Azealia Banks Says She No Longer Wants To Be A Rapper, Deletes Twitter Account

    Azealia Banks has deleted her Twitter account, a decision she prefaced with several tweets explaining why.

    Banks wrote:

    no longer wishing to be a rapper.i never was…. and as soon as i started paying attention to bullshit urban media, i started getting myself in trouble. From now on i’m a vocalist, and will not be associating myself with the “rap game”… or whatever the f*ck that means…no more twitter for me… it makes me entirely too accessible. Catch me on tumblr… it’ll be more interesting.

    Prefixmag.com reports that before she made the revelation that she was leaving Twitter (and perhaps the Rap game), Banks also blasted her former management.

    “I know who you are yes…You short bald man…I know you planted these false stories,” tweeted Banks, presumably of Troy Carter, her former manager and Lady Gaga’s current manager.

    “Guess what?: I’m still not going to let you manage me again. I’ve dealt with enough cyber bullying to see right [sic] thru this.”

    Banks expressed that she would be working by herself, and wants either a female manager or a “really gay man” as her manager. “You other n-ggas have WAY too much ego  sh-t with y’all,” she said of the matter.

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    112 thoughts on “Azealia Banks Says She No Longer Wants To Be A Rapper, Deletes Twitter Account

    1. While she won’t be missed, it’s nice to see someone stand up against the corruption in the music industry. The rap game really is full of smoke and mirrors. She’s a smart girl.

      1. @ Mick she’s not taking a stance, that bullshit EP she put out didn’t sell, and she thought twitter with all her followers were going to buy it, I guess she now realizes that all that beef shit she was about backfired,

    2. BASICALLY NOBODY WANTS TO HEAR THE BITCH RAP SO SHE GOING TO SING AND TRY AND GET THAT WHITE MONEY. SHE MAD THE BLACK MEDIA SEE RIGHT THROUGH HER FAKE ASS. BITCH WAS PROUD HER MOM MADE $90,000 A YEAR WHILE WAS CHEATING THE GOV AND LIVING IN SUBSIDIZE HOUSING

      YMCMB OVOXO MMG WTB

    3. What HIPHOPDX forgot to mention it’s that AZEALIA made another declaration after saying she would stop rapping she said she didn’t want to be laabelled as a rapper go on her Tumblr and see what she said :
      Im still going to rap, i just dont want the label and all the other crap that comes with the rap game its boring. rather be a dance artist..”
      If you write on article on someone write the entire story !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    4. I hope she does still rap, one of the best flows in the game…
      No other bitch doing it like her! Wayne snap her up!

    5. Spoiled cry baby & an example of whats wrong with kids these days, most of these kids want to be artists because they want to be worshiped & loved , the want to be “rockstars” they want the lifestyle but they don’t want the pitfalls that come with it not to mention the majority of them have no talent whatsoever thats why music in general is so shit these days, it’s because people don’t really wanna make music, they just wanna be “stars”

    6. She bought it all on herself, she had a successful song but that wasn’t enough she had to talk slick about everyone else now she’s mad coz people called her out on her bullshit? lol smh

    7. This is a classic DIFFICULT ARTIST. She will be gone and forgotten in no more than 24 months. No one wants to deal with a developing artist diva. She is a media creation to begin with. There are waaaaay more talented and beautiful females to work with out there. Look at her track record–she has had issues with XL Recordings. 77 Klash, Diplo, Troy Carter and two previous mangers before him. Some artists are their own worst enemy and just more trouble than they are worth.

    8. HEEELL Y EEEZZZ NIKKKAS

      FINALLY IT HAPPENED – JUST BOUGHT A NEW RIDE – A CAM A RO CONVERTIBLE.GOT APPROVED FOR 26 LARGE. BEEN 5 YRS SINCE IVE GOTTEN SHYT APPROVED, BUT NOW ALL MY CRE DIT SHEET GONE. ALL OF IT.

      IF YOU STRUGGLING WITH THAT CRE DIT HISTORY ISHH, GET RID OF ALL DAT TODAY – CALL THESE PEEPS AT 8^8^8-9-2-7 -3-3-5-6. . THEY DO AMAZING WORK AND THEY ARE CHEAP AS FUQQ. GOT RID OF ALL MY SHYYT IN NO TIME.

      MY HOMEBOY WAS IN THE GUTTA TOO, AND HE CLEANER THAN ME NOW-gettin a condo!!

      Hit em up – THEY WILL HELP U!!

    9. We in a genre full of phony ass people… people on the internet is fake people in the music business is fake your fans is fake this game is ran by fake shit so even saying real shit people will agree but on the low they dont support you cause you going against there personal beliefs so dont put your heart out to a world full of phony people that already working against you

      1. That was one of the most neurotic and paranoid comments I’ve read in a long time. You might as well build a bunker, stock food and hibernate.

    10. HEEELL Y EEEZZZ NIKKKAS

      FINALLY IT HAPPENED – JUST BOUGHT A NEW RIDE – A CAM A RO CONVERTIBLE.GOT APPROVED FOR 26 LARGE. BEEN 5 YRS SINCE IVE GOTTEN SHYT APPROVED, BUT NOW ALL MY CRE DIT SHEET GONE. ALL OF IT.

      IF YOU STRUGGLING WITH THAT CRE DIT HISTORY ISHH, GET RID OF ALL DAT TODAY – CALL THESE PEEPS AT 8^8^8-9-2-7 -3-3-5-6. . THEY DO AMAZING WORK AND THEY ARE CHEAP AS FUQQ. GOT RID OF ALL MY SHYYT IN NO TIME.

      MY HOMEBOY WAS IN THE GUTTA TOO, AND HE CLEANER THAN ME NOW-gettin a condo!!

      Hit em up – THEY WILL HELP U!!

    11. she got a sick ass flow and she got spunk. she cute too. she just changed her title thats all she aint going anywhere.

      1. you right bitch couldn’t handle the shit so now she finna leave and start some techno shit with them niggas.

    12. Some artists are their own worst enemy and just more trouble than they are worth.

      ^ this sounds about right….but I think she meant she’s going to do dance/club/house music which is the lane that album is in.

      1. you two prove y’all ain’t really nothing to do in your lives… she’s nothin? nigga who are you?

    13. can’t say she’ll be missed.. that 1991 EP was trash.. one track outta four was aight.. just go pop.. hip hop ain’t for u

    14. Should I give her a week before she comes back to rapping and/or twitter, or is she really serious?

    15. YALL NIGGAS TRYPIN! SHES DOPE LITSEN TO ‘RUNNING’ SHE CAN OUTRAP ANY OF THESE NEW RAP BITCHES YOU NAME THEM NIKI, IZZY ETC….

    16. I knew she was a phony. She doesn’t love hip hop. I always knew she was not a REAL MC. She is the wannabe I knew she always was…. and if she thinks the “urban” media is bad….

      if she gets big and becomes mainstream or pop the mainstream media will eat her up…. ask RIhanna & Kanye…. that’s when she will start running back to her “peeps”…

      It’s like Denzel said about MJ when he showed up at the NAACP awards after his controversy “they always come home”.

      Nicki Minaj is a lot tougher than this chick… she hasnt even blown up yet and she is already quitting the game.

    17. Not to sound fucked up, but im glad she leavin rap bcuz she wasn’t good for the culture. Well, not her necessarily her, jus the type of music she was makin.

      She’s a pretty girl, i wish her luck in whatever else she tries to do.

      But damn, if only nikki manaj would follow suit and say she’s quitin rap. That would be like Christmas!!

      nuff said….

      1. nuff said ure a fucking idiot. do u know how many fucking rappers there are? u got some nerve. what rappers do you like then?

    18. BASICALLY NOBODY WANTS TO HEAR THE BITCH RAP SO SHE GOING TO SING AND TRY AND GET THAT WHITE MONEY. SHE MAD THE BLACK MEDIA SEE RIGHT THROUGH HER FAKE ASS. BITCH WAS PROUD HER MOM MADE $90,000 A YEAR WHILE WAS CHEATING THE GOV AND LIVING IN SUBSIDIZE HOUSING

      YMCMB OVOXO MMG WTB

      1. she didn’t have to go thru the black media to get her success like nicki minaj did. that’s what ya’ll don’t seem to understand. black media shunned her at first because she doesn’t look like rihanna or iggy then she went and blew up with real money overseas. now she’s taking over in US circles as well. the white sales your favorite black rapper can only hope and wish to get she already has on lock down.

      1. damn them niggas say on your mind heavy. no one even mentioned them yet thats all you wanna talk about

    19. 80% of these comments came from the same computer…..lol. good music sells not management. this girl’s music sounded horrible……worse than gangsta nip.

      1. Good music doesnt sell tho, only musician who really sells records like that anymore is Adele, got everybody else from Wayne to Lady Gaga to whoever getting all the promotion in the world and still struggling to go double platinum. Adele sitting on her 9x’s platinum album laughing at the rest of the music buisness

      2. I don’t see anything wrong with Gangsta Nip’s music…

    20. this bitch thinks her shit dont stink. so self righteous and egotistical without even hitting fame yet. delusional bitch. peace/

    21. Fucking hipster bitch, drops one song that is a small scale pop hit and then announces she’s leaving the game like somebody gives a single fuck. SMH @ this buffoonery

      1. No she isn’t leaving the music industry, she just doesn’t’ want her music under the banner of rap/hip hop. She’s just getting started and at 21 years of age with millions of YouTube views, chart success, 1,000s of fans, already a millionaire. I think she’s got her whole future ahead of her. What you been up to recently?……(
        awkward silence)……

      2. She was never hip hop, and was just using it as a tool, just from how she put it, someone should have pulled her card a long time ago.

      3. You gotta be joking, or you probably didn’t pass grade 10 math. You think this bitch is a Millionaire???? LMAO!!!!

        Let me break it down for you….

        Fame Money $$$

      4. hahaha.. you hating black male rap worshipers are so transparent. she doesn’t need ya’ll for her success and ya’ll are way behind. this newsflash has been running across your screen for several months now. now she’s calling you the b— h–s and c—s all around the world and you can’t take it! LOL

      1. I disagree, people only started booing when she began performing her 1991 song which is more dance/club than the traditional hip hop thats done at Summer Jam. She’s a very good rapper because of her unique flow, although I must say it does sound a bit samey with her overtly sexual references. But I’m sure she will find plenty of success outside of hip hop circles. Look at Adele.

      2. nigga did you just say Adele? what the fuck are you talkin about? that’s like comparing spaceships and trees.

    22. “real hip hop heads” and back packers pretty much forced her to quit rap.

      blowing up her twitter and shit all over one performance. This industry will make you rich but take your sanity as well.

      1. What have real hip hop heads got do with this? Or did you forget (in your own words, that’s right all you top 40 sheep are the same) real hip hop doesn’t sell because we don’t support them, we just like to front on the internet?

    23. dis bitch is an Iggy clone. she bites ma sista Iggy. stop it u talentless biatch. u copyin Nicki & Iggy. get a life u whore. swag

      1. Iggy suck’s and she sucked T.I off to get on to Grand Hustle.

        Bitch can’t rap for shit

    24. lol what a joke she is. way to waste a whole bunch of ppls time. not mine cause i never listened to a track.

    25. Bitch you better come back! Only you and Nicki are doing it. Wayne needa sign her arse YMCMB-itches

    26. hipster rubbish. NME fodder. In actual fact, ‘212’ isn’t bad as a pop song, but it’s not rap, just unimportant pop music. Therefore, everyone’s happy.

    27. Good riddance. We don’t need her sort contaminating hip-hop. Hopefully all these other MTV assholes will follow suit. Only girl emcee I fuck with is Invincible, I love shorty.

    28. Azealia Banks is commenting on all the negative comments. LMAO. Shit is mad funny. What kind of insecure, loser, fake, artist, badgers people’s free right to an opinion that she is TRASH!!!!

      She couldn’t rap to save her life. And good music? She couldn’t make that to save her mama’s life.

    29. This Bitch is the Adema of hiphop. Never paid her dues, and now.. it showz.

      She was abviously fakin the FunK with no heart in it she could never go far. can’t be doin this music shiit for the fame & popularity. will never last doin that

    30. Let Banks do her thing. Hip-hop is a peace of shit nowadays anyway, So i can see why she doesn’t want to be under that banner. She has had more success than a lot of Mofo in the game on a major label.

    31. shes mad dope, different. shes better off indie anyway. the record industry is garbage ask Lauryn. all truly creative people are independent. keep makin music girl, ignore the hate. theyre jealous/sexist. your more hiphop than 99%. hiphop is not about a beat…its about being original/fresh/dope. so yes, techno/house can be hiphop

      one thing she did is put me back on the new york house scene which is very cool

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