Lizzo Calls Azealia Banks Calling Her Fat ‘Endearing’

Azealia Banks went with ‘Fat Lizzo.’ Lizzo said she loves it. This is where we are.

Lizzo has responded to Azealia Banks repeatedly calling her “Fat Lizzo” on X, and her take was not exactly what Banks was going for. “I like when azealia banks calls me ‘fat lizzo,'” Lizzo posted on X. “It’s endearing.”

Banks did not take the diplomatic response as a cue to stop. She continued with a series of posts, including suggestions that Lizzo should sell her new album alongside a Wendy’s Biggie Bag, commentary about Lizzo’s physique, and a reference to GLP-1 weight loss drugs that Lizzo’s trainer has publicly denied she uses. Banks, it seems, was not short on material.

A fan also jumped into the exchange suggesting that Lizzo had only posted about Banks in order to generate attention for her album. Banks seemed to agree with that read of the situation, which did not prevent either of them from continuing.

The back-and-forth follows a moment Lizzo had the day before, when she posted a video of herself dancing in a sheer dress and called out what she described as a fat-phobic algorithm for suppressing her content. TMZ first reported the full exchange between the two artists, including Banks’s more colorful entries in the thread.

Banks and Lizzo have a history of friction that stretches back several years. Lizzo’s approach this time, essentially absorbing the insult and reframing it as a compliment, is a different play than engaging point-for-point, which has not historically worked out well for anyone who tries it with Banks on social media.