Speaking in an episode of 'The Joe Budden Podcast', the rapper-turned-podcast host says that he doesn't understand why the 'Shea Butter Baby' singer is upset by the diss.
- Jan 8, 2020
AceShowbiz - Joe Budden is weighing on Ari Lennox's latest meltdown on Twitter. The singer recently took to the blue bird app to hit back at haters who said that she and Teyana Taylor looked like "rottweilers." Joe, meanwhile, thought that Arie was just being insecure.
Speaking in the latest episode of "The Joe Budden Podcast", the rapper-turned-podcast host said that he didn't understand why the "Shea Butter Baby" singer was upset she became nor some of the points the singer made publicly.
The discussion started by co-host Mal, saying that people put too much stock into the comment section and that Ari gave that troll too much power. Joe agreed, "Does anything about the Ari Lennnox speal screams insecurity to you?"
Fellow co-host Rory Farrell, meanwhile, pointed out that the attack was at an alarming rate. However, Joe kept questioning Ari's confidence because of her meltdown. "What I take from that is, Ari, I'm hearing you, a black queen, speak to the beauty and essence of black queens. I've heard you speak to it before," he began.
"So when I hear you reply to people like whoever this dude is, it's like, are you telling me how beautiful the blackness is, or are you telling you," he said. "Because if you truly feel like that, if you truly believe that black is beautiful, as beautiful as it is, and you embody that, you will not use your energy, your platform, your power … when you negate that power or misuse it by replying to just whatever [person] has anything to say, then what we really doing here? How do you really feel about you?"
Earlier this month, Ari responded to a Twitter user who dissed her look. "Ari Lennox and Teyana Taylor's ability to have dangerously high sex appeal while simultaneously looking like rottweilers will always amaze me," read the comment, to which Ari replied, "People hate blackness so bad."
She later shared a PSA in a separate tweet, "Moms and Dads please love on your beautiful black children. Tell them they're beautiful constantly. Tell them Black people are beautiful. Tell them black features are beautiful."
