AAVE trends as Beyoncé changes lyrics

Discussions about the black community and AAVE (African American English) were trending topics the following Tuesday morning. beyonce Removed the word “spaz” from her song.

.@beyonce‘s “RENAISSANCE” has surpassed 200 million plays on Spotify. It will be her fastest album to accomplish this. pic.twitter.com/tGQ7DmSuMB

— Beyoncé Charts (@beycharts) August 2, 2022

received by beyonce backlash After “Renaissance” she used the word “spas”, which was seen as a slander for disabled people by the disabled community and people in the UK, so it was removed. In the track titled “Heated,” a mother of four says, “Sp*zzin’ on that a**, sp*z on that a**.” She recently changed the lyric to “blow up”.

People on Twitter created a discussion centered around AAVE and the black community. Some people said the artist should not have changed her AAVE. Because in the black community and in the United States, this is a verb, not a noun, not a slur.

People discuss AAVE in relation to Ableist terminology

One person tweeted:

AAVE is not “internet talk” or “Gen Z language”, it is literally how I talk to people. Most of the time, non-black pocks who use AAVE are not only speaking imaginary black English, but they are neither pronounced nor grammatically correct.

— CRAISHON 🌙 (@theonlycraishon) August 2, 2022

Another said:

It says that disabled black Americans are literally slanderous. The word does not come from his AAVE and its connotations are always negative. Why is it a sacred word to act like this? https://t.co/TgIR9dawd4

— African Auntie (@The_ninety8) August 2, 2022

someone else added:

There are black people with disabilities. Yes, black people are held to unreasonably high standards. But that doesn’t make the concern any less valid. Spaz is a capable slur. Please stop trying to keep everything out of her AAVE because you don’t want to understand the intersection. https://t.co/bAH5bLICcG

— Future Tracy Ellis Ross Type Aunt™ (@femmesnfilms) August 2, 2022

One person also expressed:

The noun may be offensive, but the verb form is literally away from AAVE. Everyone and their moms come to call us the n-word, but here everyone comes to monitor our speech. plug. Obviously you’re not using slurs.

— Baby Meri 🇯🇲 (@Melani_Amber) August 2, 2022

Another person added:

The white disabled community needs to stand up against racism.

As a black woman with a disability, I have seen Lizzo, Beyoncé, and black female artists targeted and accused of disabilityism. The same criticism is not reserved for white artists who use competent language. https://t.co/edhuxiLu3T

— Ola Ojewumi (@Olas_Truth) August 1, 2022

Lizzo gets backlash for using Ableist terminology

Come to think of it, Riso too changed The lyrics of the song after receiving backlash for using the same word. On the track “Grrrl’s”, Lizzo says: However, she changed the song to “Do you see this/Hug me”.

She issued an apology to her fans, part of which she said:

It was discovered that the new song “GRRRLS” contains harmful words. Just one thing to be clear, I don’t mean to promote derogatory language. As a fat black woman in America, I have used many hurtful words against me.

Rooms, what do you think of this?