Azealia Banks Calls M.I.A. Anti-Black

Just a few months after squashing her beef with Iggy Azalea, Azealia Banks has aimed her merciless Twitter fingers at another musician. This time, M.I.A. is the target. On Tuesday (Aug. 29), Banks took the time to tweet some criticism of M.I.A., whom she claims is anti-Black.

“Mia be lowkey trying to take credit for black culture and the shit is annoying. She’s like clearly quite anti-black,” she tweeted. “I don’t get her points a lot of the time it’s like she came up in hip-hop then wants to be like what about my people but tries to discredit. It’s always like why do you care about blacks and not Indians when blacks took this from my culture. She stay trying to compare struggles. When it’s like honey… just spit your rhyme.”

These tweets come just a few days after M.I.A. uploaded an Instagram post about potentially being discredited because of her affiliation with super-producer Diplo. “It’s important you don’t see me as a Iil thing diplo discovered because I’m a brown woman,” she wrote about her former collaborator and ex-boyfriend. “And this is the first story of a brown female musician who smashed it for the first time . That didn’t happen because I accidentally walked passed diplo.”

With that in mind, it appears Banks' tweets came in response to M.I.A.'s Instagram post. These tweets came the same day she announced her tour dates for the rest of 2017. You can check those out below. Peep the gallery with her tweets about M.I.A. below that.

Azealia Banks 2017 Tour Dates

Oct. 3 — Grand Rapids, Mich. — The Intersection
Oct. 4 — Chicago, Ill. — Concord Music Hall
Oct. 5 — Detroit, Mich. — St. Andrew’s Hall
Oct. 8 — Toronto, Ontario — The Opera House
Oct. 10 — Baltimore, Md. — Ram’s Head Live
Oct. 11 — Norfolk, Va. — The Norva
Oct. 12 — Wilmington, N.C. — The Muse
Oct. 14 — Atlanta, Ga. — Masquerade
Oct. 15 — Jacksonville, Fla. — Mavericks Live
Oct. 17 — New Orleans, La. — Tipitina’s
Oct. 18 — Houston, Texas — Warehouse Live
Oct. 20 — Dallas, Texas — Gas Monkey
Oct. 21 — Austin, Texas — Empire Control Room
Oct. 23 — El Paso, Texas — Tricky Falls
Oct. 24 — Phoenix, Ariz. — The Van Buren
Oct. 25 — Las Vegas, Nev. — Brooklyn Bowl
Oct. 26 — Reno, Nev. — Cargo
Oct. 28 — San Francisco, Calif. — Mezzanine

Azealia Banks Says M.I.A. Is Anti-Black