Lupe Fiasco was the latest target of Azealia Banks’ internet rage, but he refused to take it lying down.
This was bound to happen sooner or later. In the age of online beefing, Azealia Banks and Lupe Fiasco are two of the most prolific personalities in hip-hop. While they may often struggle to get their music out, their opinions seem to face no such problems. Lately, they’ve been circling each others’ orbits, nearly always coming out on the opposite sides of issues, but never colliding head-on until now.
It all started when Lupe came out in defense of Kendrick Lamar, who Banks was attacking yesterday for his Ferguson opinions (as you can see, it gets hard to keep track of all of her tirades).
— Lupe Fiasco (@LupeFiasco) January 9, 2015
Banks clearly saw this, because a few hours later, she hit Lupe with a little something out of the blue:
@LupeFiasco you still haven’t made a decent song since i was 17
— AZEALIA BANKS (@AZEALIABANKS) January 10, 2015
Lupe then responded by dragging up one of Banks’ old tweets, in which she claimed that he influenced her rapping early on. He kept posting it with different pictures that responded to and/or mocked Banks’ prior responses.
@LupeFiasco you are still kanye’s exman’sanem
— AZEALIA BANKS (@AZEALIABANKS) January 10, 2015
@LupeFiasco I’ll still steal your flows LOL…. i bet i’ll make more money off them than you can LOL
— AZEALIA BANKS (@AZEALIABANKS) January 10, 2015
@LupeFiasco Hear me??? I will STILL steal your flows, your soul and everything you are worth. Don’t fuck with me asshole.
— AZEALIA BANKS (@AZEALIABANKS) January 10, 2015
Huh? “@AZEALIABANKS: i used to steal so many Lupe Fiasco flows when i first started rapping haha. I love him!!” pic.twitter.com/KPehH79L9f
— Lupe Fiasco (@LupeFiasco) January 10, 2015
@LupeFiasco LUPE….. you’re not even a real rapper anymore.. ur that black guy who used to hang with kanye. hussshhhhh
— AZEALIA BANKS (@AZEALIABANKS) January 10, 2015
What??? “@AZEALIABANKS: i used to steal so many Lupe Fiasco flows when i first started rapping haha. I love him!!” pic.twitter.com/JkMo2b1j79
— Lupe Fiasco (@LupeFiasco) January 10, 2015
Wait… “@AZEALIABANKS: i used to steal so many Lupe Fiasco flows when i first started rapping haha. I love him!!” pic.twitter.com/zklHgYofGj
— Lupe Fiasco (@LupeFiasco) January 10, 2015
But… “@AZEALIABANKS: i used to steal so many Lupe Fiasco flows when i first started rapping haha. I love him!!” pic.twitter.com/genL65ArUt
— Lupe Fiasco (@LupeFiasco) January 10, 2015
That’s… “@AZEALIABANKS: i used to steal so many Lupe Fiasco flows when i first started rapping haha. I love him!!” pic.twitter.com/VAO5MD7JJh
— Lupe Fiasco (@LupeFiasco) January 10, 2015
@LupeFiasco When kanye stepped away from you, you had no legs to stand on….. it’s over.
— AZEALIA BANKS (@AZEALIABANKS) January 10, 2015
I dont.. “@AZEALIABANKS: i used to steal so many Lupe Fiasco flows when i first started rapping haha. I love him!!” pic.twitter.com/8eKNKryzAz
— Lupe Fiasco (@LupeFiasco) January 10, 2015
@LupeFiasco you don’t even book shows. shhhhhhh.
— AZEALIA BANKS (@AZEALIABANKS) January 10, 2015
Then… “@AZEALIABANKS: i used to steal so many Lupe Fiasco flows when i first started rapping haha. I love him!!” pic.twitter.com/OBO9vCRBjx
— Lupe Fiasco (@LupeFiasco) January 10, 2015
Who?? “@AZEALIABANKS: i used to steal so many Lupe Fiasco flows when i first started rapping haha. I love him!!” pic.twitter.com/WvnRy2VkP5
— Lupe Fiasco (@LupeFiasco) January 10, 2015
@LupeFiasco Jay-z doesn’t know you silly. lol
— AZEALIA BANKS (@AZEALIABANKS) January 10, 2015
WTF is… “@AZEALIABANKS: i used to steal so many Lupe Fiasco flows when i first started rapping haha. I love him!!” pic.twitter.com/Wa5AiO9tub
— Lupe Fiasco (@LupeFiasco) January 10, 2015
You said “@AZEALIABANKS: i used to steal so many Lupe Fiasco flows when i first started rapping haha. I love him!!” pic.twitter.com/8dXzGsM81s
— Lupe Fiasco (@LupeFiasco) January 10, 2015
@LupeFiasco *used to…. I’ve moved on to Jay-Z flows, there’s way more power and energy in them. BYE BACKPACKRAPPER
— AZEALIA BANKS (@AZEALIABANKS) January 10, 2015
@LupeFiasco LOL UR A DICKRIDER….. LOLOL i hope jay-z sees this and laughs at you!!!!
— AZEALIA BANKS (@AZEALIABANKS) January 10, 2015
@LupeFiasco in australia.. those are white people…. its cultural fetishism… they only like you because your black… not because ur good
— AZEALIA BANKS (@AZEALIABANKS) January 10, 2015
Maybe.. “@AZEALIABANKS: in australia those are white people its cultural fetishism they only like you because ut black not because ur good”
— Lupe Fiasco (@LupeFiasco) January 10, 2015
BUT!!! @AZEALIABANKS pic.twitter.com/s4cnpbrfkT
— Lupe Fiasco (@LupeFiasco) January 10, 2015
With my uncanny cross referencing skills I’d make a great analyst at the CIA… pic.twitter.com/PIC9meKb6C
— Lupe Fiasco (@LupeFiasco) January 10, 2015
That was enough for Banks, who then began chatting it up with supermodel Emily Ratajkowski:
@LupeFiasco I’m onto @emrata being a babe…. it’s dead for you now.
— AZEALIA BANKS (@AZEALIABANKS) January 10, 2015
All in a day’s work for Banks.
