After criticizing both Iggy Azalea and T.I. on social media in the wake of two separate grand jury’s decisions not to indict police officers involved in the deaths of Mike Brown and Eric Garner, Harlem, New York rapper Azealia Banks has spoken out against both artists during a recent interview on Hot 97.
While speaking with Hot 97, Banks referenced Iggy Azalea’s recent Grammy nominations and denounced the annual awards show for nominating an artist who doesn’t represent “artistic excellence.” The rapper again criticized the awards show for putting what she feels is a dangerous mentality into the heads of both white and black children.
“I feel—Just in this country whenever it comes to our things like black issues or black politics or black music or whatever there’s always this undercurrent of kinda like a ‘fuck you,’” Azealia Banks said when asked about the origins of her feud with Iggy Azalea. “There’s always like a ‘Fuck y’all niggas. Like y’all don’t really own shit. Y’all don’t have shit.’ You get what I’m saying? And That Macklemore album wasn’t better than the Drake record. That Iggy Azalea shit is not better than any fuckin’ black girl that’s rappin’ today. And when they give those awards out—Cause the Grammys are supposed to be accolades for artistic excellence. You get what I mean? Iggy Azalea is not excellent.
“The message I see when I see these Grammys being given out—Cause it’s bigger than just playing shit on the radio…I have a problem when you’re trying to say that it’s Hip Hop,” she added. “And you’re trying to put it up against black culture. Even Nicki Minaj over the past two, three, four years has done so much to kind of create this social presence and this hold on just like social consciousness…It’s like a cultural smudging is what I see. And when they give these Grammys out, all it says to white kids is like ‘Oh yeah, you’re great, you’re amazing, you can do whatever you put your mind to.’ And it says to black kids ‘You don’t have shit, you don’t own shit, not even the shit you created for yourself.’ And, it makes me upset.”
Banks became emotional later in the interview while addressing slavery, reparations, and the black identity. She then addressed the convenience of the timing of the Bill Cosby controversy as it relates to the deaths of Mike Brown and Eric Garner.
“Everybody knows that the basis of capitalism is slave labor,” the musician said. “Really just the selling and trading of these slaves. There are huge fuckin’ corporations that are still caking off that slave money and shit like that. So, until y’all mothafuckas are ready to talk about what y’all owe me…At the very fuckin’ least y’all owe me the right to my fuckin’ identity and to not exploit that shit. That’s all we’re holding on to, Hip Hop and rap. And Bill Cosby or whatever the fuck that shit is. That shit is fucking too timely. That’s too timely. You have Eric Garner, Mike Brown, Trayvon Martin, and then y’all fuckin’ talking about Bill Cosby. Like what the fuck?”
T.I. and his wife, Tameka “Tiny” Cottle were again criticized by Banks who called out the Atlanta, Georgia wordsmith for his support of Iggy Azalea.
“Here you got fucking coon head ass T.I. – like T.I., you fucking out here trying to promote this fucking white bitch and then got your wife on VH1 and that bitch can’t fucking read,” Banks said, according to XXLMag.com. “You understand? You got your priorities fucked up. That’s really how I fucking feel about you. You a fucking shoeshining coon. How dare you?”
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Its truly sad how desperate this disgusting hoe is for attention. She must have been neglected as a child. No one can even name 1 of her songs. 212 is supposed to be her best work and it sounds atrocious to my ears. She doesn’t even make hip-hop she raps over reggaetron!
Why does she have straight European hair if she’s so mad at white folk? P.S. What a gigantic nose she has. A self righteous black woman that has white European women features and makes music that sounds similar to Iggy Azalea.
very true but she doesn’t make similar music to iggy she makes white European dance music and her fanbase is white gays…this dummy bitch is hilarious
i didnt think you could talk like that on terrestrial radio, does hot 97 do internet interviews too? shes probably not famous enough to be on the real radio.
I don’t know much about this chick besides her social/media presence but she definitely makes some valid points. The reality is the grammmy’s have never been representative of the Hip-Hop culture and very rarely get it right. The Corporations have taken control of mainstream hip-hop long ago and in my opinion artist like Minaj, Iggy and even Azealia herself are more representative of Pop music than Hip-Hop. Just because you Rap does not make you hip-hop!!
Iggy the queen of hip-hop just ethered this mush mouthed thot for crying on the radio and basically explained how she will never be successful in any genre because she is a bigot with a terrible attitude and not because she is a black woman.
“There are many black artists succeeding in all genres. The reason you haven’t is because of your piss poor attitude.” – ETHERED BY IGLOO AUSTRALIA
Banks only relevant because Kanye liked one of her gay euro dance songs one time like 3 years ago.
T.I., Eminem ft. Iggy need to make a diss song going at her.
ebro trying to give her some good career advice but she wont hear none of it. every week shes attacking someone else on twitter. remember when she got super angry at the “harlem shake” producer?
GEORGE IS GETTIN VERY UPSET!GEEEEEZ!SHE STILL NOT DONE??!?PHARRELL,IGGY,EMINEM,TI,TINY AND GOD KNOWS HOW MANY MORE SHES BEEN GOING ON ABOUT!JUST HOPE SHE WILL GROW UP SOON, BUT FOR NOW YOU CAN STUFF YOUR SORRIES IN A SACK MISTA!
Its funny because both Iggy Azalea and Azealia Banks got ran thru by A$AP MOB…fucked them right in the pussies
Iggy sucking is pretty obvious. Her getting a Grammy is irrelevant as the Grammy themselves.
she’s misunderstood..i like her
This is honestly one of the best interviews I’ve seen this year.
its no leather jogging pants but i feel yuh
Typical Black woman bitching about every damn thing and hating on White women.
Shut cha sambo ass up. Probably fuckin trailer park trash and acting like you’re getting bad White bitches.
She sounds very very angry and extremely bitter that she’s not popping in the US and has to do all of her touring to weird white crowds over in Europe. She has alot of hate towards white people it seems even though they’re likely the only ones buying her music, if she doesn’t get that under control she’ll be blackballed quicker then she can say 212
Could have sworn homegirl announced her retirement from music a few months back… must have been another desperate cry for attention.
She’s sooo passionate about hip-hop that more than half of her discography is mostly gay(literally) music that sounds like dance music from the 90s. She didn’t even like rap music up until she was in her late teens. Now she’s a sentinel for the culture now, lol.
if you’re more famous for your twitter rants and disses it might be time to re-evaluate your career
Have yet to listen to a song of hers, but I have the utmost respect for any Hip-Hop artist that tries to uphold the roots of Black culture. Everything she said is true. Hell, the reason I bought Cole’s album was because of what he said in Fire Squad. There is a deep consciousness going on as it relates to my peoples music and culture and I love it!
There’s no such thing as black culture any more. A black dude from a Miami is going to have way more in common with another white dude or Latino from Miami, than he is going to have with another black dude from New York. Fact of life, culture fades for all people groups.
Real spittage, these culture bandits think they can mimic our cultural art forms and then package it for mass consumption to white consumers and hi-jack the revenue streams while diluting the original and organic rhythms and flavor that we incorporate in our art.
These parasites are not only a cancer to the planet earth but they are a sick parasitic cancer to musical expression, next thing you know these sick freaks will start Death Rap like they turned original Rock into Death Metal.
Her music is awful……you don’t have to worry about white people stealing her style
You are the fucking cancer! Spreading hatred and pure evil thoughts, if you had a fucking brain you’d be dangerous but you don’t. Talking about expression then saying a certain race can’t express themselves. Are you that fucking dense? It isn’t even a paradox as there’s no critical thinking at all involved in that shower of shite that you have typed. Fucking racist bastard.
WHO GIVES A FUCK ABOUT THE GRAMMYS!! serious are rappers STILL talking about grammys lmfao.
Exactly! The Grammys is a white man’s cultural creation so you can’t be talking black culture and want to win Grammys.
All those black Grammy winners are all just sellouts to the white man’s culture.
Ma Nicca Ebro you tried with that advise, not sure if she heard it, would have been worth her while.
This bitch is the next Lord Jamar
YEAH ALL THE DOPE NIGGAZ FROM EM TO GAME TO 50 and basically aftermath in the 2000s … Niggaz Affiliated with the good DOC been sayin fuck these bitch ass award shows but you know why they can do that Cause the Drop CLASSIC FUCKIN ALBUMS!!!!! WHEN YOU DROP CLASSICS YOU CAN DO WHAT YOU WANT. DOCUMENTARY, DOCTORS ADVOCATE, LAX, GET RICH, THE MASSACRE, RECOVERY, EMINEM SHOW, MMLP, bitch when you drop shit like this grammys are from from your care cause you out here ballin sellin out shows when you drop albums like these!!!!!! AB is RIGHT I HATE IGGY too butt drop some dope music it will speak for its self then when you sell 5 million copies you can say fuck the grammys too!!!!!!
I fucks wit her
You fucks with anything that talks or walks!
This bitch is crazy … I hate her music … And its horrible … She needs a life she’s been on the same rant for a year now …. Get over it people don’t like her music it has nothing to do with race ….
the new classic mother fuckers the new classic
The racism of not only her but all these comments is staggering. You need go for some psychological tests or something because you are all crazy.
Bravo!
What’s all this stealing too? You think you or any individual owns a single thing on this planet? The only thing you own is your mind, nothing else, everything else is a concept. One that the mind has drawn up. Wake the fuck up and gain peace of mind because you are all lost walking a path of pure hatred. The double standards here are mind numbing and show that you have no intellect at all.
but you have the authoritarian idea that someone has no intellect…let that sit for a minute
If you can find an intellectual comment in here then point it out. All of you are as dense as you are racist.
Authoritarian too? Do you know the definition of the word. Thick fucker! If it was authoritarian you wouldn’t have replied. Speak some fucking sense, actually understand the words you are typing, the sense can come after.
you are oblivious to your reactions bruh…when i said “authoritarian idea” it means you believe you’re the gatekeeper to who is and whats what…you sound bitter not objective at all…and black folks cant be racist..”racist” is a term for the power structure black folk can be prejudice but not racist
Haha. Black people can be prejudice but not racist. I’ll say it again, understand the definition of words you are using. The biggest load of bollocks I have ever heard. Oppressed is a term for power structure if someone is suffering from it, fuckwit. Anyone in the entire world can be racist.
you’re very emotional and impulsive….please bruh never stand your ground
Speak some fucking sense, What does “please never stand your ground” mean? I’ll plant these feet right in the centre of any racists fucking forehead, no matter what colour they are. One thing I’m getting fuck sick and tired of is this ironic definition of racism as you have displayed like a crystal fucking ball. Hip-Hop is full of it, like no other art form. Then you have the audacity to claim black people can’t be racist on a fucking article that is displaying nothing but hatred and racism is retarded, not even a lobotomised person could come up with such trash.
you’re hilarious… cyber thugging at its finest…you gotta be a child
Says the person who can’t even use a full stop. You have been put in your place, this last retort that consists of nothing proves it.
Retort…this isn’t an argument its an observation…again with the condescending tones….there is no gatekeeper…there is no standard…we are all kings and queens …its our God given right….you cant control people with your labeling
Retort means reply, no matter what context it is in. Do you even know what day it is? Labels are given to everything, that’s how we communicate, that’s how we define everything by giving it a label. To try and make out that I’m controlling by calling a nailed on racist as a racist is bizarre. By everything that you have said it is perhaps better to analyse you own thought process rather than giving “observations” to mine(if you can call it that because you haven’t observed much going from your one line replies). You have said a damn fine thing in that we are all kings and queens, meaning that we are all equal. That doesn’t mean everyone thinks like that as this video shows, her words on twitter after and the comment section here. Also, your views on who can be racist.
The funniest shit is that she’s touring in Switzerland, Hungary, Romania and so forth and who’s the crowd there, WHITE PEOPLE! I love how some black rappers will talk shit about white rappers, people and so forth when 90% of the audience, buyers and concert goers are WHITE! So she thinks that blacks own rap, heard it. This is nothing new, same old shit from a different mouth.
The Grammys don’t select crap and typically select popular music. If you want to use the Grammys as a jump off point to bash other rappers that happen to be white then that’s cool but to take it slavery and other shit, STFU, you’re 23 years old.
Last time I checked, Azealia Banks wasn’t a slave, wasn’t around then. She knows the history of slavery, right? Blacks sold blacks to Europeans that then brought them on a boat and re-sold them again. It’s the most fucked up shit to ever happen in the history of human rights but to take that and tie it into hip-hop culture and blacks owning shit.
I don’t think Iggy Azealia is any good just like Azealia Banks. Hip-Hop is rapping over beats, that’s that. There is different types of hip-hop/rap but it still falls into the same category. So to say Iggy isn’t Hip-Hop is stupid because her music is just as dumb as 80% of all rap.
Bill Cosby; this is a lesson in media: YOU REPORT THE STORY OF THE MOMENT = Equals ratings.
Azealia Banks put out such a bad album and she’s just bitter like J.Cole because they need to blame someone for no press or sales in the WHITE MEDIA. I like that she’s so open and let’s people know her mind but she sounds like a spoiled brat that got her car taken away from daddy and now she needs to vent.
YOU’RE 23 YEARS OLD, stop talking like you were a former slave and your owed something. In this version of America you have the opportunity to do whatever you want and she seems to be doing just fine. Sometimes people think they can say what they want because they actually have no knowledge of anything, you know those people, think they know everything but no nothing.
Think about it, she’s 23, born in 1991, she knows nothing about black civil rights, hip-hop music roots and so forth. She’s a kid that was a actor, good student and what not but wants to act like she’s been around since 1960 and fought the fight.
This is a good interview after she stops babbling about race and white people bashing.
tell em white boi
yeah cause she’s 23 she cant experience racism in a post racial america…slavery was 140 years theres no aftermath…blacks huh…geez
cant believe this thot is only 23, the looks like shes fucking 30, haggard ass braod
KillaKm and Black N–ga, I’m not white and blacks weren’t the first and only slaves on the planet. Women are still slaves in the middle east, Asians in China, Blacks in Africa (to black militant owners) and so forth.
Nobody own music, it’s the gift to all mankind, no matter the color or the roots.
A black man or woman could be the next Mozart or Beethoven.
A White man or woman could be the next Tupac or Prince or Michael Jackson.
We need to stop this foolish talk about who owns what, there are some whites presently who thinks it’s their cultural heritage to own black slaves, and they dream of that past times…We don’t own music, we don’t own people we don’t even own the planet we live on we are just renters.
Azealia Banks just became my favourite artist.
I LOVE YOU GIRL
If you like crazy, she will be known in and out the industry as the crazy one.
– Tell me this, why does she always have to mention Iggy Azalea’s name, does it give her validation and recognition to call out Iggy’s name?
no one even knows 1 of her songs. he supposed best work 212 aint even hip-hop. shit is garbage juice. id rather listen to that slave masters song from iggy called d.r.u.g.s.
banks and lord jamar should make some ugly babies together
Just bought her last album and the 1991 EP after i watched this interview. Not really my kind of music but just for this interview I decided to support her music. She spoke some true words that we all think but dont talk about.
So we dissed Nikki Minaj for her pop rap record but we applauded the other girl for the same -ish.
The Coon-ery in hiphop is too much
no one is applauding iggy
remember when she dissed jim jones? lol she dont stop.
Action Bronson just caught a body!
Azalea banks brags about how she fucked many middle aged white men. Google it. She don’t care about black men except for how it may serve her
There’s an interview where she brags about how many middle aged white men she fucked as a teen. This girl is messed up and doesn’t care about black men except for how it may serve her. Gg
Link or it didn’t happen.
can’t post links on DX they delete them but here are the first 3 quotes from a quick google search. you can go google them yourself to find the source. she talks about older guys she fucked as a teen and how much her mom used to beat her. so when you know all this it makes sense out of her psycho attitude
“she is no longer in a destructive relationship with a much older man. Not that the experience has put her off.
“I love Drake. Drake’s cool,” she says on the subject of her choice of men. “But I like really older white guys. Not, like, really old, like 50s and 60s, but late 30s, 40s. Maybe early 50s. I did date a guy in his 50s. That’s, like, my thing. You just like what you like. ”
“I date lots of white guys. It’s still seen as slightly taboo in African American culture, but I thought, ‘Let me put this in your face and tell it how it is.'”
“At that point, I was really young and surrounded by a lot of older men who were working with me, that I was dating—a lot of older people I had to deal with. “
now think about the kind of damaged white man that would date a teen azaelia banks
i remember that, she really did say it
banks is just a hater. her music aint even all that. she needs to step her bars up for all the shit shes talking. instead of dissing iggy on a track LIKE A REAL HIPHOP HEAD WOULD. all she does is bitch about iggy azalea gettig more shine and attention then her. its kinda sad. and BITCH WAKE UP U WERE NEVER A SLAVE U GREW UP INA TIME WHERE SLAVERY IS ILLEGAL SO NOBODY OWES U SHIT!! I DIDNT SEE U AT THE PROTESTS. MUSTY MOUTHED THOT!
Are you serious this got this chick up in the radio station talking like she’s nice on the mic. Shame on Hot 97. SMH They just need shut these radio stations DOWN COMPLETELY.
no way they put her on the radio. she was cussing and being racist. must just be for youtube.
Yo this girl is nice on the mic. Go check out her track ‘Gimme a Chance’. Straight barz at the beginning. I rate her over Nikki…and any other female rapper out for now.
I dont consider the Australian girl a rapper so she aint on the list.
Fellas make sure your daughter reads a book and goes to school or they will end up like this ignorant fool!
From Eminem to T.I? I do not care what THOT has to say (or rap). Rule #1 Never outshine your master… Rule # 4 Always say less than necessary.
Eminem isn’t her “master” you pink skinned devil.
I will take the truth from anybody. I don’t care what you say about Banks. THE MESSAGE IS TRUE. Iggy is using black culture to be relevant and she is waaaay over rated.
FUCKING RACIST BLACK PEOPLE! It’s black music. it isn’t NO ones fucking music but the artist. My dad is black, Mom is white. Ive meet dumb ignorant white people. and please believe I have meet the same black people. FUCK RACE. where my Americans at?
one time a black kid came into my backyard at night and stole my clothes off the line while they were hanging out to dry. like wtf?
You need to start thinking about more than your next president, he’s just the leader of the executive branch. Vote for senators and house reps(people actually write the laws), you should also vote in local elections, changes on a state or city level can happen much faster than changes at a federal level
If Azalea Banks was making top ten hits and was making headlines based on her own merits she wouldn’t be casting shade on iggy Azalea. This shade campaign is the only was she can be noticed and get headlines. Truly pathetic/