Azealia Banks Reacts To Lizzo Quitting Music Over Bullying: “Your Handle Is Lizzo Be Eating”

Azealia Banks Reacts To Lizzo Quitting Music Over Bullying: “You’ve Given The Public The License To Laugh”

Back in November, Azealia Banks apologized to Lizzo for fat-shaming her, saying if Busta Rhymes can be in the industry without being fat-shamed, so should Lizzo. However, following Lizzo’s recent announcement that she’s quitting music, Banks has more to say.

“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 where positioning you to push demeaning initiatives,” Banks began.

“But sis…… your handle is “lizzo be eating,” …. You’ve definitely given the public license to laugh at and with you by twerking at the Burger King counter and bathing in a tub of skittles… 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.”

 

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“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 hoes and collab with ryuchi sakamoto,” she added.

Fans seem to agree with Banks on her take. “This the nicest thing she’s ever said about anyone that I can recall,” someone commented. “Omg this whole time i read hear handle as lizzo beating,” another person wrote. “Never thought I’d see the day I’d side with this looney toon character,” someone else added.

Over the weekend, Lizzo announced that she’s quitting music. “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,” the 35-year-old wrote in a lengthy post.

“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.” The “Truth Hurts” singer added, “I didn’t sign up for this sh*t. I QUIT.”