Music star Grimes, who shares three kids with Elon Musk from their four-year relationship, went into detail last month about her protracted custody battle with president-elect Trump’s new best friend.

Now she’s back in the news claiming that it wasn’t Elon that ended the relationship between them, it was her. It all came to light after fellow pop star Azealia Banks took issue with Grimes’s response to a tweet of a photoshopped picture of the two of them as Glinda and Elphaba from the hit movie Wicked.

Grimes’s response was actually pretty light-hearted:

Hate to say it but wouldve been kinda lit

— 𝖦𝗋𝗂𝗆𝖾𝗌 ⏳ (@Grimezsz) December 25, 2024

But Banks was NOT having it, and responded with vitriol too long to even fit in a standard tweet:

“@Grimezsz girl the way u are still trying to hold out on some weird ass innocent bullsh*t years later after u got dumped, cheated on, ur kids kidnapped and still trying to paint me like the villian and act like ur above me when ur getting sonned by elons secretary , -when ur the one that *literally* did not make the fucking music and Elon is the one who harvested ur eggs and took a picture of your c section is PEAK white female delusion. Get over urself ho. The n*gga has like four new kids and ur really a lame. Sis. U can really quit mentioning me. I know you wish you could be my bestie but b*tch….. it’s f*cking boring as hell. Let it go.”

Goodness! I know that’s hard to parse unless you speak that language, but I think you can get from context that Azealia Banks: Doesn’t like Grimes; thinks it’s a woman’s fault if she gets cheated on or can’t afford to fight the world’s richest man for custody of their kids; thinks that Grimes is somehow obsessed with her because she wishes they were friends; and is tired of having to think about her.

That’s a shame, honestly. Grimes — whose real name is Claire Boucher — seems pretty nice. Also, I’m kind of partial to anyone who dumps Elon Musk.

Banks went on for some time with even more nastiness, until Grimes finally tweeted back:

“It’s just a funny joke bro. not trying to paint u as a villain. i didn’t ‘get dumped’. I bounced. My amazing baby is asleep in my bed beside me, I’m in love. no regrets. Life is as beautiful as u want it to be. Ur insanely talented. even after all this, I want u to win. god bless Mlady”

It’s just a funny joke bro. not trying to paint u as a villain.

i didn’t “get dumped”. I bounced. My amazing baby is asleep in my bed beside me, I’m in love. no regrets. Life is as beautiful as u want it to be.

Ur insanely talented. even after all this, I want u to…

— 𝖦𝗋𝗂𝗆𝖾𝗌 ⏳ (@Grimezsz) December 26, 2024

The feud between the two has been going for six years now, since Banks claimed via Instagram that Grimes had invited her to Musk’s home in LA to collaborate on music. It seems as though it didn’t go well, because Banks compared her stay at Musk’s home to the horror movie Get Out.

Grimes reignited the feud in 2021, when she released a song “about having to defeat Azealia Banks when she tried to destroy my life.” Banks fired back again, saying “Grimes definitely has some psychosexual obsession with me. I think it’s bitterness ’cause she doesn’t have the musical capacity I have. ‘Everything she does is out of pretentiousness and it comes out like that … while everything I do is out of natural swag and geniusness.”

In other news, I’m pretty sure “geniusness” is not a word (at least according to the little red squiggle I’m ignoring while I write this), and that if it were, geniuses wouldn’t use it to describe themselves.

The custody battle between Grimes and the head of the new Department of Government Efficiency was resolved, according to the Travis County judge overseeing the Texas case. We’re still not sure what the living arrangements are for their two sons X Æ A-Xii and Techno Mechanicus or their daughter Exa Dark Sideræl, but Grimes’s response to Banks at the beginning of the exchange seemed to be indicating that at least one of the three was with her at home as she was typing.

For the record, Elon Musk says (despite lengthy evidence to the contrary) that he’s never met Azealia Banks, so we know he lies about that too.