Azealia Banks: “White Girls Appropriating Black Culture” Is Corny

    Azealia Banks says that white female R&B acts and White female rappers are corny. 

    “It’ll be like, ‘For a couple of years, we’re gonna fuck with blue-eyed soul, and here’s Duffy, here’s Adele’—who’s great—but now we’ve got a thousand White girls singing blue-eyed Soul,” Azealia Banks says during an interview with Pitchfork. “It’s so regurgitated and corny. You have it in everything. You have it in indie rock. You’ll have Interpol, and then the National, and it’s just like, “Really, dude? Really?

    “Or it’ll be like, ‘We’re gonna pop off the White-girl rapper,’ so we’ll have Gwen Stefani and Fergie, and then it’ll get worse and worse and worse,” continues Banks, whose Broke With Expensive Taste album sold 11,165 copies this week, its first week in stores. “And you’re just like, ‘What the fuck is this?’ The whole trend of White girls appropriating Black culture was so corny—it was more corny than it was offensive. Trust me, I’m not offended: All the things I’m trying to run away from in my Black American experience are all the things that they’re celebrating. So if they fuckin’ want them, have them; if they want to be considered oversexualized and ignorant every time they open their fucking mouth, then fucking take it. But more than that, the art is not good. These songs are not good. It’s like, ‘Oh my God, you’re doing this Black woman impression, is that what the fuck you think of me, bitch? I need to meet the Black woman that you’re imitating because I’ve never met any Black woman who acts that bizarre.’ It’s crazy that this becomes mainstream culture. All of America is celebrating shit like that. It’s so weird.”

    On Monday (November 10), Azealia Banks tweeted in defense of Lana Del Rey while dissing Eminem. The Detroit rapper included the lines, “I’ll punch Lana Del Rey right in the face twice like Ray Rice” in his the “Shady CXVPHER” performance, which was released Monday.

    RELATED: Azealia Banks Disses Eminem Regarding “Shady CXVPHER” Lyrics

    172 thoughts on “Azealia Banks: “White Girls Appropriating Black Culture” Is Corny

      1. Club music/EDM is an extension of 80’s and 90’s R&B. Guess who created R&B? You’ve got to be kidding me. The only music that whites can call their own is so called “classical” music. Blacks are responsible for every single popular form of music in the US. Jazz, Blues, Rock, Samba, Hip Hop, R&B, Soul, EDM are all black influenced.

      2. Derp…. actually todays edm takes influence from House music. Which were popularized in 80s and early 90s by gay African Americans. Look up Frankie Knuckles…

      3. House or club music was created by Blacks LOL! Whites believe they created everything. House comes from the ghettos of Chicago. Techno comes from the ghettos of Detroit. Club music was made in the ghetto for the ghetto, but what happened was, whites got a hold and like usual claimed shit for themselves.

    1. The irony in this is that she is a black girl making white music… Her album doesn’t even sound “black” if you really wanna take it to that type of judgement.

      1. What is White about her music? Hip-House was created by BLACKS! First forms of Dance electronic music was created by Blacks. Nothing on her album sounds “White”, maybe you need to dive into musical history, to find out that what white girls are doing now is emulating Black music as just what she said and it is true. You guys emulate it and steal it, without giving deference. Smarten up.

    2. As an African American, I’m so sick of cultural assimilation. Why can’t whites be happy with just taking rock n roll? We have to start supporting our own people. I laugh when I think about how far whites would have gotten in music without the influence of black culture. You mean to tell me we were enslaved for 400 years, are freed and go on to dominate the sound and influence of American music?!? Just pathetic.

      1. True, white people need to just leave us alone. lol I don’t even like when they talk to me on the street. Like what the fuck??? Let me live.

      2. Rock and Roll essentially was created by Chuck Berry, an African American. Whites have no cultural ties to any modern music made in North America.

      3. ^^^ He never said whites had ties to it. He said whites should be happy that they’ve stolen rock, and call it a day.

      4. The ignorance displayed in your comment is absolutely absurd. Music has this crazy ability to relate to different people in different ways, regardless of skin color – weird, right!? You don’t think a white person has ever lived in a ghetto, or experienced prejudice behavior? Open your blind eyes and look around. Based off your idiotic logic, Jimi Hendrix should’ve never touched a guitar because thats a white person instrument? Are you kidding me? Think about what you say before you open your mouth and let garbage like that spill everywhere. Also, go back in time and hang run dmc for doing a song with ac/dc. Cultural assimilation at its worst, right? Yea, broyou make a hell of a lot of sense.

      5. This is true, most of musical culture today would not exist without Blacks. Country, Jazz, House, Techno, DnB, Jungle, Funk, Disco, Reggae, Dub, RnB, Blues, Rock, Rap, Electro, Trip-Hop, Soul, G-funk, and much more have all been pioneered or heavily influenced by Diaspora Blacks. Next time Whites say we never made anything, they better look at this list LOL! We are not even in Technological and cultural advancements yet LOL!

      6. “Why can’t whites be happy with just taking rock n roll?” – What? You speak like we move as an entire unit, stop being a dickhead. Everyone has the right to CREATE, it’s got nothing to do with RACE. What about that little white girl who lives up your street who has taken a liking to hip-hop and wants to collect Vinyl records and learn how to scratch? Hey? The argument goes round and round, so get the fuck over it.

    3. scarface
      killermike
      lord jamar
      lauryn hill
      azealia banks

      if i forgot anyone add em to the list

      1. How and when did Mike ever show racism/hatred against whites? Dude is honestly on the level with anything he says. I mean he is one of the more open minded rappers out there. Hell he just put out an interview today saying how he doesn’t care what color you are, you should stand up to oppression regardless. And besides that his best friend and closest contributor/cohort in rap is a white man? saying of all the people you ignorantly signaled out (although lord jamar can go fuck himself) that he is some white hating ingrate is totally preposterous. get your facts straight before you flame legitimate artists

    4. white ppl,
      this is not racist, shes not talking bout all white people shes just sayin the truth when most white girls try to act gangsta cuz its the new thing

      1. Seems to me she’s talking about any white female rapper, which is pretty racist. She’s right in that the music is shit, but just being angry over any white chick who’s rapping makes her sound bitter and racist.

    5. This is coming from a female who made a track called “heavy metal and Reflective” the video takes place in the desert with dirt bikes. Now that’s gangster.

    6. I’m white and Azealia is saying the truth. These hoes are so generic, they all look like they are made at the same factory.

      Iggy is straight up wack and her imitating a southern black accent is racist and wack.

      “But more than that, the art is not good. These songs are not good. Its like, ‘Oh my God, youre doing this Black woman impression, is that what the fuck you think of me, bitch? I need to meet the Black woman that youre imitating because Ive never met any Black woman who acts that bizarre.'”
      100% true

    7. Couple of comments/questions?

      She specifically has a problem with white FEMALE rappers – why not hate the men too then? (because they aren’t her competition)?

      What does Gwen Stefani have to do with any of this? For real – she doesn’t do RnB or Rap.

      Also.. why does she assume that being “oversexualized and ignorant” is a black thing. There have been many oversexualized and ignorant pop stars of all races.

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      Why do you need to limit music to a certain race?

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      The only possible legitimate complaint you can have about whitewashing the music industry is when Business Execs motivated by profit only, start making decisions, and decide that a white person is safer or more marketable.

      In general Business Execs taking over and making decisions in such a manner is problematic for everyone; because it leads to boring disingenuous music.

      Young (ignorant or just desperate) women of any color are able to be exploited and overly-sexualized by the record industry and generally the entertainment industry as a whole.

      ——————————————————————————–

      TBH – everyone knows this is basically what happened with Iggy Azalea.

      But – if Azealia Banks truly is against ignorant-oversexualized music – why does she keep acting like she is in a competition with Iggy Azalea?

      All she has to do is make catchy music with a lack of actual content – and she too can start exploiting herself and her own sexuality.

      I mean… Nicki Minaj is still WAY more successful than Iggy.

      ————————————————————————

      She keeps acting like her and Iggy are in a competition – and Iggy is only winning because she is white.

      BUT until she degrades herself to the way Iggy does – she will never be in a competition with her, simply because she is not willing to portray herself in the only way this vapid mainstream culture seems to understand.

      Pop stars being oversexualized is not a problem that any one subculture can claim. Any woman that wants to be a pop star will one day find herself asking how far she is willing to go down that road. That honestly has more to do with Azealia Banks ‘problem.’

      1. gwen stafani’s last 2 albums were pop/rap albums… they have tons features from rappers, hip-hop producers, and she also raps on at least 4 records, trust me my little sister has both albums, I had to drive her to school.

    8. id fuck gwen Stephanie but other than that banks is right. good for her. I love black ppl who speak the truth because it brings out the racist white ppl and they get highly offended when their evil ways and lies are brought to the light.

      1. She may be right in that the songs aren’t good, but how are you going to say “it brings out the racist white people” in regards to her statement when her entire rant was racist in itself?

        She sounds like a bitter ass chick who’s mad at other people’s success.

    9. So does that mean everyone appropriating western culture, such as language, way of life etc have to stop acting like white people, immerse ourselves in our true bloodline defined culture.Azzealia I’d fuck the ugly off yo ass, but you talkin shit like no one on earth isn’t doin the same.blah blah blah blah blah

      Heavy rotation (gangsta ish)
      1.Scarface – The Diary
      2.MC Eiht – We come strapped
      3.Tales from the hood – Soundtrack
      4.Eazy E – Str8 off the streetz of muthaphuccin Compton
      5.Bone – Creepin on ah cum up

    10. Who is this chic, Azealia Banks? I have no idea who she is or what she does, but I just constantly see her making negative comments about other people.

    11. Black people stay crying bout some bullshit about rap man, if you’re so mad go pick up a guitar and learn to play country. How are you so jealous of someone’s success that you try to discredit them like this. Music and culture is open to anyone who is interested in it. White kids grow up listening to rap like the rest of us who love it.

      all I see is frustrated struggling artist

    12. She’s never met a Black woman who acts that bizarre…….Nicki Fucking Minaj…..quit the race hate, it’s just fucking music.

    13. The black population continuing to try and segregate themselves is corny. There is no longer a “black culture”. The black guy born and raised in the suburbs has more in common with the white guy next door than the black guy in the hood or the black people in Africa. You can blame your genes, ancestors, whatever, but ultimately YOU are responsible for your own culture. Too many people are too concerned with “trying to be black” or “trying to be white”, etc. It’s pathetic. Stops being weak and claiming to be a victim of circumstance and make decisions for yourselves.

    14. isnt euro trance and heavy metal that she’s doing pretty white shit? corny… i see the album didn’t really pop off. bitter and racist little girl trying to get the attention aww. she has some points but then she comes off just bitter and mad because her shit isn’t doing too well.

      1. In regards to Heavy metal you have a point . However trance music was heavily pioneered by a number of black DJ’s as it’s precursor was “Detroit Techo” in the 1980s early 90s and the pioneers of this were black DJs like Juan Atkins,Derrick May,Kevin Saunderson anyone who knows about trance would also tell you that the above paved way for what for trance music

    15. “If they want to be considered OVERSEXUALIZED and IGNORANT every time they open their fucking mouth, then fucking take it. But more than that, the ART IS NOT GOOD.”

      Do a google image search of this bitch and you’ll see dozens of pictures of her with her tits hanging out, in thongs, blowing up a comdom, licking her lips, etc. etc. etc.

      Yet you complain that white girl rappers are oversexualizing what they think is black culture.

      Look up her lyrics you’ll find shit like:

      “Get that best dick”
      “Can you let me ride the dick and keep a nipple in your mouth”
      “And I can suck a ten inch cock drier than a raisin”

      Yeah…you don’t know any black female rapper that oversexualizes themselves…..right.

      oh, and her music fucking sucks, so there’s that too.

      1. You just went full retard you clown never go (FULL RETARD ONLINE )

        Control your emotions son.lol

      2. ^Says the over effeminate clown going (FULL RETARD ONLINE ) and it’s all over a click bait article about some 23 year old FEMALE rapper .

        Get a grip you pitiful excuse for a man what a fucking lame you are .LOL

      3. That maggot of a man you called DADDY should have splurted his misfiring sperm all over the back of your slutty moms hair ..Just like I like to do 🙂 Now please put a rope around your neck and kill yourself you will be doing the world a favor

    16. But more than that, the art is not good. These songs are not good.

      1. Who ever told you that your music was any good?! Your music is garbage, matter fact I have not heard one decent track from you!

      Its like, ‘Oh my God, youre doing this Black woman impression, is that what the fuck you think of me, bitch? I need to meet the Black woman that youre imitating because Ive never met any Black woman who acts that bizarre.’

      2. Outside of the ghetto world you come from, there is plenty of black woman acting white and doing all that crazy ish you talking about!

      Point to my point is, stfu make your self relevant before talking about bitches that done sold records and done had a great career (fergie, Gwen Stefani)! You can’t even gets your own career started with your 11k sold albums!

      1. She wasn’t going at “fergie, or Gwen Stefani” if you read the article shes actually saying the complete opposite but you’re angry so do you

    17. You pigskinned Albino reptillian mutant neaderthals with your pink skin and stringy hair are so sickly and leprous that you lay in the Sun and peel like snakes in a sad attempt to gain some color to your albino skin.

      You are a cancer to the planet, Mother Nature doesent even want you on the planet which is why her Sun scorches your skin and your birthrate is below zero.

      Eventually you will be wiped off the planet through miscegenation due to your recessive genes and when you become extinct like your brother Neanderthals the world will celebrate.

      1. What is albinism? What causes albinism

        Albinism is a genetic condition also called achromia, achromasia, or achromatosis.

        It is characterized by a deficit in the production in melanin and by the partial or complete absence of pigment in the skin, hair and eyes.

        This hereditary disease can be found in humans (affecting all races), mammals, birds, fish, reptiles and amphibians.

        Even though it is a hereditary condition, in most cases, there’s no family history of albinism.

        People with albinism often have vision problems and are susceptible to sunburns and skin cancers if they do not protect themselves from direct sunlight.

        According to The National Organization for Albinism and Hypopigmentation, one in every 17,000 people in the Australia has some type of albinism.

      2. You pigskins are easily the most despised sick filthy creatures on the planet which is why you get beheaded by man and mauled by animal.

        The caucasoid or Carcass-Asian is the most wretched of all humanity because of his pig like leprous skin and small pink penis, his shaggy hair resembles a dog and you can even see the sickly veins through his pink skin.

        Like Dee always says “What color is an Albino”…..is that why you so hateful and mad?

        Hahahahahahahah!!!

      3. We live under a system of white supremacy where people who classify themselves as white seek to dominate and subjugate non white people.

        When you learn about Jim Crow laws, Apartheid, segregation, gentrification, eugenics, miscegenation laws, and just racism/white supremacy in general you will come to a better understanding of life on this planet.

      4. ^ You said the same thing on HHDX on the 14/10/2014

        Google –>We live under a system of white supremacy where people who classify themselves as white …. Switch it up obvious (suburban) slow minded troll is an obvious slow minded troll

      5. Google –> We live under a system of white supremacy where people who classify themselves as white ..Same comments same person

        My point has been made little man

      1. If I was a white skinned troll like you I wouldn’t drop educational references for people to do their own research, Caucasians have been using non-Cuacasians in their experiments for centuries, I wouldnt doubt that these wicked Devils would take a virus/germ and experiment with it and modify it untill they have a strain they can use as a biological weapon.

        In Nazi Germany the Caucasions views the Jews as being non-white so they used them as guinea pigs in horrific experiments…go look up Josef Mengele.

        Caucasians used germ warfare to exterminate the Native Americans, they put smallpox in their blankets while they were freezing, an act of genocide.

      2. ^ Didn’t bother reading as you post the same thing every-time don’t you think it’s a bit weird and corny to actually copy and paste the same comment .

        Proof->Google the first part of this weirdos comments and it will come up under the Cam’ron ebola story and the Chris Brown YAWN story . Switch it up (obvious) suburban cornball !!

      3. You really are delusional it’s sad . Nope i’m white and 31 you are white and middle aged with no friends and no respect from your family or friends they just think you are weird and antisocial

    18. The Caucasian has been at war with Africa for centuries, King Leopoldo, Mussolini, Napoleon,
      Cecil Rhodes etc.

      It is highly probable that these Devils are using biological warfare as a means of population control, they tried the same thing with Aids which is a man made disease. They would most likely use fake vaccines and vaccinations to infect people and then experiment on them with pharmaceutical test-drugs.

      Go study the Tuskegee Experiment and check out a documentary called A Hole in My Head.
      Some good books to read are Medical Apartheid and Sentenced to Science.

      The Cuacasian has a long sordid history of acts of genocide against non-Cuacasians and they use us as in medical experiments as guinea pigs.

      If I was a white skinned troll I wouldn’t drop educational references for people to do their own research, Caucasians have been using non-Cuacasians in their experiments for centuries, I wouldnt doubt that these wicked Devils would take a virus/germ and experiment with it and modify it untill they have a strain they can use as a biological weapon.

      In Nazi Germany the Caucasions views the Jews as being non-white so they used them as guinea pigs in horrific experiments…go look up Josef Mengele.

      Caucasians used germ warfare to exterminate the Native Americans, they put smallpox in their blankets while they were freezing, an act of genocide.

      We live under a system of white supremacy where people who classify themselves as white seek to dominate and subjugate non white people.

      When you learn about Jim Crow laws, Apartheid, segregation, gentrification, eugenics, miscegenation laws, and just racism/white supremacy in general you will come to a better understanding of life on this planet.

      Liberia has the highest population growth on the planet, isn’t it ironic that the outbreak is there? A colony of former American slaves who returned to their homeland?

      If the US government can admit they allowed CIA operatives to pump cocaine in the Black community why is it hard to believe that they would use Black people in their medical experiments?

      Look up Dr Boyd Graves and his research on the origin of Aids and then go look up Gary Web. and his book Dark Alliance. Another good book on this evil is Behold a Pale horse by William Cooper.

      1. word life god I thought I found some aids in my cookie crisp this morning…I threw that shit right out fuck a yakub

      2. Some people are too dense to recognize sarcasm. Tell me, what are you doing to help your people or yourself? Are you actually making a difference or are you sitting in front of a computer typing about “white devils” on a hip hop website message board?

    19. she needs to just shut all the way the fuck up…crab ass bitch…she is the definition of a muhfucka that don’t like to see nobody else doing good, which is fucked up considering she aint doing shit her damn self

    20. You know what’s corny in 2014?

      Black women who bitch, complain and throw temper tantrums in order to garner attention. I’ll take White women every single time. Less drama, way more fun.

      1. You know whats corny in 2014 …Single men like you in their 30s trolling from mom’s basement with the same boring and lame comments time after time after time

      2. how do you know his age and relationship status? are you some sort of a hacking stalker or just another cyber therapist?

      3. the funny thing is Must Try Harder is a single man in his 30s using his neighbors wifi trolling the comment section

    21. WHO is this b*tch?!@! Never herad a SONG…. the ONLY time we hear her name is when she is being INSULTING, trying to get noticed by DISSING someone, or showing how IGNORANT she is! Do white people complain when do Rock or Pop, or assimilate successful whites in business, on Wall Street or Madison Avenue? There are GOOD & BAD people of all races & she’s NOT a good look for her race!

      1. Are you serious about other cultures being accepted into ” white ” culture…and they don’t complain about it? Lol… So we are accepted in Rock right? Give me 10 black rock and roll bands/metal bands/ thrash metal bands? PLEASE…

        Idiot…lol

      2. 1) Jimi Hendrix
        2) Love
        3) Death
        4) Rage Against the Machine
        5) Living Colour
        6) Gary Clark Jr
        7) The Urge
        8) Sevendust
        9) TV on the Radio
        10) Fishbone
        11) Lenny Kravitz
        12) Ben Harper
        13) Bad Brains
        14) Chuck Berry
        15) Prince
        16) Ice T/Body Count
        17) Black Merda

    22. lol @ a hoe hating on another hoe (iggy) just because she is more relevant and making money of so called black culture. This tiny titty bitch needs a reality check because WHO OWNS BLACK MUSIC AND ENTERTAINMENT??? the big white corporations so it don’t make sense either way but I guess she is simple minded

    23. hoe is hating on another hoe loooooool these bitches developing the aggressive battling nature of hiphop(50cent voice)

    24. Although I can’t stand Azalia Banks music, she is totally right on this one. Of course people who are not black will try to water this down but they know they look stupid. What do these wiggers bring to the game? It’s about building on the music, not imitating it. White people do what blacks did for years and because of the “support” of other whites who have no talent and discretion, they become “famous”, its real corny. And they know it is corny, so they over-promote it to divert your statements. Iggy Azalea is the worst case of blackcent issues ever, this chick is crazy, literally.

    25. Black & White are not cultures or races they are colors and created as fabrications of social order in order to separate people and y’all sure do run with it like good little brainwashed peons. Law, taxes, central banking system, etc. all European creations. I’m pretty sure most every american lives by these things every day regardless of skin complexion. But people will really argue about who owns a certain style of dress or dance.Silly humans, you’ll evolve soon. There is only an American culture here and it was heavily influenced by English rule & two of its biggest aspects are complaining and blaming. Most every comment on here is a regurgitation of the same mess over n over.it’s all good y’all gon wake up soon mane. One. Love.

    26. For the love of me can someone PLEASE tell me what genre of music whites are responsible for in America!?!? I have been on a quest to figure this answer out. There must be one!!!

      1. Existence itself is based on levels of vibrations & look what we call the universe. uni = one verse. Life itself is music & infinite. No ones owns anything let alone combinations of instruments in certain patterns or specific body motions or fabric tailored & colored in specific patterns. People so materialistic that they relate everything to the physical. Especially when creating division when as humans we have much more in common, anatomically, mentally & spiritually than we don’t.

      2. This comment was typed with my left hand while stroking my meat with my right hand and watching some interracial cuck porn

    27. QUIT WRITING ARTICLES ABOUT THIS NOBODY. WRITE ABOUT RELEVANT HIP-HOP ARTISTS.

      SHE MEANS ABSOLUTELY NOTHING TO THE WORLD OF HIP-HOP.

      HER AND TYGA SHOULD DO A DUET CALLED “WHY DOESN’T ANYBODY LIKE US?”

    28. The word “race” was created by Europeans and there’s still a race to steal the hearts and minds of the people through a plantation like system called the music industry or rap.

      1. This is not true, genocide has existed throughout history in Africa and tribal North America. And South America. Literally fucking everywhere.

      2. White skinned people have always been afraid of dominate gened non white people who threaten their genetic survival on the planet.

    29. if she never met a black women act like that, then why would she assume these white female rappers are impersonating black females??

      that doesn’t make sense,,

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