Azealia Banks, 32, is reacting to Lizzo, 35, wanting to quit the music industry due to constant criticism. The NYC rapper asks the Houston-raised singer-rapper, “Why are you playing victim when you gave the public a license to laugh at and with you?”
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As we previously shared, Lizzo, born Melissa Viviane Jefferson, seemingly announced that she was giving up on her music career and leaving the industry, claiming, “I’m constantly up against lies being told about me.” In a cryptic message shared on her Instagram on Friday afternoon (March 29), Lizzo told her fans she is tired of being criticized and laughed at.
She wrote, “I’m getting tired of putting up with being dragged by everyone in my life and on the internet. All I want is to make music and make people happy and help the world be a little better than how I found it. But I’m starting to feel like the world doesn’t want me in it. I’m constantly up against lies being told about me for clout & views… being the butt of the joke every single time because of how I look… my character being picked apart by people who don’t know me and disrespecting my name. I didn’t sign up for this sh*t. I QUIT.”
Lizzo’s announcement arrives after shocking allegations and harassment lawsuits were filed against her last year by three former dancers, Crystal Williams, Noelle Rodriguez, and Arianna Davis. They accused the singer of discrimination and creating a “hostile work environment,” but the singer has already denied those allegations and has requested for a judge to toss the lawsuit out. However, Lizzo’s post also arrives just one day after the lawyer for her three ex-dancers slammed “shameful” President Joe Biden for allowing the singer to perform at his $25 million Radio City fundraiser on Thursday (March 28).
The dancers’ lawyer, Ron Zambrano, told NewsNation, “It’s shameful that Lizzo would be chosen to headline an event like this amid such egregious allegations. Without getting into the politics, I can’t imagine why anyone would want Lizzo representing them in any way given her reprehensible behavior. It’s just a terrible look.”
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Following Lizzo’s recent announcement, Azealia Banks, who has criticized the “Juice” singer in the past and later apologized, is back with some more constructive advice. Taking to Instagram, Banks said, “I took back my criticism of you because it definitely clicked in my mind that I definitely wasn’t getting my point about the ways in which insidious people in corporate culture [were] positioning you to push demeaning initiatives, but sis…. Your handle is ‘Lizzo Be Eating,’ …. You’ve definitely given the public [a] license to laugh at and with you by twerking at the Burger King counter and bathing in a tub of Skittles.”
Azealia Banks continued to tell Lizzo, “Self-deprecation was certainly the aesthetic you chose to introduce yourself with. So, I don’t see why you’d play victim, rather than just stop intentionally inviting people to make jokes about that. You’re a beautiful girl, with a handle on music theory, Grammy awards, and tons of success. Just change the narrative and go high-brow Philharmonic on these h*es and collab with Ryuichi Sakamoto.”
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