Azealia Banks slams Beyoncé’s ‘Cowboy Carter’ as “white women cosplay”

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Azealia Banks has criticised Beyoncé’s ‘Cowboy Carter’ as being “white women cosplay”.Beyoncé announced that she would be turning her sights to a country direction last year, and recently shared the cover and title of her upcoming album, ‘Cowboy Carter’.However, rapper Azealia Banks isn’t too happy about the finished product, and has taken to social media to slam the ‘Love On Top’ singer as being in “white woman cosplay”.

It also comes after she claimed the singer is “setting herself up to be ridiculed” by venturing into the country genre.Writing on Instagram stories, Banks first took aim at Beyoncé for the album’s title, writing: “Wow we didn’t even try to put even a little effort into a more artistic title?”She then shared her issues with the cover and overall aesthetic of the LP, saying that she was “ashamed” at how the singer “switch[ed] from baobab trees and black parade to this literal pick me stuff.” The comments refer to the Grammy Award-winning single from The Lion King: The Gift soundtrack, which Beyoncé executive produced back in 2019.Later, she went on to accuse Bey of “reinforcing the false rhetoric that country music is a post civil war white art form” and “subsequently reinforcing the idea that there is no racism, segregation, slavery, violence, theft, massacres, plagues, manifest destiny craziness that form the bedrock of epithets like ‘proud to be an American,’ or ‘god bless the usa.’”Azealia has quite a bit to say about Cowboy Carter lol pic.twitter.com/66oAIIDQyK— Ichigo Niggasake (@SomaKazima) March 20, 2024To wrap it up, she also brought up Beyoncé’s appearance at the 2016 CMA Awards when she performed alongside The Chicks (then called The Dixie Chicks).“[You] do lame stuff like bring out some black.