The internet is no stranger to rapper Azealia Banks's wild rants and antics, but her drama with tech mogul Elon Musk and pop singer Grimes has many confused. For those just catching on, here's everything there is to know about the trio's feud.
Banks, 27, claimed on Sunday she spent her weekend alone at Musk's home. She was allegedly there in hopes of collaborating with his girlfriend, Grimes, on a music project. In July, Banks revealed on Twitter that the musical duo's collaboration would be featured on her second studio album, Fantasea II: The Second Wave. Grimes liked Banks's tweet at the time. The pair's recording session, however, appears to have encountered a rough patch.
"Literally been sitting at Elon Musk's house alone for days waiting for Grimes to show up and start these sessions," Banks wrote Monday via her Instagram story. "I have no idea when she is coming back. I'm going to wait one more day then I'm going to go home."
Banks returned to her Instagram story later that day, where the "Anna Wintour" rapper slammed Musk to her 590,000 followers. She equated her experience camping out at the famed entrepreneur's home to "a real-life episode" of Jordan Peele's Get Out.
Banks's accusations didn't stop there. She alleged that the couple, who made their red carpet debut at the Met Gala in May, likely flew her out to Los Angeles to partake in "some weird threesome sex s***."
"I waited around all weekend while Grimes coddled her boyfriend for being too stupid to know not to go on Twitter while on acid," Banks wrote on her Instagram story Sunday. "Then she had the nerve to go and 'book me a first class flight' thru Roc Nation as if she's big enough to send me out to LA."
Speaking with Business Insider via Instagram's direct messaging feature, Banks suggested the pair strung her along. "They bring me out there on the premise that we would hang and make music," Banks said Monday to Business Insider. "But his dumba** kept tweeting and tucked his d*** in between his a** cheeks once shit hit the fan."
The "212" rapper suggested Musk was struggling to find funding for his company. "I saw him in the kitchen tucking his tail in between his legs scrounging for investors to cover his ass after that tweet. He was stressed and red in the face," she said. "He's not cute at all in person."
A spokesperson for Tesla, Musk's car company, informed Jalopnik on Monday that Banks's accusations were "complete nonsense." Musk, however, spoke directly with Gizmodo on Monday, where he claimed he's "never even met [Banks] or communicated with her in any way."
Banks has made bold declarations before. In July, the rapper mocked Wild 'N Out host Nick Cannon over his lupus diagnosis, which he was hospitalized for in 2016. After One Direction alum Zayn Malik was subjected to rude remarks from Banks in 2016, then-14-year-old Disney Channel star Skai Jackson tweeted, "Azealia Banks needs to simmer down a little."
Banks encountered a wave of criticism after she suggested that Jackson should "grow some hips and start ur menses. stay in a child's place."
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