Rapper Lizzo appeared to criticize Kanye West's comments about obesity during a Friday concert in Toronto, Canada.
"I feel like everybody in America got my motherf---ing name in their motherf---ing mouth for no motherf---ing reason," said Lizzo during her concert at Scotiabank Arena. "I’m minding my fat, black, beautiful business!" Lizzo continued before jokingly asking, "Can I stay here? Who can I marry for that dual citizenship?"
Lizzo appeared to reference West's comments about the rapper during his Friday interview with Fox News' Tucker Carlson.
"When Lizzo loses 10 pounds and announces it, the bots … on Instagram, they attack her losing weight, because the media wants to put out a perception that being overweight is the new goal when it’s actually unhealthy," West said regarding his experience using Instagram and social media alike. It’s demonic."
On Sunday, West was restricted from his Instagram account following a seemingly anti-Semitic post featuring a text conversation between himself and fellow rapper Sean Combs, who uses the stage name P. Diddy. West said to Combs in a now-deleted post, "This ain’t a game, Ima use you as an example to show the Jewish people that told you to call me that no one can threaten or influence me.”
"Look at this Mark How you gone kick me off instagram," said West in a Twitter post reacting to his attempted cancellation following his Instagram post. "Who you think created cancel culture?" West followed up in a later post.
"Welcome back to Twitter, my friend!" said Tesla CEO Elon Musk noting West's absence from the platform since November 2020.
Along with his Instagram restriction, West received backlash after for wearing a "White Lives Matter" shirt with the Daily Wire's Candace Owens last week.
Late last month Lizzo, who, is a classically trained flutist, visited the United States Library of Congress (LOC) and toured the Music Division's flute vault, per current librarian Carla Hayden's invitation on Twitter. The LOC posted a series of updates featuring the rapper playing what appeared to be James Madison's crystal flute gifted to him by French aristocrat Claude Laurent upon his second presidential inauguration. However, the instrument was reportedly a similarly designed plexiglass, according to the LOC.
Upon Lizzo's request, the LOC allowed the rapper to briefly play Madison's flute during a performance in Washington D.C. the following Tuesday. The flute was escorted onstage for Lizzo by Library curator Carol Lynn Ward-Bamford and Music Division staff.
"It’s crystal, it’s like playing out of a wine glass!" said the rapper as the audience cheered. Lizzo trilled the flute briefly while appearing to twerk before returning the flute to Ward-Bamford.
"B---- I just twerked and played James Madison’s crystal flute from the 1800s,” the performer said. “We just made history tonight."
