Posted by Azealia Banks’ reputation for wild social media posts and controversial takes on everyone from Kanye West and Boosie Badazz to Dave Chappelle and DaBaby has been overshadowing her musical output for years. Now, the “212” rapper is back with another inflammatory post — this time about current rap.
On Wednesday (April 27), Banks took her thoughts to Instagram where she wrote, “Hip Hop audiences are so ghetto and backwards sometime [eye roll emoji]. We need an intellectual glow up fucking pronto. We cannot be this addicted to/excited about such run of the mill human shit.
“Knowing that most MEN and WOMEN IN THE ENTERTAINMENT INDUSTRY will exchange sexual favors for job opportunities is not news. The difference is: these white actors who are sucking dick for lead roles aren’t shooting and killing one another!!!”
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Clearly just getting warmed up, Azealia Banks then shared a pair of audio clips to her account and further decried the industry.
“Like yo, that’s fucking pitiful,” she said. “Honestly, whoever these Hip Hop pundits are, whatever. Don’t write articles about nothing else until you can figure out to get these rappers to stop fucking dying. It’s ridiculous. It’s the only genre of music where this happens, and people are capitalizing off it. I don’t want to hear shit out y’all n-ggas mouth […] I love being 30 ’cause everything just makes fucking sense to me.”
She added, “This Hip Hop murder shit really has to fucking stop. It’s not fun. It has to stop. It’s not fun. It’s not gangsta, it’s not cool, it’s like, it’s ruining fucking everything. Sometimes I don’t even want to fucking make music. Like what am I even a part of? Like what the fuck am I a part of? All these guys do is make my fucking life miserable, you know, suck each other’s fucking dicks and kill each other. This shit is not fab. I don’t care. This shit’s not right. But really, like I have to look back on the last 10 years and all these fucking n-ggas in Hip Hop come out to talk shit.”
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Fans could be hearing from Banks even more now that Elon Musk returned her Twitter account for the first time since 2020. Banks thanked the Space X billionaire for acquiring the social media giant but also told him “not to fuck it up.” Check out the post below.
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