Azealia Banks has had it … officially.
After successfully getting RuPaul’s track “Call Me Mother” removed from Spotify for claims of plagiarism, Banks tweeted on Monday evening, dissatisfied with the fact that the song, and its parent album American, were back on the streaming platform.
In a since-deleted tweet, Banks called RuPaul “scum” and added, “Fuck all yall hairy asscrack ass drag race bitches.” She said, “I don’t want to see any of y’all suffocated nutsack ass drag queens in a silk gown performing any of my music on that dumbass show ever again.”
In response to Banks’ tweets, Season 10 queen Monet X Change wrote, “I will no longer perform my Azealia mix … EVER” calling the rapper “rotted trash.”
I will no longer perform my Azealia Mix…EVER. @cheapyxo is rotted TRASH.
— Monét X Change (@monetxchange) June 5, 2018
Banks responded by talking about Monet X Change’s “mildew ass girdle” while Monet X Change called Banks a “tired bitch with preschool reads.” Monet then went on to say that the LGBTQ community is the only reason Banks has a career.
Bitch your crotch is rotting and fermenting under that sour mildew ass girdle sus 😂🤣🤣🤣 I do not give a goddamn .. 😂😂😂 https://t.co/vdHfowLtgc
— CHEAPY XO (@cheapyxo) June 5, 2018
Good one Azealia. Gotta love a tired bitch with preschool reads. Do you not realize that the LGBTQIA+ Community is the ONLY reason you have a career? The hetero community wasn’t checkin for yo ass before this debacle, and they won’t after. Obscurity is where you shall exist. https://t.co/yGQ5TF3iEY
— Monét X Change (@monetxchange) June 5, 2018
After Banks and Monet finished tweeting each other, Banks tweeted out an essay about her own place in ballroom and queer cultures.
“Just because I’m queer doesn’t mean we walk step and step,” Banks tweeted. “The white gays always find a way to inject their selfish ass ideas about how queer people are supposed to be into EVERYTHING I do.”
She added, “Black queer women have a different fucking life from gay white men. Stop trying to police my queer experience and tell me how to be. You guys are honestly suffocating and I wish you would go away and stay away for good.”
Banks went on to call white gay men “tyrants.”
And this is the LAST bit of acknowledgement any of you drag race bitches will get from me. pic.twitter.com/rQnzCUGpoV
— CHEAPY XO (@cheapyxo) June 5, 2018
I have so many good things going on right now and I’m so fucking annoyed that these dragged out clowns have found a way to attach themselves to me yet AGAIN. Like shit just because I’m queer doesn’t mean we walk step and step. I be trying to live my gay life with the KUNTS
— CHEAPY XO (@cheapyxo) June 5, 2018
Black queer women have a different fucking life from gay white men. Stop trying to police my queer experience and tell me how to be. You guys are honestly suffocating and I wish you would go away and stay away for good.
— CHEAPY XO (@cheapyxo) June 5, 2018
I’ve been actively trying to live my best black queer female life and you keep trying to force me to consider you when you have absolutely no consideration for me. I just want you guys to go the fuck away. Tired of this fake ass lgbtq shit niggas are not a community you guys are
— CHEAPY XO (@cheapyxo) June 5, 2018
TYRANTS. And not invited to my life. Get out and stay out. Kunt brigade only
— CHEAPY XO (@cheapyxo) June 5, 2018
“I’ve been actively trying to live my best black queer female life and you keep trying to force me to consider you when you have absolutely no consideration for me. I just want you guys to go the fuck away,” she said.
Banks was previously highly critical of Drag Race in a series of Tweets on Sunday.
And that’s why ru won’t let the trans girls in because she knows they will SLAY the house down.
— CHEAPY XO (@cheapyxo) June 3, 2018
In a tweet on Sunday, Banks brought up RuPaul’s controversial remarks that trans women who had begun a physical transition would not be allowed to compete on Drag Race.
“Ru won’t let the trans girls in because she knows they will SLAY the house down,” Banks wrote. “If a woman wants to be a drag queen she can. I dunno what y’all boys keep tal[lking] bout–women can’t be drag queens. If women can’t be drag queens then neither can you. You can’t be a caricature of a woman and then try to dis[clude] her. Ridiculous.”
She added, “Y’all sit up here and beg for respect and inclusivity then turn around and tell others they can’t be included. You want your femininity to be respected but won’t allow an actual woman to participate in any gay male affairs. Makes no sense.”
Y’all sit up here and beg for respect and inclusivity then turn around and tell others they can’t be included. You want your feminity to be respected but won’t allow an actual woman to participate in any gay male affairs. Makes no sense
— CHEAPY XO (@cheapyxo) June 3, 2018
To end her thoughts, Banks said she’s a fan of Violet Chachki, Aja, Shea Coulee and Sasha Velour — who she called “the bald one” — but separate from their participation in Drag Race.
But I do enjoy violet chachki and the bald headed one. Violet is really dope. I like Aja and Shea too but I like them via social media, mutual friends and personal interaction seeing them separate from that show. I respect anyone who respects me
— CHEAPY XO (@cheapyxo) June 3, 2018
Aja responded to the controversy on Twitter on Tuesday.
First of all – as a non binary queer person of color AS WELL, yes we have had a lot taken from us through the years. But as someone from the community putting an entire margin of the community because of the actions suspected of one person doesn’t entirely make sense.
— Aja (@ajaqueen) June 5, 2018
I appreciate her work and think it’s great but when I’m insulted for no reason then I will just walk away from the situation. I don’t need to curse anyone out, make a scene or break my character. There is a lot of irony in between the lines here.
— Aja (@ajaqueen) June 5, 2018
Regardless – do the songs sound the same. Yes – but should that issue have caused this entire huge issue…. no. Because the fact is – she didn’t make the song – it was most likely written for her and produced. So those people should be held accountable.
— Aja (@ajaqueen) June 5, 2018
I think that bashing an entire part of the queer community while using queerness as a crutch is counter productive and isn’t okay because it sends the same non inclusive message about queerness into the world.
— Aja (@ajaqueen) June 5, 2018
Point blank – this whole thing could have been handled so differently. And to the people who keep saying I wanted to collab with her a week ago. Yes I did. So what get the fuck over it because that’s irrelevant to this conversation. She didn’t block me a week ago.
— Aja (@ajaqueen) June 5, 2018
“I don’t need to curse anyone out, make a scene or break my character,” Aja wrote. “I think that bashing an entire part of the queer community while using queerness as a crutch is counterproductive and isn’t okay because it sends the same non-inclusive message about queerness into the world.”