Knife 6,652 Posted November 13, 2014 Share Posted November 13, 2014 Article: The Guardian: Azealia Banks on feuding with the Stone Roses, Disclosure and Perez Hilton As the world waited – and waited – for her to deliver Broke …, there came a point when her Twitter quarrels threatened to overshadow her music. Now that she has extricated herself from her deal with Universal – which she feels was insufficiently encouraging of her art – and the album is out and being largely acclaimed for its eclectic mix of rave and trap, electronica and R&B, a palpable sense of relief has given her the confidence to discuss those beefs. Like the one with Disclosure, with whom she had a preliminary recording session last September and which she then tweeted about, much to the Lawrence brothers’ chagrin. They felt she was being a little previous. “I tweeted that I just had the best session with Disclosure, because I was such a fan-girl and I was so excited to have met them. But I guess their thing was: ‘What if the song isn’t that good and you hyped it up?’ But I was like: ‘So ****ing what?’ So they tried to be, like, assholes. And the next day they went to the media and they were like,†– she assumes the identity of an uptight Brit – “‘Oh well, I don’t know why she’s so excited, because we haven’t even finished this song or written a hook for it.’ I mean, come on!†She reflects for a second. “I want to punch one of them in the face – the little one [possibly Guy Lawrence]. The ugly one. I want to hit him so bad. I saw him at the airport in Australia and I came over to him and I was like: ‘Hello? Like, what are we going to do with this song?’ And he was just being a dickhead. I started crying, I was so angry. I wanted to hit him. I cannot stand that little boy with all those pimples around his mouth. I love their music, though.†Another dispute that almost came to blows was with Ian Brown of the Stone Roses. Following a performance at Melbourne’s Future Music festival, Banks claimed on Twitter that her former tour manager “made a pact with the Stone Roses [to] sabotage my set because I fired himâ€. She followed that up by wishing “nothing but excrement and death†on the group, calling them “old saggy white niggasâ€. What really happened? “I was dating this tour manager, and we stopped dating,†she explains. “I didn’t want to fire him, but I wanted to bring my new boyfriend on tour. So he did something really stupid where he had dinner with the Stone Roses and he made a pact with them to have one of their roadies come on my stage and soundcheck during my set. Whatever. I broke his heart and it was unfair. I kind of deserved it. But don’t **** with my stage or I’ll kill you. Anyway, I’d been looking for [the Roses] all day, and this van comes up and Ian Brown gets out the car, and he’s like: ‘Why you talkin’ about me on Twitter?’ And literally I got this close to him.†She stands up and bends towards me, her face millimetres from mine, and roars: “I’m like: ‘Rarrrrrr!’†There was, inevitably, also a social media face-off with Iggy Azalea, whom she dismisses today with a food metaphor: “Nobody’s going to go to Nobu and have a McDonald’s.†Did she ever worry that all of this extracurricular aggro devalued her work? “No,†she replies. “I’m just worried that it’s going to get in the way of my love life. I don’t want men to think I’m crazy. Even though I am crazy.†(She takes antidepressants, and Soda, on the album, is about that subject.) Does she regret any of her rows? The one with showbiz blogger Perez Hilton, say? “I don’t regret doing it, but I’ll never do it again, because I don’t care enough about the person to have the battle again and defend my use of the word ‘*******’,†she says. I thought her defence might be that she was using the word much as American comedian Louis CK employs it, as a general insult for a weak person or ineffectual behaviour. In fact, to Banks, “*******†is a term of abuse levelled specifically at misogynists, some of whom, in her experience, have been gay. “A lot of gay men are way more misogynistic than straight men,†she says. “The **** they say about women behind their backs, it’s like: ‘Wow, oh my God!’ You can be a straight *******, you can be a gay *******. A ******* is anybody that hates women. It’s like, y’all sing along to my words when I’m saying ‘nigga’ and ‘****’, but as soon as I call this one white man a ******* the whole world exploded. Listen, I didn’t say all gay men are *******s; I said Perez Hilton is a *******, so don’t try and bring the rest of the gays down with your *******ry.†----- If you thought her antics were over, think again. I guess once you've dug your own grave the only thing left to do is take a dirt nap. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
FKAJAKE 5 Posted November 13, 2014 Share Posted November 13, 2014 it actually sounded really intelligent to me, i like her forward thinking mindset Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chromatislaps 34,759 Posted November 13, 2014 Share Posted November 13, 2014 I think she gives a different light to the term....its mostly given a negative meaning. But words can mean anything given the context.. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
CHANTEL 2 Posted November 13, 2014 Share Posted November 13, 2014 I never felt offended by that, we need to move on from those insults, we're in 2014, those words shouldn't even relate to gay in a negative way, just like '******' isn't being related to black people and all the slavery that happened in the past. and she did clarify that she used the word just like other rappers use '******' which seems to never cause any controversy these days. You're just obsessed with her Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rat Boy 41,605 Posted November 13, 2014 Share Posted November 13, 2014 I'm pretty sure she is bi.She is not being offensive. She is just giving her own interpretation on the term. "Rat Boy's a nasty, trashy, sleazy, classless"- River Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
XoXoJoanneGaga 629 Posted November 13, 2014 Share Posted November 13, 2014 She's right, especially about gays being misogynists Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
FKAJAKE 5 Posted November 13, 2014 Share Posted November 13, 2014 I never felt offended by that she did clarify that she used the word just like other rappers use '******' which seems to never cause any controversy these days. You're just obsessed with her this, i'm gay, Azealia's gay, pretty much her entire fanbase is gay. If she was a homophobe we would've picked up on it someone change the title, it's subjective Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tove Lo 2,481 Posted November 13, 2014 Share Posted November 13, 2014 You're delusional for thinking she's right hop on that **** like a maniac Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
CHANTEL 2 Posted November 13, 2014 Share Posted November 13, 2014 I'm pretty sure she is bi. She is not being offensive. She is just giving her own interpretation on the term. exactly You're delusional for thinking she's right you're delusional for thinking that your opinion is a fact Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted November 13, 2014 Share Posted November 13, 2014 There's nothing to be offended with though. And if you do feel offended by that, then good. The thread title itself is kinda a perfect reason why she is calling people like you such words. Noted douche of GGD continued hatred towards a black rapper in new thread. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrFameKills 1,600 Posted November 13, 2014 Share Posted November 13, 2014 i actually agree with her wish ya good fortune in tha wars 2 come Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chromatislaps 34,759 Posted November 13, 2014 Share Posted November 13, 2014 I'm pretty sure she is bi. She is not being offensive. She is just giving her own interpretation on the term. this Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Knife 6,652 Posted November 13, 2014 Author Share Posted November 13, 2014 I'm pretty sure she is bi.Being bis-xual doesn't give you the authority to re-purpose and appropriate slurs that have zero to do with you.That would be like me deciding that I wanted to re-purpose the n-word (or any other racial epithet) to insert-definition-here.Words don't work like that. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chromatislaps 34,759 Posted November 13, 2014 Share Posted November 13, 2014 i actually agree with her I love ur avi Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Disregard 50 Posted November 13, 2014 Share Posted November 13, 2014 That's like white people who say "I'm not using the n word to describe ALL black people, just the ignorant ones." Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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