Azealia Banks isn’t exactly one to keep her opinions to herself – as her beef with Iggy Azalea shows – and she was at it again over the weekend when she got into it with Eastenders’ actress Alison Newman over comments she made towards the LGBT community.
It all started when Azealia tweeted the following comment, which has since been deleted:
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Which resulted in Alison Newman replying to a tweet for Charlie Condou, which led to the following exchange which very quickly escalated (sorry about the doubles and replies in here but they were tweeting each other so much it was hard to keep a track):
Has @AZEALIABANKS deleted this? "LGBT community are like the gay white KKK's. Get some pink hoods and unicorns and rally down rodeo drive"
— Charlie Condou (@Charliecondou) September 27, 2015
@alisonnewman Botox those frown lines. Juvederm those lips. Get a tan. YIKES!
— AZEALIABANKS (@AZEALIABANKS) September 27, 2015
@alisonnewman you're confused. You've allowed gay men to convince you that u owe them respect while they refer to you as fish and cunt.
— AZEALIABANKS (@AZEALIABANKS) September 27, 2015
I didn't know who this woman was but on responding to the wonderful @Charliecondou I received this. She's charming! https://t.co/79wzTnmHhM
— Alison Newman (@alisonnewman) September 27, 2015
And for the record. I'm 47 yrs old. I love my frown lines & my skinny lips. Most of my wrinkles are from laughing. And Botox is poison.
— Alison Newman (@alisonnewman) September 27, 2015
@finkowska @alisonnewman you guys can handle TEN HARD INCHES OF COCK, call a woman a cunt, yet can't take the word f*****t LOLOL
— AZEALIABANKS (@AZEALIABANKS) September 27, 2015
@AZEALIABANKS @finkowska They don't.
— Alison Newman (@alisonnewman) September 27, 2015
@alisonnewman are their feelings more important than ours? Why do they deserve respect that they don't give us?
— AZEALIABANKS (@AZEALIABANKS) September 27, 2015
@alisonnewman @finkowska "she's so slutty" "oh yeah she's a hoe" "yaaaas bitch" "fucking cunt" the list in endless.
— AZEALIABANKS (@AZEALIABANKS) September 27, 2015
@alisonnewman @finkowska have you ever seen an episode of rupaul drag race? Or been the only girl at the gay bar? THEY DO.
— AZEALIABANKS (@AZEALIABANKS) September 27, 2015
@alisonnewman I don't have one. At all. The gay community is asking me for respect that they are not willing to reciprocate. Point blank
— AZEALIABANKS (@AZEALIABANKS) September 27, 2015
@alisonnewman If I have to stop using derogatory language to refer to gay men. Then they must give me the same courtesy. Simple.
— AZEALIABANKS (@AZEALIABANKS) September 27, 2015
@alisonnewman no shame on YOU. You're cowering to male pressure and forgetting that respect is a two way thing.
— AZEALIABANKS (@AZEALIABANKS) September 27, 2015
@alisonnewman shame on you for putting the wants of MEN above your own self worth. Shame on you.
— AZEALIABANKS (@AZEALIABANKS) September 27, 2015
@alisonnewman you can allow them to refer to you however they want. They have you to degrade. They don't need to degrade me too.
— AZEALIABANKS (@AZEALIABANKS) September 27, 2015
Alison then went quiet on the matter, but Azealia banks didn’t let it lie, returning to insult her again a few hours later, as well as attempting to justify her opinions:
If I am to be a part of an LGBT community I want to be in it with people who aren't so weak or so easily moved ya know.
— AZEALIABANKS (@AZEALIABANKS) September 28, 2015
What is eastenders and what "star" from there did I feud with? I only listen to rinse fm and the jazz station. don't watch tv. Help please?
— AZEALIABANKS (@AZEALIABANKS) September 28, 2015
Who is this Random Black Girl? (She's a beauty
) and this DECREPIT FACED white woman? (Yuck) ……… pic.twitter.com/JO8NLzGYW8
— AZEALIABANKS (@AZEALIABANKS) September 28, 2015
) and this DECREPIT FACED white woman? (Yuck) ……… This woman from "eastenders" looks like she's aged in Dog Years …. WTF?!?!
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— AZEALIABANKS (@AZEALIABANKS) September 28, 2015
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Nice one. The fact that she continued to relentlessly target Alison Newman – who didn’t really even say anything even a quarter as insulting to her – just makes her look like the idiot ghetto rapper that she probably is.
However dumb this was though, it wasn’t as stupid as the time C-list footballers Leon Knight and Jamie O’Hara got in beef about the latter’s girlfriend via Twitter. Sometimes I’m so glad it was invented.