Azealia Banks and Matty Healy are two individuals you need to keep away from pissing off on social media. Final week, the 2 shit-talking musicians pissed one another off on social media, leading to a fairly gnarly alternate during which the 1975 bandleader threatened some offline violence. In a put up made earlier than he deactivated his X account, Healy apologized for saying he’d slap Banks over some disparaging remarks she made about him, his pals, and his fianceé.
He adopted up with a message on the 1975’s subreddit, writing partly:
I actually let myself down. I’ve labored so laborious to maneuver previous these impulsive self damaging and truthfully fairly unstable outbursts I’ve. I’m always making bother for myself for no purpose, I come again to social media after depressive episodes (which is NOT an excuse) as a result of I usually grow to be sober, in order an addict after I’m not utilizing I choose up social media my new manner of ‘consuming’ and altering how I really feel. I simply really feel dreadful about how I acted violent – I feel Azealia and all apparent flawed individuals all deep down have a coronary heart and I hate that I’ve contributed to her psychological fragility. She’s a human. This cultural discourse has grow to be so violent usually. I don’t wanna act like I remorse who I’m or who’ve been. However Tbh at this level I really feel gross even having stated something unfavourable ever about something – if it’s contributed to this tradition. I’m not right here saying this cos I really feel bullied and scared. I’m embarrassed man. And I’m unhappy.
Banks wasn’t happy with that assertion, mentioning some disconcerting issues Healy has stated about Black girls prior to now and persevering with to put up about him on X. Now, the rapper has despatched Healy a cease-and-desist over these on-line threats.
Banks shared the letter to her social media in the present day, during which her lawyer calls for a “immediate public apology” from Healy, in addition to $1 million in damages. The letter continues:
Your assaults towards my consumer’s skilled status, your overt racial epithets, and your most up-to-date threats of bodily violence towards my consumer have been well-documented because you printed them worldwide on-line (my consumer saved screenshots previous to you deleting your posts), and your assaults have now been republished in quite a few press articles all through the world. Furthermore, your removing of the damaging assault posts (beneath your on-line pseudonym “Truman Black”) and your acknowledgement that your response was inappropriate doesn’t undo the harm, however slightly constitutes proof of an act of contrition by you.
Upon data and perception, though you have no idea my consumer personally and my consumer doesn’t know you, you acted deliberately with the particular goal of inflicting my consumer to be shocked, distressed and emotionally injured together with your assaults by menace of imminent bodily hurt. Your overt racial epithets (e.g., calling her a “rat”) and repeated threats of violence towards my consumer represent cyber harassment and cyber bullying and violate varied Federal and state legal guidelines. See, e.g., 18 U.S.C. §2261A, 18 U.S.C. §875, New York Penal Code §120.15. Your threats of violence have brought on my consumer excessive emotional misery. Because of your important affect as a public determine, you could have an obligation to keep away from reckless statements which have now raised critical concern that your followers could also be incited to behave upon your posts and commit an act of violence towards my consumer. As well as, your publication of false and defamatory statements about my consumer and her enterprise (e.g., referring to her as a “failure”) constitutes slander, libel and enterprise defamation per se in violation of varied Federal and State legal guidelines. As well as, your actions are more likely to intrude with my consumer’s ongoing skilled profession which constitutes tortious interference, and is a blatant violation of quite a few different enterprise statutes. Your repetitive wrongful, dangerous religion and malicious actions have significantly broken and can proceed to break my consumer.
See the put up beneath.
— Azealia Banks (@azealiaslacewig) December 8, 2024