Azealia Banks disses 'Lemonade,' says Beyoncé is a 'thief'

"She's not a "sister" she's a poacher. She's a thief."
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Azealia Banks is not sipping the Lemonade Beyoncé gave the world. 

The rapper sent out a slew of tweets on Monday, dissing Bey's sixth album, particularly because of the singer's "sad black female sufferance" and usage of religious imagery, including references to Yoruba goddess Oshun. 

Initially, Banks was excited about the video, calling it "amazing" and praising it for witchcraft imagery. 


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But things took a turn yesterday. 















Here are her initial tweets where she praised Beyoncé for the video.




In the meantime, Banks has also released a new video for track "The Big Big Beat." You can watch it below. 


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Yohana Desta was the senior film reporter for Mashable. She is a Northern Virginia native and an American University grad. She enjoys carefully curating her Instagram account and can often be found reading books, going to concerts, watching movies and learning way too much about pop culture.

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