Azealia Banks Blasts Kendrick Lamar For Ferguson Comments: “Dumbest Shit I’ve Ever Heard”
Another day, another (imminent) Twitter beef for Azealia Banks. She took offense at comments Kendrick Lamar made about Ferguson in his Billboard cover story and jumped on Twitter to share her thoughts. The quote that inspired her outburst? “I wish somebody would look in our neighborhood knowing that it’s already a situation, mentally, where it’s fucked up,” K-Dot said in his interview. “What happened to [Michael Brown] should’ve never happened. Never. But when we don’t have respect for ourselves, how do we expect them to respect us? It starts from within.”
The femcee’s verdict? “Dumbest shit I’ve ever heard a black man say.” But the Broke With Expensive Taste diva didn’t stop there. “Do you know about the generational effects of poverty, racism and discrimination?” she pondered. “There are things in society that benefit a select few of us. Fine…. But don’t put down the rest by saying they don’t respect themselves.” The 23-year-old then got even more personal. “HOW DARE YOU open ur face to a white publication and tell them that we don’t respect ourselves…. Speak for your fucking self.” See Azealia’s full commentary after the jump.
"When we don't respect ourselves how can we expect them to respect us" dumbest shit I've ever heard a black man say.
— AZEALIA BANKS (@AZEALIABANKS) January 9, 2015
Lol do you know about the generational effects of poverty, racism and discrimination?
— AZEALIA BANKS (@AZEALIABANKS) January 9, 2015
There are things in society that benefit a select few of us. fine…. But don't put down the rest by saying they don't respect themselves
— AZEALIA BANKS (@AZEALIABANKS) January 9, 2015
HOW DARE YOU open ur face to a white publication and tell them that we don't respect ourselves…. Speak for your fucking self.
— AZEALIA BANKS (@AZEALIABANKS) January 9, 2015
I really pray for the minds of the urban youth, I really do because I was once on the side of feeling like I wasn't owed anything…
— AZEALIA BANKS (@AZEALIABANKS) January 9, 2015
Once on the side of feeling like black people ain't shit because that's what America and my social studies textbooks taught me
— AZEALIA BANKS (@AZEALIABANKS) January 9, 2015
Becoming an adult and doing my own research has REALLY opened up my fucking eyes, and I get upset to know that…..
— AZEALIA BANKS (@AZEALIABANKS) January 9, 2015
There are still young black kids in our public schools being indoctrinated with the same shit they pumped into my head.
— AZEALIA BANKS (@AZEALIABANKS) January 9, 2015
And fuck all this shit about erasing racial barriers and getting along… Why does white America think blacks even wanna be here?!
— AZEALIA BANKS (@AZEALIABANKS) January 9, 2015
I really just want my fucking reparations, and want you guys to stop killing my sons and telling my daughters they're ugly.
— AZEALIA BANKS (@AZEALIABANKS) January 9, 2015
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[Via Billboard].
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