Azealia Banks

wondered why she was trending, turned out it was because she bit a security guard's breast after claiming to be on the rihanna album

http://pagesix.com/2015/12/16/boob-biting-azealia-banks-arrested/

"Jeremy" is stuck in my head now, thanks Azealia Banks

She was trending again, I was thinking "has she released something new or did she do something stupid" and it was the arraignment hearing for the biting fiasco lex posted upthread

I assumed it was the Donald Trump thing.

what Donald- wait let me guess

*googles* ugh that was easy to guess

she was also tweeting about her new mixtape, although i'm guessing her regular fuckery gets more play on twitter than actual news w/ her nowadays

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Congrats to Azealia Banks for having the same political goals as Ra's Al Ghul from batman

so i am actually listening to broke w/expensive taste right now and this is kinda awesome!

i kinda forgot about the album amid all her twitter controversies

it's an odd mix of dance/hip hop

i don't really know who this is supposed to be for, but it's good

i wonder how it would have been received if she wasn't always being such a loon on social media?

like it has a certain quality that's not a million miles away from the shamir album

I was surprised by how much I liked that album given how little I liked everything she released prior to it.

DJP, I'm surprised you weren't into "212" or the 1991 EP!

Everything from that era of her career is a million times better as an instrumental.

https://soundcloud.com/azealia-banks/1800bigbigbeat

New track "The Big Big Beat" is like the second coming of Technotronic.

when is her mixtape coming out??

http://49.media.tumblr.com/43398eb425c6e0e2b1aa2c911018933d/tumblr_ngpo0ughiU1u5f8joo1_500.gif

i don't really know who this is supposed to be for, but it's good

She's a perennial on the queer party circuit. I feel like "Heavy Metal & Reflective" is the song from BWET (other than "212") I hear out the most at this point.

fyi just got home from a gay club where they played "212"

I really need to never look at her Twitter again. She really is a major artist and yet so much of the shit she types is just so noxious. Now she responds to KKK members showing up at a Trump rally with a "theory" of white racism that's actually a rehash of the pseudoscientific form racism actually took in the 19th century ("We as animals have natural, intrinsic tendencies to mate and socialize with people of our own racial group" - these are her words). I suppose Ice Cube circa Death Certificate was on a similar wavelength, but he didn't have a Twitter page. In the face of an actual white supremacist movement actually going mainstream through the stupefying magnetism of an overgrown schoolyard bully I can understand why people are apt to throw up everything they got, but it's still distressing to hear yet more ignorant bullshit in response from a talent who you'd think would know better.

a talent who you'd think would know better

Genuine question: why would you think she'd know better? "She's young and black and a clever lyricist, therefore she can't possibly also be a stupid bigot"?

She should know better bc everyone should

She has spent her entire time on Twitter repeatedly showing that she does not know any better

new release here:

https://www.wetransfer.com/downloads/598eeba5cba2de7b0b90bf971b2f789820160324191812/0b66418573b6ccdad63db9a15d81650e20160324191812/354438

'the big beat' sounds p good

http://theslot.jezebel.com/this-sarah-palin-azealia-banks-feud-is-a-historic-momen-1769130480

definitely a normal thing to say from someone who definitely has her shit together! nothing to see here!

Ugh Palin getting the moral high ground for once is so gross

Not so fast...

"Azealia engages in a form of racism and hate that is celebrated by some in the perverted arm of pop culture, but is condemned by those who know it's tearing our country apart. Others may keep turning a blind eye to problems like Azealia's mouth; I choose to take a stand against it and the double standards that result in her actually being rewarded for her divisive tactics and aggressively inciting violence. ... Let's be honest here: if a white girl were to say what this black girl is saying, the screams for the entire white population's head would be louder than the nonsensical rap that Azealia spews all the way to the bank. The white girl would probably be locked up. ... I think this time I don't just sit back and swallow it, but put the fear of God in her by holding her accountable. As many of you have for years implored me to do, I'm finally going to sue."

"the perverted arm of pop culture"

The new "lamestream media?"

it's way snappier

not that it matters, but i am pretty sure palin didn't write that statement. have you seen the transcripts of her recent speaking engagements?

im w Banks here. Palin is a shitlord

azealia banks is also full of shit though

Also, i never said you should be raped. I used the term “run a train,” which is slang for group sex, NOT for “rape.” There are many distinctions between the two. As a woman, I would never trivialize something as lewd and criminal to provide myself any sort of comic relief because it simply… just isn’t funny.

celebrated by some in the perverted arm of pop culture, but is condemned by those who know it's tearing our country apart.

http://imoviequotes.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/2-Rebel-Without-a-Cause-quotes.gif

interesting. when i read that my mind immediately went here

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LRKiftk6ffQ

Banks doesn't come off too great here; hard to when you are taking a satirical news story at face value. But Palin going all "if a white person had done this..." is (characteristically) repulsive.

seems like saying less dumb shit than sarah palin should be a pretty low bar to clear, especially for internet social justice hero azealia banks, and yet...

crypto otm. that was way grosser and it seems like Banks is actually trying to walk back what she said. wtf with this "put the fear of god into you" bs?

azealia banks is an amoral provocateur. not as dangerous as palin but it's still a pretty juvenile, indefensible stance

Not trying to exonerate Banks at all--even if she "didn't mean rape," the idea of proposing sex with black men as corrective punishment is vile (and, yes, racist) in ways Banks is obviously not smart enough to understand. But it seemed like this should have all been over with the minute Banks apologized/admitted her mistake, and yet that's when Palin decided to make this her "I'm gonna strike a blow against 'reverse racism' and attacks on my family" moment.

well, she's sarah palin

I think we're overlooking the real issue here, though, which is: is Banks' new mixtape cover Photoshopped, or did she get breast implants?

http://hiphopdx.com/news/id.38732/title.azealia-banks-continues-to-voice-support-for-donald-trump

why why why does anyone still support her? http://metro.co.uk/2016/05/11/azealia-banks-launches-racist-and-homophobic-attack-against-zayn-malik-and-mocks-grime-music-5873826/

what's "mood boarding"?

My @'s too good for you lol

jfc

it's as if one billion inexplicably laudatory broke with expensive taste reviews screamed out at once and then were suddenly deleted from dozens of music publications

(hey a person can dream yanno)

odd that ilx gave song of the year to a dangerously narcissistic novelty act

tbf she hadn't said or done anything around "212" to suggest this level of awfulness (to my knowledge, anyway)