Azealia Banks never minces her words and revived a decade against Lily Allen as she defended Beyoncé.
The “212” rapper took to her Instagram Stories over the weekend to call out the British pop star for her criticism of Bey's. Cowboy Carter album and recalled a play-by-play of an alleged phone call between her and Allen that took place “a few years ago.”
“Ok @lilyallen you'll stop right there and sit this out,” Banks wrote in an accompanying Advertising sign story about Allen framing Bey's country pivot as “pretty calculated.” Banks also reported an alleged phone conversation between the two.
“Are we going to discuss that phone call to me – a few years ago – apparently to your face – crying and crying asking me to forgive you for being casually racist?” he wrote in part.
Advertising sign Allen has been contacted for comment.
Allen name-dropped Banks on her April 4 episode I miss you? podcast while dissecting Beyoncé's cover of Dolla Parton's “Jolene.”
“I read a comment from Azealia Banks where she was like, 'Stop talking about Jay-Z like somebody wants to fight him,'” Allen said with a laugh. “Literally, no one even looked at him for about 10 years, relax.”
Co-host Miquita Oliver then asked Allen if she found the Brooklyn rap mogul attractive, and she replied, “I mean, I'm attracted to power, right? But maybe not physically,” said the singer, who is married Stranger Things star David Harbour. “I don't want my current husband to be upset, but that's not really the physicality I'm after.”
Allen went on to dig Beyoncé's decision to explore a country album Cowboy Carter.
“It's very strange that you cover the most successful songs in this genre,” Allen mused. “I just feel like it's a really interesting thing to do when you're trying to tackle a new genre and you just pick the biggest song in that genre to cover. I mean, you do, Beyoncé, and she literally does. Or is she doing Dolly?'
Allen continued: “The front cover is her in a cowboy hat, riding a horse. She wore a blonde wig and a cowboy hat [at the Grammys]. It's a little bit about challenging those institutions that have so far dismissed Beyoncé as the icon and institution that she is.”
Azealia Banks and Lily Allen's history runs deep, as it has in the past argued in 2013 while engaging in a Twitter beef that ended with Banks dissing Allen's ex-husband Sam Cooper, saying he looked like a “thumb.”
Regardless of any criticism, Beyoncé galloped to No. 1 country album — the eighth of her career — with Cowboy Carter It topped the Billboard 200 with 407,000 equivalent albums earned in the U.S. in the week ending April 4, according to Luminate.
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