Dear Ms. Banks

Bob the Drag Queen throws epic shade at Azealia Banks in new diss track

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Thought the Azealia Banks / RuPaul drama had reached peak output? Think again. Again.

Just to recap: Banks cried foul on RuPaul‘s song, “Call Me Mother,” off his album, American, claiming the beat was ripped off from her 2016 single, “The Big Big Beat.”

Here are the two tracks back-to-back:

The album was reportedly pulled from Spotify while the matter was investigated, but was returned to the streaming service within a couple of days.

That prompted a series of tweets from Banks in which she said of Ru:

“I’m disappointed in him first and foremost as a black person. He was supposed to have my back … But he went with popular white gay sentiment and felt like I was disposable enough to steal from and discard. F*ck him.”

But apparently, she wasn’t quite finished. On Monday, Banks took to Twitter again:

Now, Bob the Drag Queen is weighing in on the controversy.

“I know I’m about a day late, but I wanted to take a minute to weigh in on this Azealia Banks ‘The Big Big Beat’ / ‘Call Me Mother’ controversy because it’s actually a conversation much larger than those two songs,” Bob says in a new vlog posted to his YouTube channel yesterday.

He continues:

Something that’s quite common in queer black culture is that our culture is so underground and has roots that are hard to trace so people like to come in and co-opt ideas from black queer culture and act like it’s their own idea. Now [these songs are] house music. House music didn’t start with Azealia Banks. House music is from the early ‘80s in Chicago when disco was fading out but you still needed something to dance to. So people — groups like Future or Frankie Knuckles — would make these amazing tracks that really caught on. So in the black queer community in Chicago it became huge and big and expansive.

Then Bob turns his focus directly to Azealia Banks.

“Azealia Amanda Banks from Harlem, New York,” he says. “Listen, since you’re so interested in co-opting black queer culture and propagating it as your own, I think it’s time to drag you deep into the miasma of one of black queer culture’s greatest traditions: reading.”

That’s when the music starts Bob proceeds to give Banks a piece of his mind.

Watch.

Related: You thought the Azealia Banks / RuPaul drama was all played out? Think again.

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