Cardi B Claps Back at Azealia Banks for ‘Illiterate, Untalented’ Comments — Then Leaves Social Media

Author: Dave Quinn / Source: PEOPLE.com

Cardi B has deleted her Instagram account and gone private on Twitter, but not before clapping back at fellow rapper Azealia Banks.

The 25-year-old “Bodak Yellow” songstress — who is expecting a daughter with her fiancé, Migos’ Offset — has left the popular social media networks one day after Banks criticized Cardi B, calling her everything from a “caricature of a black woman” to “an illiterate, untalented rat.

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“Two years ago, the conversation surrounding black women’s culture was really reaching an all-time high,” Banks said during a visit to The Breakfast Club on Friday, tipping her hat to Beyoncé’s 2016 album, Lemonade. “There was just this really, really, really intelligent conversation going on nationally and then everything just kind of changed and then it was like Cardi B.”

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“I’m just talking about this caricature of a black woman that black women themselves would never be able to get away with,” Cardi B continued. “Like, if my spelling and grammar was that bad, I’d be canceled. If Nicki Minaj spelled like that, we would be ragging on her all day.”

In response, Cardi B defended herself in an Instagram comment captured by The Shade Room.

“I’m from the hood,” she said. “I speak how I speak. I am how I am. I did not choose to be famous — people choose me. People followed me on Instagram and the people gave me a platform to introduce my talent. I never asked to be an example or a role model. I don’t want to change my ways because I’m famous. That’s what I just mind my business.

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“This coming from a woman that bleached her skin but wants to be an advocate?” she continued. “Goodbye. I’m not apologizing or killing myself because of who I am.”

That only angered Banks more.

“So because I point out that you get away with being the typical caricature of a black woman that society says is wrong … and you respond by calling me unattractive and bringing up skin bleaching to basically make fun of me for not being light skinned?” she wrote in a series of tweets.

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