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Azealia Banks is known more nowadays from her spats with celebs than she is her music.

And the latest target from the rapper is Lizzo.

After learning that Lizzo has reached number one on the Billboard Hot 100 with Truth Hurts – only the fifth black female solo artist after Beyonce, Rihanna, Janelle Monae and Cardi B to do so this decade – Azealia decided to rip into the 31-year-old on Instagram.

The 28-year-old claimed that Lizzo – real name Melissa Jefferson – is ‘making a fool out of herself’ and becoming a ‘mammy’ – a stereotype of a black woman who worked for a white family, rooted in the history of slavery.

Azealia went off on Instagram, writing: ‘Lmao the fact that the public and the media has been keeping this fat girl joke going for so long is honestly peak boredom. This song is not good, nor is the dumpy fat girl spectacle live set she does. Saddest bit is the girl is legit talented and truly only being allowed to shine so long as she allows herself to be this millenial mammy of sorts…

Azealia claims Lizzo is making a fool of herself (Picture: Matt Sayles/Invision/AP)

‘I honestly just hope this means she took the proverbial mammy L for cupcakke (who she originally stole the shtick from) I would love to see cupcake flourish without the simultaneous lust and disgust Lizzo incites in the public. Queen Latifah was able to represent for larger women without being a disgusting or being a minstrel. So was missy Elliot. Lmao lizzo is really millennial mammy I’m ready for this joke to be over [sic].’

The 212 star then turned on Cardi B, writing: ‘Like illiterate Cardi then fat lizzo. They are really choosing the worst of the black womens crop to advertise America with. This music execs have to realize that this data game is getting bigger than the USA, it’s not about trying the dumb the black American image and people down so obviously and so aggressively after “black lives matter”… Corporations need to realize black America is its only friend and begin to treat it with some love and respect.

‘I guess they saw us moving too fast with it because if you realize after beyonce became political in ways they didn’t like the elite stopped giving her that top top spot and started cycling out these lessers like cardi and lizzo (even LIL nas x trash ass buckbreak mountain anthem) giving them beyonce level accolades while both being no where near the level of black female excellence she is.

Azealia is off on another rant (Picture: Christie Goodwin/Redferns via Getty Images)

‘I dunno, I just think black culture is more than ever being infiltrated by white inventions (algorithms) and the execs (black and white) are complicit with all the social programming they’ve been tasked to do. I understand the body positivity thing but if it were that the most vulgar bits of it wouldn’t be broadcast like that lmfao…

‘Imagine what the rest of the world thinks when they see lizzo jumping around in leotards with cellulite… no one says body positivity – she looks like she is making a fool of her black self for a white American public. Nothing more nothing less… all of this is happening purposely. It’s not because any of these people are talented or deserving lmao it’s just because execs know they are new faces and they won’t “get out of line” so to speak. And when they do, they’ll say and do what the elite want them to do [sic].’

But Azealia wasn’t done with ripping into Lizzo, as she went on to say that Adele is ‘rewarded’ for being ‘fat’ and that she doesn’t think the Grammy award winner can sing.

Azealia doesn’t think Adele can sing (Picture: Phil McCarten/CBS via Getty Images)

Azealia wrote: ‘ Because I’m sorry why didn’t we give jasmine sullivan all of this attention lol?… she was a talented big girl… cause she wasn’t making a fool of herself. Duh. Another parallel is Adele… fat Adele gets to be fat, white, do a bootleg mahalia jackson impression and take over but lizzo gotta jump around and act stupid to get half the attention while she has more talent than white Adele… lmfao I can’t stand Adele white ass.

‘White people really reward her for being fat because I really don’t think she can sing. Jessie J is eating Adele’s fandoon anyday but adele plays that fat white girl pity up so hard… after this they better let Lizzo be a big star without having to do all the extra s*** cause the girl is legitimately talented sans the bruno mars throw away tracks [sic].’

Unsurprisingly, this rant has gone down like a lead balloon.

One person tweeted: ‘Azealia Banks is upset that a fat femme black woman is doing well in the charts’, while another added: ‘She can NEVER make a point without tearing someone completely down.’

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And just like that Lizzo, Cardi and Adele have joined Azealia’s list of enemies, which includes (deep breath) Zayn Malik, Grimes, Elon Musk, Lana Del Rey, Lady Gaga, Charli XCX, Nicki Minaj, Iggy Azalea, Rita Ora, RuPaul, Diplo, Eminem, Nick Cannon, Wendy Williams, and, er, the populations of Ireland and Sweden.

Oddly, Azealia previously had a row with Cupcakke, but seems to be on her side now that she doesn’t like Lizzo. Life comes at you real fast.

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