{"id":138670,"date":"2025-03-02T10:30:32","date_gmt":"2025-03-02T18:30:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/?p=138670"},"modified":"2025-03-02T10:30:32","modified_gmt":"2025-03-02T18:30:32","slug":"azealia-banks-vs-blackpinks-lisa-online-drama-over-garbage-k-pop-claims-from-the-rapper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/azealia-banks-vs-blackpinks-lisa-online-drama-over-garbage-k-pop-claims-from-the-rapper\/","title":{"rendered":"\u00a0Azealia Banks vs. BLACKPINK\u2019s Lisa? Online drama over \u201cgarbage K-pop\u201d claims from the rapper"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Azealia Banks<\/strong> has stepped into the spotlight yet again for comments toward <strong>BLACKPINK\u2019s Lisa<\/strong>. On March 1, a fan asked the rapper what she thought about Lisa\u2019s brand-new album, \u201c<strong>Alter Ego<\/strong>.\u201d She then simply responded, \u201c<em><strong>I don\u2019t listen to k-pop<\/strong><\/em>,\u201d stirring chatter, especially given that Lisa isn\u2019t Korean but Thai, and that her album is entirely in English.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-pullquote\">\n        <blockquote hcb-fetch-image-from=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/azealiaslacewig\/status\/1895648775626244560?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1895648775626244560%7Ctwgr%5E8750c9aed2291a4d879b96832af7563ae2b53ebe%7Ctwcon%5Es1_c10&amp;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.pinkvilla.com%2Fentertainment%2Fwas-blackpinks-lisas-alter-ego-album-called-garbage-k-pop-by-azealia-banks-fans-call-out-racism-1375296\" class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">I don\u2019t listen to kpop <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/nzd25MvqyO\">https:\/\/t.co\/nzd25MvqyO<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; AZEALIA BANKS (@iiwasinthee212) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/iiwasinthee212\/status\/1895648775626244560?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">March 1, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n        <\/figure>\n        \n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>But Banks has never been shy about sharing controversial opinions. Over the years, she\u2019s famously had feuds with everyone from pop stars to hip-hop artists, leading fans to accuse her of doing it for fame.\u00a0 Most recently, she also called out luxury fashion houses for allegedly prioritizing K-pop idols over hip-hop artists, calling them<em> <strong>\u201cgarbage k-pop stars.\u201d<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-pullquote\">\n        <blockquote hcb-fetch-image-from=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/azealiaslacewig\/status\/1895664216046215420?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1895664216046215420%7Ctwgr%5E8750c9aed2291a4d879b96832af7563ae2b53ebe%7Ctwcon%5Es1_c10&amp;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.pinkvilla.com%2Fentertainment%2Fwas-blackpinks-lisas-alter-ego-album-called-garbage-k-pop-by-azealia-banks-fans-call-out-racism-1375296\" class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Sidebar: how the fuck are all these garbage k-pop stars getting all this love from notoriously racist European fashion houses before the plethora of hiphop artists who have been showing love, driving their sales and immortalizing them in song for the last three decades?<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; AZEALIA BANKS (@iiwasinthee212) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/iiwasinthee212\/status\/1895664216046215420?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">March 1, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n        <\/figure>\n        \n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Fans quickly jumped online to defend Lisa, calling the dismissal of her album and her nationality a <strong>racial issue<\/strong>. And while the controversy hasn\u2019t escalated to the point of Banks posting more tweets, it is highly unlikely that she\u2019ll apologize or tone down on her comments, as she has never done so in past online feuds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Azealia Banks has stepped into the spotlight yet again for comments toward BLACKPINK\u2019s Lisa. On March 1, a fan asked the rapper what she thought about Lisa\u2019s brand-new album, \u201cAlter Ego.\u201d She then simply responded, \u201cI don\u2019t listen to k-pop,\u201d stirring chatter, especially given that Lisa isn\u2019t Korean but Thai, and that her album is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3104,"featured_media":138671,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2386,2264,16],"tags":[17,954],"tmauthors":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-138670","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"category-entertainment","9":"category-kpop","10":"tag-blackpink","11":"tag-lisa"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138670","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3104"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=138670"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138670\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/138671"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=138670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=138670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=138670"},{"taxonomy":"tmauthors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tmauthors?post=138670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}