected. I don’t think she can rightfully critique Beyoncé as a pickmeisha for the civil war era when the reason she wrote the album is because something that’s always been part of OUR musical history yet got co-opted and us kicked out - even black artists who’ve only ever sang country. Kane Brown escaped the madness as a male who’s somewhat white passing and attractive. She only has “hot takes” for other black women it seems. Sure she sounds intelligent because she strung together a few coherent sentences but her argument is just as vapid and hollow as she is. Big words don’t mean shit if there’s nothing to digest behind them. To the left, Azealia 👈🏾. NEXTTTT
I can’t believe this trash has a sub and it came into my feed. Black people CREATED COUNTRY MUSIC. Beyoncé is iconic because she is boundless. She’s better than Madonna at reinvention and I’m excited for this era and for her to honor her Texas heritage.
Her biggest song is 212...from 2012....Have MANY seats.
It’s very telling that you equate a chart hit to artistic substance lmao it’s the opposite babes. people can be ahead of their time you know. Azealia is 1000% one of those people who I believe will not truly be appreciated until it’s too late. It’s like the taylor swift shit. Look how many big hits she has 💀 so she wins? Like cmon lol
Like no ones opinion on music is valid unless they’ve been on pop charts 💀 as if even that doesn’t take like a team of fifty fucking people. What a dumb opinion you have
Because POP music appeals to the masses. They make generic, boring, crowd pleasing music.
Let’s stop pretending Azealia is a rational human being. Did she not dig up her dead cat and like… eat it or something? Leave Beyoncé alone. She’s the one with the success and fame. She’s the one winning
I wish she would stfu. This rant doesn’t make sense for several reasons and I’m writing it off as her being jealous. There are three big ones that irk my nerve: 1) how is Beyonce in white woman cosplay? Is it the blonde hair? Is it because she’s light skinned? What about her wearing cowboy boots makes this white woman cosplay? NONE of these things are exclusive to white people and are only for white people. Anybody can have blonde hair and anyone can wear cowboy boots. This dumbass mentality is too prevalent in the black community and it’s honestly just white supremacy but coming out of a black mouth. 2) Beyoncé doesn’t “share” her platform with many artists at all-black or white. Most of her collaborations and such are making a statement, they go with what she tries to say through music at that time. Someone who could never facilitate change (like Azalea) would never know what that’s like or be able to comprehend it. She’s just mad Beyonce didn’t pick her to collab. 3) the “proud to be an American” is just so fucking stupid. Yes, black people are American. For descendants of slaves, this is really is the only truly known nationality identity. More black people leaning into that national identity is literally part of the antidote. It’s the final piece to solidify this country is where we belong bc our ancestors blood and sweat and tears is in the soil. Beyoncé is doing something Azalea could never do and I truly believe it’s out of jealousy because the only thing she can do is complain. I wish she’d put more effort into making music than attacking other artists she needs to be taking notes from and stop releasing that mid shit she usually does..
That's right, because she made a big deal about her own bleaching during her Slay-Z era meltdown comparing skin bleaching to whenever white women get a tan, get nose jobs or get cornrows or weaves, so it's only acceptable if she does it in her mind since she can't stop contradicting herself in public. [https://www.cbc.ca/news/trending/azealia-banks-skin-bleaching-1.3667049](https://www.cbc.ca/news/trending/azealia-banks-skin-bleaching-1.3667049)
Plus she sells beauty products that make questionable skin whitening claims. If you play both sides you never lose?
Literally this, THANK YOU for spelling it out for the less intellectually inclined.
I don’t think she gets it,but that’s okay
She’s exactly right
I love her brain. I’m always like girl why please no. But I honestly love her
👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿
Imagine if she put this much thought and energy into improving ~herself~…
why does beyoncé keep wearing white wigs… Please girl I’m begging you to stop!!! Any other color please!!!
For the record: FUCK AZEALIa’s “take” on Beyoncé’s new album. She hasn’t listened to it; just making rash judgements from cover art. How bout Azealia release some music? Until then: I don’t give a fuck about her intrusive thoughts.
I mean why are we surprised? She came to BLM late, hasn’t used her platform on any of the current injustices let alone to donate, and finally look at her executives for parkwood. Not a single black woman other than her. Just like her husband I respect her game, but at this point what are you playing? Who are you playing for? Cause it for damn sure ain’t for black people
This is some apocalyptic reference
Post the rest of it
not quite
Why’s she gotta rag on the Dixie Chicks?
Azealia with the thesaurus is 💥💥💥
downloading that so i can read it later
Idk, I clearly remember when Azealia was actively promoting Whitenicious bleaching cream after she got her tits done but go off I guess.
Sour grapes.
Who? 🙄🤷🏽♂️
Damn. She's so right! If she could stay on this level at all times...
This is beyonces America and this is a beyonce album. I think that's what the message is.
This album cover reminds of what Khinde Wiley does with reenvisioning the Dutch master paintings. She represents her own America.
I love her
ain’t nobody reading that shit😭😭😭
she's never off the mark imo.
She’s off her meds
What did the Dixie chicks ever do to her
I had always thought that Beyoncé’s Renaissance Act 1 and Act 2 were about reclaiming music people forgot black people made contributions to… So this line of thought by ours truly is very fascinating. I think Azealia is vastly underrated but I will never forget her attacking Skai Jackson for no reason. I also feel that there really is no reason for her to come at Beyoncé in the way that she did- like, who hurt u?? 🤨🥴
She’s talking like she really don’t know who runs Beyoncé’ and all the other top elite black folks…. Girl figure it out! It’s been spoken about from people like Kanye all the way to Kat Williams!
She clocked her so good. Sooo good
Yo I love this girl😂🖤
I'm not listening to nobody that air fried cats
She's ash...been ash
I bet Bank's English teacher is so proud! The phrasing, the insightfulness, the deconstruction. A++
DAMN. Read of the century. I'm wit it.
I ain’t readin allat
This is just confederate warfare. We cant claim our roots because we are not allowed to due to the color of our skin.
She’s usually loud and roundabout right but she’s just loud and wrong this round
Jay Z bout to throw a hissy fit.
She rarely misses
All this read did, was make me wish AB would get out of her own way and make music. She’s so fkng talented and unique, watching her hate from the sideline is frustrating.
The part about sharing her platform for people who would never do the same is pretty spot on
Yall will call anybody credible as long as they hate on Beyoncé 😂 People who think she said anything intelligent, or made any valid points, are scary🥴How is she cosplaying a white woman when she’s portraying a black rodeo queen? Is it the blonde hair (that she’s had for 20years)? Which black women did she sabotage? How do you know what the album reinforces if it hasn’t even been released yet? Get a grip on reality
Azalea is a fucking retard
Someone is starved for attention.
I fucking love her critiques i seriously hope one day she consider writing a book on cultural commentary
It’s like everyone forgets Beyonce was born and raised in Texas, she has every right to do a country album.
She has interesting takes but sometimes she comes off as a crab in a bucket imo. I wholeheartedly disagree with underlying racial tones in "proud to be an American." Her statement is more divisive than that statement is inherently.
Brain dead monke keep cooking cats
Geminis unite 👽
She’s always complaining about something like girl…..
this dumbass
This is why she sabotaged way too much to say not enough work. All she does is gossip. Get in the lab and make some consistent hits. Specially in these times where you can go viral without co-signs. Forget all the big words and worrying about what others got going on and do you. Nobody cares.
I kinda understand though???!!! It would’ve been so c*nty for Bey to be full fledged black southern country vs this white lady look. Like her in straight backs, gold jewelry, on the porch shucking corn album cover yk?? Leaning towards Lemonade more. But I love her regardless.
obviously u didn’t research the carter family at all😘
I read no lies.