After Kanye West’s ‘Demonic’ Insult, Lizzo says she’s ‘Minding My Fat, Black, Beautiful Business’
After Kanye West insulted her weight in a Fox News interview, Lizzo jokingly asked the audience at her Toronto concert if she could stay in Canada
Lizzo has no time for her haters.
The Grammy Award winner, 34, appeared to reference Kanye West’s recent jab at her weight as she spoke out against people insulting her “for no mother—ing reason” during her Friday concert in Toronto, according to a video obtained by TMZ.
“I feel like everybody in America got my mother—ing name in their mother—ing mouth for no mother—ing reason. I’m minding my fat, Black, beautiful business!” Lizzo said in the clip.
She reportedly asked the audience if she could seek asylum in the Great White North and even attempted to locate a Canadian spouse for dual citizenship, which elicited cheers and amusement.
Lizzo had earlier gotten some lingering vitriol from Ye, 45, during one of the ugly diatribes in his recent controversial sit-down on Fox News’s Tucker Carlson Tonight, which delivered several other troubling utterances.
“When Lizzo loses 10 pounds and announces it, the bots — that’s a term for like telemarketer callers on Instagram — they attack her for losing weight because the media wants to put out a perception that being overweight is the new goal when it’s actually unhealthy,” he said.
“Let’s get aside the fact of whether it’s fashion and vogue, which is not. Or if someone thinks is attractive, to each his own,” West added. “It’s actually clinically unhealthy, and for people to, to promote that… it’s demonic.”
When Carlson, 53, asked why those body types are supposedly perpetuated, West responded: “It’s a genocide of the Black race. They want to kill us in any way they can.”
West’s Instagram account was restricted this week after he made antisemitic comments; he then migrated to Twitter, where another post was removed due to further hateful rhetoric directed at Jewish people.
Lizzo is no stranger to body-shaming from industry guys, having recently experienced some underhanded comments about her weight from comedian Aries Spears, who earlier claimed in an interview that she “looks like the s— emoji.”
“And now, for bitches who have something to say about me in the press,” she stated onstage at the MTV Video Music Awards in August, referencing Nicki Minaj’s virtually identical 2015 VMAs opening. “What do you think? I will not be silent.”
“They be like, ‘Lizzo why don’t you clap back? Why don’t you clap back?’ ‘Cause, bitch, I’m winning, h––!,” Lizzo said. “Big bitch is winning, h––! Best revenge is your paper, bitch!”
The next day, Lizzo wrote on Twitter: “Lemme make one thing VERY clear— I wasn’t addressing anybody in my speech last night.. I was addressing EVERYBODY.”