Beyonc Will Remove The Offending Word From The New Song She Co Wrote With Drake

	“The word, not used in an intentionally harmful way, will be replaced,” a Beyoncé spokeswoman wrote in a statement to The Associated Press on Monday.
	The song “Heated,” co-written with Canadian rapper Drake among others, uses the word “spaz,” which is considered a derogatory reference to the medical term spastic diplegia, a form of cerebral palsy.
	Lizzo also removed the word from one of her songs, “Grrrls,” in June after complaints from disability advocates about the lyrics.  Lizzo said in a statement that she never meant to promote derogatory language.
	Disability advocate Hannah Diviney, who pointed to Lizzo’s lyrics as driving change, tweeted that hearing the word used again by Beyoncé “felt like a slap in the face to me, the disability community and the progress we tried to make with Lizzo.”