Azealia Banks is in the headlines after a calling out Cardi B during an interview on “The Breakfast Club” Friday, May 11. During the interview, Banks took a direct shot at the breakout hip-hop star calling Cardi B an “illiterate, untalented rat.” Banks is unhappy with the way Cardi B portrays herself in the public light and believes there is a double-standard as “black industry men are too hype for this Latina girl.”
“I’m just talking about this caricature of a Black woman that Black women themselves would never be able to get away with,” she elaborated. “Like, if my spelling and grammar was that bad, I’d be canceled. If Nicki Minaj spelled like that, people would just be ragging on her all day. I’ve never seen that at the forefront of female rap. I didn’t know that the bar would be lowered so much. So, it’s kind of like a culture shock.”
Banks, a Harlem native, and Cardi B, a star from the Bronx, have a history of back-and-forth with Banks previously calling Cardi B a “poor man’s Nicki.”
Banks’ comments on Cardi B weren’t the only shots she fired during the interview, either. She had some harsh words for RZA, who she alleged is a cokehead.
“If RZA was smart he should have just shut the f— up,” Banks said. “We have a movie to promote. Who’s gonna wanna see a movie in which the director has slandered the lead actress? Like, what the f— are you thinking? Every time you’re like, calling me to go to the studio, I show up to the studio and you’re f—ing coked out.”
You can check out the full conversation with Charlamagne The God, DJ Envy, and the crew with comments about Cardi B beginning around the 21:40 mark.
