Kendrick Lamar created an uproar after the release of a feature article that was published in Billboard magazine. When asked about Iggy Azalea, Lamar defended the female rapper who has been accused of appropriating Black culture.
However, Lamar’s comments on Ferguson created the most controversy. When asked about Ferguson, Lamar said, “I wish somebody would look in our neighborhood knowing that it’s already a situation, mentally, where it’s f—— up. What happened to Michael Brown should’ve never happened. Never. But when we don’t have respect for ourselves, how do we expect them to respect us? It stats from within. Don’t start with just a rally, don’t start from looting, it starts from within.”
Banks fired back at Lamar’s comment via Twitter by writing, “That’s the dumbest s— I’ve ever heard a Black man say. How dare you open your face to a white publication and tell them that we don’t respect ourselves. Speak for your f—— self.”
Here are other tweets by Banks.
There are things in society that benefit a select few of us. fine…. But don’t put down the rest by saying they don’t respect themselves
— AZEALIA BANKS (@AZEALIABANKS) January 9, 2015
There are things in society that benefit a select few of us. fine…. But don’t put down the rest by saying they don’t respect themselves — AZEALIA BANKS (@AZEALIABANKS) January 9, 2015
Once on the side of feeling like black people ain’t shit because that’s what America and my social studies textbooks taught me
— AZEALIA BANKS (@AZEALIABANKS) January 9, 2015
The black community will NEVER be able to “fix” itself so long as we’re living within white means and by white devices. — AZEALIA BANKS (@AZEALIABANKS) January 9, 2015
So long as the social studies textbook bangs into you all the stories of why you CANT….. you will never be able.
— AZEALIA BANKS (@AZEALIABANKS) January 9, 2015
