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What is up with all these celebrities hating each other? Why can't they all just agree to coexist happily and peacefully? I guess that's asking too much, though, because rappers T.I. and Azealia Banks are currently getting into it, and man, is it ugly.
This issue is really only a big dea because Azealia Banks has beef with (read is jealous of) T.I.'s protege Iggy Azalea. The whole thing goes back to 2012, when Iggy made the XXL Freshmen cover instead of Azealia. Yawn. Anyway, this new issue started June 16 when T.I.'s new single "No Mediocre," which features Iggy, dropped. In a tweet that's now been deleted from her timeline, Banks wrote
T.I. didn't respond to that, so Ms. I Like Starting Drama Banks took to Twitter again on June 17, writing
The n***a shouting bad b*****s this bad b*****s that, is almost always at home with some busted bumpkin.
She went further and further saying "[his] wife can't read" and "...has meth face." She also tweeted about an encounter with the rap game's resident troubleman:
I saw you backstage at Kanye and you had nothing to say. I stood next to you ON PURPOSE. To see if you would say something.
But that still wasn't enough. She added:
I'm taller than you in my heels...come see me n***a. And come by yourself.
Tiny indirectly responded, posting this photo to her Instagram:
All of that seemed to be the final straw for T.I., because he took to Instagram and posted the most scathing, vulgar, hilarious comeback I have ever seen:
U musty-mouthed-thot-bot-bad-body-syphillis-lipped-rectum-vomit-unimportant-ugggggly-monstrosity-of-a-maggot-ass-BIIIIIIITCCHHHH!!!!!! If u speak ill of my family again...I WILL END YOU!!!!!! #OnPHIL #OnDOE #NoBuuulllshit people fall down stairs daily... U better watch yo step, u ungly-ass Gremlin-baby #nerveofdisCretin #f**kouttahea
Ms. Banks tweeted this morning (because what else would she do?) that she would be suing T.I. for his threats.
I'm Team Tip on this one. I actually love him, unapologetically. And okay, obviously, he had no business saying that he would end her or saying any of that fufu about people falling down the stairs, but other than that, he's completely justified in my eyes. Azealia Banks is acting like a little bitch in this situation, honestly. She instigated this whole entire issue, and now that she's provoked him to the point where he took a stand (isn't that what she wanted?), she's gonna run off to her lawyer like a little baby. I don't understand her thought process at all...anyone who knows anything about T.I. knows that he is one of the greatest rapper dads out there, all about his family, and he will stop at nothing to defend them.
Azealia Banks, let me give you some advice, okay? Hop off. Seriously. You're only embarrassing yourself. Hell, I'm actually embarrassed for you. You already look like a fool, so why not just quit while you're (not really) ahead? Yeah? Okay. Nice talk, Azealia.