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IGGY AZALEA SLAMS BEYONCE’S ‘BECKY’ LINE AS RACIST IN BITTER STREAM OF TWEETS.

APR 27

POSTED BY: Akatech Solutions | | DATE: April 27, 2016. | Source: Yahoo.

Iggy Azalea is the latest singer to wade into the ‘row’ over the ‘Becky’ line from Beyonce’s newly released album Lemonade.

And she’s added a racial dimension.

In a series of tweets on Monday, the 25-year-old, below, criticised the word for being a negative stereotype of white women.

During Beyonce’s track Sorry, the singer – pictured below with her husband – sings about a cheating lover, prompting many people to assume she was talking about Jay-Z having an affair, and tells him to “call Becky with the good hair”.

But as ‘Becky’ is a phrase that has been known to refer to a generic white woman with straight hair, Azalea got irked.

Azalea tweeted to a fan: ‘Don’t ever call me a Becky’, she tweeted to a fan, before stating that she was criticising the phrase and not Beyonce.

She added: ‘And by the way, this is not Bey shade. I love her and the album. But my name is Iggy, and you will all call me that.’

When another Twitter user pointed out that she used the term herself in her 2012 song I Think She Ready, she defended herself, saying: ‘It was used as a play on brain and brian. You would not be down if I started calling all black men “deshawns”.’

She then tweeted to another user: ‘Girl BYE. Do you know how many time ppl have called me BECKY? It didn’t have any kind of positive intention behind it. Don’t start.

‘Generalising ANY race by calling them one stereotypical name for said race. I personally don’t think is very cool, the end.’