Azealia Banks made a startling and emotional claim on social media that her neighbor pulled a gun on her on Wednesday (February 5).
In a series of Instagram videos, Banks claimed her neighbor came to her door at 6:30 am and pulled a gun on her. The reason for the incident was not explained. The visibly-shaken rapper cried for help from her fans as she spoke about the incident even becoming hysterical at points in the videos.
Initially, Banks was going to call the police about the matter but felt her race would play a factor in the police’s response, considering she lives in a mostly-white neighborhood.
“If I call the cops, I don’t know what the cops are gonna do. I don’t know what white people will do,” said the rapper. “I’m like the only black girl on this fucking street.”
Banks recently made headlines in December for announcing her retirement from music while teasing new music. It was the second time in months she had made the statement. She made a similar claim in June before releasing her Yung Rapunxel sequel Yung Rapunxel Pt. 2 in September.
Check out a series of Instagram messages from Azealia Banks after the initial videos.
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Who?????
We don’t care
I like Azealia, but she’s gotta get off the weed.
You mean meth/crack? Weed should/would make her NOT want to act like that
Asks for help, still manages to turn it into race bait.
Too bad she wasn’t shot. Let’s start a go fund me for her hero of a neighbor!
nice grill
*realizes they’re braces
The fucccccck???
She probably was being her normal crazy ass self, wilding out threatening someone etc. dude pulled out a gun like “I’ll shoot your Ru Paul looking ass.” Then she hopped on the gram to order a whaaamburger with some French cries. Dial nine whaan whaan. Get a whaanmbulance out here for this “lady.”
She tends to get into situations with white folks so much that I’m beginning to think, that her being racist towards whites is what starts these situations.
Whatever the real story behind this is, you can be fully sure that the neighbour was justified in pulling a gun on this lunatic.
Again she’s being terrorized by white folk . When i read this shit i thought it was Groundhog Day. We had the Russell Crowe incident, then she claimed a white guy anally r-a-p-e-d her. Now this. Yet a-fuckin-gain evil whitey persecuting this innocent african american woman. She’s the female equivalent of Jussie Smollett i swear.
So a neighbor pulls a gun on you and you go on social media ? Huh. Am I missing something. Even if you don’t like the police you should report it and put it on the record. Why do I get the feeling there is more to this. If she’s not careful she will end up like the boy that cried wolf. In the end nobody will believe her.
AB is a piece of work! One minute cussing people out, now begging & yelling for help?
Why is she living alone? 6AM who opens their door? You in fear call 911, where’s the rest of this story?
Loud music at 6am regardless of race folks are going to react negatively
Tearless AB is doing too much and really needs to calm down/sober up.
NY cold, grey, she should get a dog, roommate.
When I see her videos pleading for help I knew for instance it was no joke. She can be unpredictable at times (as a fan of hers I already knew but I’m cool with it), but no matter how controversial she is to public, Azealia deserved to be protected. I’m glad that the fans of hers came up to her just to comfort her and letting her know that everything’s alright now. Shows how fully devoted these fans are to her. I’ll definitely hoping the neighbor who pull a trigger on her will be captured and the situation will be clear off soon. Make all the jokes you want about her or me hating or whatever. As tactfully as I can say, just chew these over, especially you vocal posters saying I’m being a douchebag being concern about her well-being. I really hope you wouldn’t have something like this happen to you because if it does, you better pray hard that people around you won’t invalidate your feelings for being violated. Regards.