While Del Rey didn’t create a Twitter thread, she proceeded to tweet different things in regards to Banks, saying that the performer could’ve been the best rapper of all time if she hadn’t blown it and messed with the one person who’d had her back.
In a classic Azealia Banks move, where she loves to get involved in drama, the rapper commented on Lana’s post and said that Del Rey was acting as a “typical white woman” who pretends to be an ally to minorities. Related: New Spotify Feature Helps Emerging Artists Find An Audience.He also wore a water bottle costume, and said that slavery wasn’t real. The post was uploaded after West’s performance on “Saturday Night Live”, where he wore the hat and claimed that cast members had bullied him for it. The singer left a comment on Kanye West’s last Instagram post, where he’s seen wearing a MAGA hat. The latest celebrity to get involved in a Twitter feud is Lana Del Rey, someone who’s normally steered clear of public drama. Celebrities can take down their posts and pretend they didn’t say anything, but odds are someone will have already taken a screenshot of it, and the rest is history. But there’s also the chance this will end with a simple apology letter.The worst way to have a fight nowadays is through social media because it basically guarantees that it’ll be immortalized forever, especially if you’re famous. Honestly, if Del Rey’s hex on Donald Trump had worked in the first place, maybe we wouldn’t all be watching this unfold. “When her house mysteriously goes up in flames while she is asleep inside,” she went on, “I want to see as many #Azealiavoodoo hashtags as possible.” (It’s not the first time Banks has wished death on a perceived nemesis-just consider Wendy Williams, who, earlier this year, Banks said she hoped would succumb to a heart attack.)
“You know The Big Bad Witch is smarter than that,” Banks replied. In the midst of things, a fan of Banks chimed in on Twitter, urging her not to let Del Rey “ ruin all that she’s worked for,” per Bossip. Last month, Del Rey criticized Kanye West’s support of Donald Trump, commenting on an Instagram post of the rapper in his MAGA hat, “Trump becoming our president was a loss for the country but your support of him is a loss for the culture.” (West has since deleted his social media accounts.) This prompted a response from Banks: “You, a privileged white woman, have no f–king business opening your mouth to a black man from Chicago, telling him what he should and shouldn’t f–king believe in,” she wrote on Twitter (via her unverified account, created after her real account was suspended for-you got it-another feud). Indeed, in the latest development of her ugly, public feud with Lana Del Rey, the rapper hinted that, if the singer’s house were to burn down, she might have something to do with it. It just means she has a more sanitary space in which to conjure her witchery.
“Real witches do real things.” So said Azealia Banks, in a video she posted two years ago depicting the inside of the closet where she purported to have been sacrificing chickens over the course of “ three years of brujería.” She may have used her sandblaster to scrub out the blood and feathers caked to her closet, but that doesn’t mean Banks has stopped casting spells.