Azealia Banks

just got wind of this. uh oh.

azealia did a rap over harlem shake, put it on soundcloud, and has promptly begun a twitter beef with baauer.

so bored by these antics just put your record out already.

that said it is interesting that baauer is happy for these meme videos to spread and spread but as soon as someone raps over his song it's a problem

ugh at the whole thing

HS is worse than Macklemore.

i feel like a lot of what's come up as a result of her rapping over dance tracks has to do with dance producers' sense of propriety over their beats vs. rap producers (which you see even in, just, pop songs having a "featuring David Guetta" or "featuring Calvin Harris" credit where there would never be a "featuring Mike Will Made It" or whatever). in addition to her obviously being an asshole about these things. i can imagine Baauer being aware of that stuff happening with her before and wanting to nip it in the bud -- didn't she say she put it online after she attempted and failed to get it approved to use on her own album? that's a little different than just "i did a freestyle over the new Drake song, check it out."

what the hell is wrong with this woman

she's apparently not acting in a way that you like.

it's kind of a funny reversal too...instead of producers taking acapellas and making remixes (authorized or not, and credited appropriately), it's a vocalist jumping on hot already-released instrumentals. i think it's happening more and more now that producers have a higher profile. i see 'beat scene' producers complaining all the time on twitter about obscure rappers using their beats and then putting "produced by flying lotus" or whatever, and it's the latter part that's problematic since it implies involvement/collaboration. except it's a much bigger deal when the vocalist has the profile of AB, and can presumably afford to actually work with name producers.

forks, she got into a tweet fight with perez hilton that devolved this morning into her grandstanding about her freedom to use the word 'faggot' at will

i mean that's offensive enough but i'm just really pissed off that she's made me feel like i need to defend perez hilton, i mean ugh

YUNG RAPUNXEL ‏@AZEALIABANKS
Here we go again. Everyone pretending to be so shocked and moved by the word faggot

YUNG RAPUNXEL ‏@AZEALIABANKS
It's like society is so bored with itself it needs to hold on to these outdated rules of what you can say and cannot say

YUNG RAPUNXEL ‏@AZEALIABANKS
Why has society accepted "nigger" As a colloquialism ... But will not accept "faggot"?

‏YUNG RAPUNXEL @AZEALIABANKS
Everyones always acting like its fucking 1905 in this bitch

YUNG RAPUNXEL ‏@AZEALIABANKS
Faggot means coward, liar, backstabber.......

YUNG RAPUNXEL ‏@AZEALIABANKS
Energy stealer, blood sucker

"why is everybody so offended, i'm just saying that gay people are parasitic, duplicitous monsters"

Why has society accepted "nigger" As a colloquialism ... But will not accept "faggot"?

Everyones always acting like its fucking 1905 in this bitch

Society as a whole needs to move forward and use them both interchangeably.

not defending her at all, but i think she's trying to make the (lame) argument that the word (to her) has a meaning totally disassociated from gay people.

she is the fucking worst

YUNG RAPUNXEL ‏@AZEALIABANKS
We are all entitled to our own truths. :)

that is fucking rage-inducing

she also feels entitled to take other people's music and put shitty, energy-sucking raps over them, which I guess is just her exercising her own truth

i'm with jordan on this, though tbf i hadn't seen that series of tweets and they're fucking stupid and your derision is appropriate and earned; my bad

i try not to pay attention to the social media of anyone who i'm interested in artistically it serves me well

It hurts to side against her given the target this time was one of the few gay men I'd be fine calling a colloquialism to his face.

no one is saying Perez shouldn't die in a fire along with her

tbh i'm pretty convinced that she wouldn't be remotely as well known or talked about right now, 18 months after the one song people were really enthusiastic about, if she didn't constantly pull this kind of shit, so good for her i guess? well-behaved women seldom make your RSS feed.

i think the most generous interpretation is that she is trying to make a disctinction between "gay people" & "faggots" the same way chris rock once distinguished "black people" from "n****rs"

because we all know how well that concept worked out once white people got a hold of it

azealia hittin new lows!!!!!! damn she is a dumb fuck

She's right tho. Society has really come to embrace n***** as a colloquialism. Why my grandmother greets me with "Hi, n*****!" every time she answers the phone.

on top of which, she uses emoticons

how dare you say that about Eric's grandmother

that's how we know Eric's grandmother is kidding

on top of which, she uses emoticons

Yeah, well, she's the product of a different era.

why tim dog and not azealia? god is a crul ringmaster

she's terrible. hope her record never comes out.

i can't see really getting too wrapped up in someone that basically had a fun youtube one-hit-wonder more than a year ago.

she's really inept at forming this argument

i think she has an arguable position but....... yeah

my problem with her argument is that she's just parroting the exact same things said by people like eminem and tyler, the creator and i don't think her queerness really strengthens the position at all.

I don't think her queerness actually exists.

well i'm not gonna get into that one

the argument she's making about language has been comprehensively shot into the sun several thousand times. did dinosaurs and humans ever co-exist? hey you can make the argument.

her problem is that she's conflating one defensible argument (it's okay for queers to use the word "faggot") with a whole other very indefensible argument (it's okay for everyone to use "faggot" because it just means you're a backstabber)

imagining the o'jays "backstabbers" with new lyrics

speaking of tyler, he still uses the f-word constantly, does he just get a free pass on that because of frank now or what

Not defending her or anyone else, but don't rappers always toss around the word 'faggot' as often as 'nigga' and people still twerk to it as if they didn't hear those words? Why is it, that a female rapper is getting heat for something that is par for the course, not just in hip hop, but for life for some people. I know many people, from the hood to the suburbs, who toss around 'nigga' and 'faggot' as if they have no historical meaning whatsoever. I hear Filipino, Latino, and everyone else use 'nigga' as their equivalent to 'dude' and it's rare for someone to jump up and be vocally defensive about it because a lot of people, for better or worse, don't grant those words the same power we all collectively once did. Especially the generation born in the late 80's, early 90's. Is her use of the word ignorant? Of course! She is like so many troubled girls I grew up with (who went on to audition for Bad Girls Club) that are angry and defensive as hell and are not interested in anyone's rules of decorum. As a black faggot myself, I hate that someone who is supposed to be a part of my community is spreading ignorance in the way AB is. I don't think it's ever ok to excuse the use of 'faggot' in a derogatory manner. You just give certain people all the more reason to be ignorant and run with it (i.e. Chris Rock and his nigga vs black people argument).

Side note: Why does this dumb ass ALWAYS take the bait? On Twitter, you let the stans defend you! Like, does she not pay attention? People were looking for reasons to justify their hatred of her and she just keeps helping them. Fucking insane.

buttstabbers, morelike

well as to your final point, it keeps her name in the news despite her only notable song being like 1.5 years old

the generation born in the late eighties and early nineties is LESS apt to use those words!

Are you from America?

i believe alfred is

from a little town called "Florida"

so, barely