Azealia Banks has entered the conversation surrounding the beef between Ice Spice and her now-former friend Cleotrapa.
As previously reported, Cleo made a five-part TikTok earlier this week alleging that the “Munch” hitmaker had mistreated her on her Y2K! Tour.
Among other things, she said that Ice promised she’d be taken care of and that ended up being far from the truth – to the point she was denied proper accommodations like a dressing room and even food.
After Ice’s manager spoke out in a series of since-deleted tweets that blamed Cleo and her team, Banks took to X as well to side with the up-and-coming rapper.
“I don’t like how everyone is trying to make cleotrapa look,” she began. “Any fucking who @iamcleotrapa will be performing with me on Halloween Oct 31. at @Terminal5NYC. She will – be paid, have her own space to glam, whatever she wants on her rider.. because i have fucking respect & class.”
She continued: “She can have 50 different styles of chicken salads. It’s whatever she desires.”
She also wasn’t a fan of Ice’s manager, James Rosemond Jr., speaking out.
“Ice spices manager is a bird ass nigga 4 trying to add insult to injury when a young girl is expressing how she feels. He’s trying to make cleo look like an amateur when the fact that he’s even chiming in at all is ghetto, low class and a huge sign of having zero skin in the game. How about he get his artist some filler for those smile lines, she’s aging like fucking milk.”
I don’t like how everyone is trying to make cleotrapa look.
Any fucking who @iamcleotrapa will be performing with me on Halloween Oct 31. at @Terminal5NYC. She will – be paid, have her own space to glam, whatever she wants on her rider.. because i have fucking respect & class.— Azealia Banks (@CHEAPYXOMIAMI) September 4, 2024
She can have 50 different styles of chicken salads. It’s whatever she desires. https://t.co/mQKo8mULTk
— Azealia Banks (@CHEAPYXOMIAMI) September 4, 2024
Ice spices manager is a bird ass nigga 4 trying to add insult to injury when a young girl is expressing how she feels. He’s trying to make cleo look like an amateur when the fact that he’s even chiming in at all is ghetto, low class and a huge sign of having zero skin in the game
— Azealia Banks (@CHEAPYXOMIAMI) September 4, 2024
How about he get his artist some filler for those smile lines, she’s aging like fucking milk.
— Azealia Banks (@CHEAPYXOMIAMI) September 4, 2024
💋 https://t.co/DaLQEpmILw
— Cleotrapa 💋 (@iamcleotrapa) September 4, 2024
In her original video set, Cleo said she eventually confronted Ice about her grievances, after which point she was further ostracized from the Y2K! rapper, including being denied access to Ice’s dressing room and told to change in a bathroom.
Cleo further claimed that the tour production team told her that she wasn’t in the budget and refused to pay for a chicken salad.
“This girl was really mad at me for saying something about that luggage,” she added. “She don’t want nobody to say nothing to her. She tried to lowkey torture me.”
The New Yorker suspects that she was asked to join Ice Spice on tour simply to “clean up” the rapper’s image following her previous spat with former friend Baby Storme.
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After Cleotrapa’s lengthy rant went viral, Ice Spice hopped on X Spaces to address the allegations.
“Crashing out is sad, you guys,” she said. “The scary part of fame, honestly, is the moment that somebody feels like they can no longer use your platform or they’re not getting exactly what they want out of a situation the way that they want it. That’s when they decide to crash out every single time. I’m noticing a pattern.
“This shit is sad because I genuinely was trying to help her […] What had actually happened is that we added another tour bus so I was like, ‘Now we have extra room, we have extra bunks.’ So I was like, ‘Oh, let me see if Cleo wants to come so she can do her songs.’ But that’s what the fuck I get for trying to be a good person.”
The 24-year-old also accused Cleo of deliberately omitting “so many” positive details about her tour experience, including them having fun together at an amusement park.
