Azealia Banks / Lana Del Rey Feud

Overview

Azealia Banks / Lana Del Rey Feud refers to an online argument between musicians Azealia Banks and Lana Del Rey after Banks took issue with Del Rey's criticism of Kanye West's support of Donald Trump.

Background

On September 30th, 2018, Lana Del Rey responded to a since-deleted Instagram post by Kanye West in which he was seen wearing a Make America Great Again hat. She said West's Trump support was a "loss for the culture" and that he only related to Trump on the basis of "Delusions of grandeur" and "extreme narcissism" (screenshot shown below).

After the comment was pointed out to Banks on Twitter, she stated she believed Del Rey was attacking West in order to appear as an ally because he was a weakened target (shown below). She also accused Lana Del Rey of hypocrisy for collaborating with rapper ASAP Rocky who was accused of assaulting women, accused her of not having the guts to challenge Banks herself because of the social dynamics between white women and black women, and demanded she apologized to Kanye for lumping him in with Trump's alleged history of sexual assault.^[1]

Developments

On October 9th, Lana Del Rey responded to Banks' statement in a series of tweets in which she threatened to fight her.

Banks responded by insulting Lana Del Rey's looks, plastic surgery, and suggesting that she use semen to fix her skin (shown below).

As the feud continued, Banks suggested she would get her lawyer involved, and Lana responded that her threat was "a promise."^[2]

Much of the Twitter response to the feud found support for Lana Del Rey and mockery of Banks' new line of soaps. For example, Twitter user @oldfordfocus gained over 80 retweets with their tweet about the event (shown below, left). User @KeithKaraoke gained over 170 retweets and 680 likes saying "The black delegation would like to trade Azalea Banks for Lana Del Rey." (shown below, right).

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