October 21, 2011: Azealia Banks posts to Twitter: “I smell beef.”ĭecember 2, 2011: Someone tweets, “ Iggy Azealia Banks iz weird.” Banks responds, “We’re two COMPLETELY different people hun. It doesn’t matter that a day earlier the Harlem rapper was in love with Iggy, nor that she never says, “fuck Iggy Azalea,” or anything like it. It’s better.” So there you go, that’s the start of the beef. And fuck Iggy Azalea, I had a song called ‘Pussy’ before she ever did. haha.”Ī year later, Iggy will misremember (or misrepresent) Banks’s run of tweets as, “’I’m next level, I had a song about being a Barbie before Nicki Minaj had a song about being a Barbie. Also wrote a song called P-U-$-$-Y before Iggy Azalea.” Iggy writes a subtweet: “its NEVER been about who did it first… its ALWAYS been about who did it better.” Banks, uncharacteristically, doesn’t engage in the scrap, retweeting Iggy’s insult and writing back: “i know right? lmfaooo. October 20, 2011: Azealia Banks tweets, “once wrote a song called ‘Barbie Shit,’ but nicki minaj blew up like the week after so i took it down, lololz. Evidence can be found fairly easily on the site. (This post - like all of Banks’s early tweets - was later deleted. October 19, 2011: Azealia Banks tweets, “how sexy is iggy azalea? it’s kind of ridiculous … *tugs collar to let out steam*” So, seemingly, there’s no problem here. On Twitter, she says, “It was kinda awkward cause this girl stood in the front row my entire set screaming ‘your pussy suckssss!!!’ ! Lol #whyyoumad.” Curiously, video from that night shows a warm crowd one person does boo her, at the 6:26 mark. She says she wants to prove people (or at least that person) wrong. October 19, 2011: In a number of interviews, Iggy says getting booed offstage at New York’s Canal Room is the impetus for her career. September 19, 2011: DJ Lissa Monet calls Iggy and Azealia Banks “my new girl crushes” on Twitter. rapper says, “When the relay starts, I’m a runaway slave.” Her debut mixtape, Ignorant Art, is released days later. September 9, 2011: Iggy releases a video for her song “D.R.U.G.S.,” where she says the line, “ When the relay starts, I’m a runaway slave … Master, hitting on the past gotta spit it like a pastor.” Rapping over the beat to Kendrick Lamar’s “ Look Out for Detox,” it’s an allusion to the line where the L.A. (Warning: There are a lot of tweets from a variety of people that we quote directly, so be prepared for a lot of spelling and grammatical mistakes.) Prior to the Grammys, we ran through her past dust-ups (many of them with Azealia Banks). In Iggy Azalea’s short career, the Australian rapper has been no stranger to controversy, particularly of the racial-appropriation sort.
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