Azealia Banks to Grimes: ‘Go Back to Canada B*tch’

Azealia Banks is resurrecting her beef with Grimes after the musician sat down for an interview that circulated on social media.

In the clip from her TIME interview, Grimes decried the decline of religion in Western culture. Banks retweeted the clip and responded, “Go back to Canada bitch.” She continued, “You’re not a fucking American. I think you obviously being on speed and Elon on K with custody of children is very bad and dangerous. Dumb bitch.”

In a follow-up tweet, she continued to insult the musician, with whom she had clashed frequently in the past. “She has such an ugly nose,” she wrote. “Bitch wanna make racial jokes with that big ass ugly Slavic fucking nose. Chop it off hoe.”

In 2018, Banks alleged that she waited at Elon Musk’s home for days waiting for Grimes to show up so they could work on music together. She went on to suggest that she was likely only flown out to Los Angeles by Grimes to stay at Musk’s house for “some weird threesome sex shit.” She continued to hurl insults at Grimes, who later wrote a song that she said was about when Banks “tried to destroy my life.”

While the issues between the two have been quieter in the years that followed, the two had another clash in December 2024 when Grimes reposted an AI-generated photo of her as Glinda and Banks as Elphaba. The rapper took aim at Grimes’ personal life, particularly her custody battle with her former partner Elon Musk. The bizarre exchange concluded with Grimes admitting that she did once, as Banks famously once said, “smell like a roll of nickels” because she had shell casings in her purse.