The "Fancy" artist made it clear on social media she never wants to be referred to as a "Becky" by her fans because she finds the term — sometimes used to describe a generic white woman or "Valley Girl" — just as offensive as calling a black woman "Sha Nay Nay" or an Asian woman "Ming Lee."
"Don't ever call me a Becky," she told a fan on Twitter in the first of many tweets on the matter.
"Generalizing ANY race by calling them one (sic) sterotypical name for said race ... I personally don't think is very cool, the end," she continued.
A slew of followers fired back at Azalea to argue the moniker wasn't racist, and the "Black Widow" performer continued to bite.
"Girl BYE," she replied to one user. "Do you know how many time ppl have called me BECKY? It didn't have any kind of positive intention behind it. Don't start."
She then argued "Becky" was originally used as slang to describe "white women's supposed love" for oral sex.
"To be called a generalized name that gained (sic) populairty as a way to describe oral sex and then generally white women ... no thanks," she wrote.
Among the critics was beau Nick Young, who hours later tweeted "I love my Becky but she be tripping lol."
Azalea didn't respond to the diss but did backtrack on her criticism of "Lemonade," stressing she never called the "Single Ladies" singer a racist.
"No, I dont think Beyonce is racist nor do I think calling someone 'BECKY' is the same as a racial slur. I actually like her and the project," she explained.
Still, Azalea stood firm on not wanting the name directed at her.
"Becky started because you all think white girls just go around slobbing on everyone's d--k. I'm good on being call that and you will all deal because unless you're planning on walking up to me," she added.
Azalea isn't the only rapper who has beef with Beyoncé's cheating anthem. Notorious Twitter ranter Azealia Banks slammed Beyoncé's new album "Lemonade" — in which she seems to hint at husband Jay Z's infidelity — as "the Antithesis of what feminism is" on social media.
"You been singing about this n---a for years and he still playing you," she wrote in a fresh Twitter tirade. "That's not strength that's stupidity."
"You keep crying over a man and perpetuating that sad black female sufferance and it's Not good for what we're trying to accomplish here," she continued.
Beyoncé's impassioned fan base, the Beyhive, has been buzzing about the term since Saturday, when she appeared to declare in a new song “Sorry” that her beau "better call Becky with the good hair."
Many speculated she was referring to fashion designer Rachel Roy after the stylist — who has previously been linked to Jay Z — captioned an Instagram photo, "Good hair don't care, but we will take good lighting, for selfies, or self truths, always" shortly after the song dropped.
Others questioned whether the subject of the song was British pop star Rita Ora, who wore a lemon-inspired swimsuit and a "J" necklace on Snapchat earlier in the week.
Both Roy and Ora have since denied the rumors.
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