By: Amira Lawson
It all started with one tweet. A tweet from a fan that compared Ari Lennox and Teyana Taylor to rottweilers that rubbed the “Break Me Off singer” the wrong way.
“Ari Lennox and Teyana Taylor’s ability to have dangerously high sex appeal while simultaneously looking like rottweilers will always amaze me,” the tweet read.
Following the tweet, Lennox took to her Instagram live to address the comment. “I’m not with that shit at all. How people hate black people so much, how black people can sit up here and say, ‘That’s not my problem.’ Or, ‘She does look like a rottweiler,’” she began. “You wanna talk about how people are so sensitive they want us to cancel freedom of speech. Why is this your speech? Why are you so comfortable tearing down black women?”
The Joe Budden Podcast has stepped in to give their two cents on the situation continuing to be known for its unfiltered discussions, covering hot topics.
“Does anything about the Ari Lennox thing scream insecurity to you?” Joe asked. “Insecurity. How you feel about you versus how what people feel about you versus how what people feel about you does to how you feel about you. Insecurity. And while there may be variations of it or different reasons of why it stems, insecurity is insecurity.”
Budden believes the singer’s decision to respond to a fraud twitter account to a negative comment about her, indicated that she was insecure.
“So when I hear you reply to people like whoever this pawn dude is, it’s like, are you telling me how beautiful the blackness is, or are you telling you, 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 [this person] has anything to say, then what we really doing here? How do you really feel about you?”
– Joe Budden on Episode 310 of the Joe Budden Podcast
To end off his commentary on Lennox, Budden asked the singer to not hold all black men accountable for the actions of the Twitter account. “That dude don’t speak for all black men. Stop using idiots to represent us, if you love blackness so much, cause some black men are offended by it.”
