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Cousins!
Unfortunately it appears that Kelis ain’t the only one with a bone to pick following the release of Beyoncé ‘s renaissance album, seeing how it appears that folks stumbled across an “offensive” song lyric that has social media in an uproar!
According to Variety, Bey’s song “Heat” co-written by Drake features the lyric “Spazzin’ on that a**, spazz on that a**.” Apparently the term is a derogatory word used for spastic diplegia, described as a form of cerebral palsy, which ultimately makes it difficult for people to control certain muscles.
As of Monday afternoon a spokesperson for Bey stated, “The word, not used intentionally in a harmful way, will be replaced.”
From the looks of things Beyoncé wasn’t the only Texas girl to run into this issue as also Lizzo also used the offensive term in her song ‘Grrls’
(“I’m a spaz / I’m about to knock somebody out”). Writer and disability advocate, Hannah Diviney, tweeted at Lizzo, explaining “your new song makes me pretty angry + sad.”
Lizzo released a statement in saying, “Let me make one thing clear: I never want to promote derogatory language. As a fat Black woman in America, I’ve had many hurtful words used against me so I [understand] the power words can have (whether intentionally or in my case, unintentionally),”
