Azealia Banks hates fat white Americans, disses Kayne, Lorde & Pharrell
Azealia Banks covers the April issue of Playboy. The shoot was done by Ellen Von Unwerth, and it’s actually kind of fun to look at if you disregard a terrified looking cat. I thought the cat might be fake, but it poses differently in a few shots. Poor kitty looks spooked. You can see the full NSFW shoot here. I’ve talked about Banks before in a roundabout way, which is usually the best way to refer to her. Usually you can find a ton of insulting slurs all over her Twitter page, but Banks’ management grabbed the reins until April. A wise move.
Banks is beyond epic in her troll-like ways. She regularly expresses anti-Semitic views and contempt for homosexual men (which is odd since she openly identifies as bisexual). Every so often, she speaks a kernal of truth about the hip-hop industry (see her Hot 97 interview). But she always ruins any valid message with hateful rants and button pushing. She even lamented the downfall of “father figure BILL COSBY.” This is the sort of behavior that killed two record contracts.
Here are some Playboy excerpts. This is some scrolldown WTF:
Her type of guy: “I love older men. The things in an older man’s house are better—his furniture, even his knives and his pots. And they smell better. Young guys, they may skip a shower and sh*t like that.”
Her career dreams: “The race thing always comes up, but I want to get there being very black and proud and boisterous about it. You get what I mean? A lot of times when you’re a black woman and you’re proud, that’s why people don’t like you. In American society, the game is to be a nonthreatening black person. That’s why you have Pharrell or Kendrick Lamar saying, ‘How can we expect people to respect us if we don’t respect ourselves?’ He’s playing that nonthreatening black man sh*t, and that gets all the white soccer moms going, ‘We love him.’ Even Kanye West plays a little bit of that game–‘Please accept me, white world.’ Jay Z hasn’t played any of those games, and that’s what I like.”
Why people don’t like her: “It’s always about race. Lorde can run her mouth and talk sh*t about all these other bitches, but y’all aren’t saying she’s angry. If I have something to say, I get pushed into the corner. Because y’all motherf***ers still owe me reparations! That’s why it’s still about race. Really, the generational effects of Jim Crow and poverty linger on. As long as I have my money, I’m getting the f*** out of here and I’m gonna leave y’all to your own devices.”
On the U.S.: “I hate everything about this country. Like, I hate fat white Americans. All the people who are crunched into the middle of America, the real fat and meat of America, are these racist conservative white people who live on their farms. Those little teenage girls who work at Kmart and have a racist grandma–that’s really America.”
She’s always been this way: “We had journals in second grade. I went to PS 166, on 88th Street and Columbus Avenue, and we had a teacher I could not stand. The black kids got in trouble all the time. We were loud or whatever, but whenever she told a white kid to quiet down and they did, she’d be like, whatever. But if she told a black kid to quiet down and one of them sucked their teeth, she’d put them in the corner. I wrote in the journal one day, ‘I cannot stand this white bitch teacher. F*** this white bitch.’ She found my journal and called my mother, who was embarrassed, because my mother used to say stuff like that–‘White people are of the devil. Stay away from them.’ That teacher was scared of me after that.”
[From Playboy]
Banks also rants about why athiests suck (something about God and calculators, which makes no sense). She says she doesn’t sleep around but not because because she doesn’t want to. She admits to turning off men by ranting about the injustices of life, and they flee. She’s fine with that because she doesn’t want to catch VD.
Banks wants us to think she’s playing that game where she makes us uncomfortable and shakes up our version of reality, but all she does is pick fights. She doesn’t get why people don’t take her statements seriously when she talks about “the issues.” She wonders why people respect Q-Tip and not her? Well … for starters. Q-Tip expresses himself without drama. He doesn’t toss around slurs. He doesn’t insult people. Whereas Banks doesn’t discuss, she attacks. Troll is a troll.
Photos courtesy of Ellen Von Unwerth/Playboy & WENN
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