Never one to avoid speaking her mind, Azealia Banks has taken to Instagram to implore Lil Nas X and Tyler, the Creator to become a “power couple”.
“I really think Tyler the creator and lil nas x should get over their obsession with broke white bussy and become a power couple,” she wrote in a statement on Instagram this weekend (April 7). “It would be way more monumental to see to [sic] young black gay men as an item. Even just for aesthetic reasons. The idea of spending the extra hardly earned black male dollars on some cheap white buss is extra whack.”
She continued her argument below the image in a very, very long caption, in which she argued that Lil Nas X should stop working with “weird white creative directors who obviously have no point of references of respect for the nuance, sheer musical opulence and political groundwork laid out for him to inherit.”
In a seemingly unrelated digression, she also took aim at the music industry for celebrating sex traffickers “being celebrated for their masculinity and heralded as black inspirations when their [sic] all just drug/ sex addicts who SUCK Each others [sic] dick, then murder one another with no remorse then have sooooo much to say about police violence, meanwhile being the ones destroying the community.”
The question is, will Lil Nas X and Tyler the Creator take Banks’ advice? Their reaction was mixed. Tyler replied to her post on Instagram, saying simply: “lmfao what the hell.” Maybe Azealia’s advice needed more time to sink in…
As for Lil Nas X, an alleged screenshot that purports to show him replying, in a since-deleted tweet, with “Azealia Banks is right! Me and Tyler SHOULD fuck!” While it does seem like his style of humour, we could not verify the authenticity of this tweet. Still, maybe this could be the beginning of a beautiful romance.
