VIDEO: Azealia Banks' interview with Hot 97 - talks about Iggy, Black Culture

[KrisFromMars 9]

Loved the interview.

And I love AB TO DEATH. I am African American and I agree with certain points she was making about the black american culture. The only things that's weird to me is that the way she feels towards whites about certain black issues and it's weird to me that she usually chooses white guys to date? You would think whites would be the last person she would be attracted too :duck:

[Daxclamation 7]

Hunting and slaughtering animals? No thanks.

[inuborg 4,136]

Hunting and slaughtering animals? No thanks.

Are you a vegetarian? if not  

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She almost mentioned Gaga but she said Miley instead 

[inuborg 4,136]

Loved the interview.

And I love AB TO DEATH. I am African American and I agree with certain points she was making about the black american culture. The only things that's weird to me is that the way she feels towards whites about certain black issues and it's weird to me that she usually chooses white guys to date? You would think whites would be the last person she would be attracted too

I think its like...well you can't blame one person for the world being ****ed up. You can't blame Iggy, and you can't blame any individual white person. 

[Hexxx 2,244]

Loved the interview.

And I love AB TO DEATH. I am African American and I agree with certain points she was making about the black american culture. The only things that's weird to me is that the way she feels towards whites about certain black issues and it's weird to me that she usually chooses white guys to date? You would think whites would be the last person she would be attracted too

Not really sure but the only part I'm thinking about are some white people calling Iggy and Macklemore the king and queen of rap when they've never even heard of Lauryn Hill, MC Lyte, or a single song bye Tupac.

[TRILL MONSTER 1,113]

What she said about Iggy didn't really make sense and was pretty racist too.

Its not racist ........

Its like when Katy dressed up as a geisha for her japanesse performance .....

She got a lot of heat for it cause she wasn't Japanese .............why ? Cause she poorly executed something she what she thought was "Japanese"

Iggy is poorly creating something that thinks it's "rap"

[Daxclamation 7]

Are you a vegetarian? if not

I am, actually. I wouldn't be that hypocritical. I understand people will always continue to kill and eat animals, but they should at least try to do it in a humane way. 

[codymonster 8,360]

Her crying and ragging on Iggy is passionate, but completely and utterly misinformed and ignorant.  It makes me upset that she can't look past her color, and just strive to kick ass herself.  She's going on about Bill Cosby, and how its terrible that they're putting him on the news for that. That's stupid.  She needs to stop wallowing in this pity for herself and rise up.  Yes, racism is alive and present.  But there are IMMENSELY bigger issues than a white woman rapping.  She needs to rise above it all and grow up, because her speech was so misinformed in this video. So what if the majority of US loves Iggy. Shut the **** up and deal with it.  They're not being racist, they just like her music and connect more with it.  She's almost making it sound like the only way that US will NOT be racist is if black people's rap music is always on top.  Is that not then racism? 

 

I'm not saying she doesn't have it bad.  But people need to be more like Beyonce.  **** all the color ****. Be who you wanna be and earn it.  Beyonce isn't complaining that white girls dominate pop music.  She instead makes killer pop music and dominates pop music.  Simple as that.

 

There comes a time when you need to stop complaining over the stupid little things, and rise up above it all.

[KyliesChild 16,907]

I love her even more now omg

[Cody Draco 2,531]

Daaammmn .....she called t.i a coon

One second I'm a coon then suddenly the coon is me :nooo:

 

I just looked coon up and it says that it is similar to the n word. I didn't know that, it's good thing I looked it up before using it on people. :nooo:

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Her crying and ragging on Iggy is passionate, but completely and utterly misinformed and ignorant.  It makes me upset that she can't look past her color, and just strive to kick ass herself.  She's going on about Bill Cosby, and how its terrible that they're putting him on the news for that. That's stupid.  She needs to stop wallowing in this pity for herself and rise up.  Yes, racism is alive and present.  But there are IMMENSELY bigger issues than a white woman ripping.  She needs to rise above it all and grow up, because her speech was so misinformed in this video.

I'm not saying she doesn't have it bad.  But people need to be more like Beyonce.  **** all the color ****. Be who you wanna be and earn it.  Beyonce isn't complaining that white girls dominate pop music.  She instead makes killer pop music and dominates pop music.  Simple as that.

 

There comes a time when you need to stop complaining over the stupid little things, and rise up above it all.

You mean to tell me if Iggy was an ordinary black women, Fancy would have been as big of a hit? 

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I am, actually. I wouldn't be that hypocritical. I understand people will always continue to kill and eat animals, but they should at least try to do it in a humane way. 

honestly for every one animal killed a humane way there are always going to be hundreds of animals slaughtered 

[Willy Wonka 4]

Usually liking a culture goes along with liking it's people. I like British culture, I like British people.

That's goes especially when you're as deeply immersed as Iggy.

 

Blacks friends are one thing ... a black mentor and black boyfriend are another.

 

PSY is not beautiful or thin, yet people love Gangham Style.

A lot of black rappers are equally distant from white beauty standards. They are very "other" to normal white society with their hairstyles and fashion.

 

You see everything through ideological blinders it seems. Reality is more messy. Not everything fits your narrative.

Besides choking on my water when you said Iggy was "deeply immersed", no.

 

Once again, that comment was not directed at Iggy. It was about American society in general. 

 

I want you to think about the statement "liking a culture usually means liking its people". Well, you don't need me to tell you that white people routinely stole from black music while refusing to integrate black people into white society. Nor do you need me to tell you that Americans ****ing love their Mexican food, but there was a huge controversy when a Hispanic kid sang the National Anthem at a sporting event.

 

Liking a culture has nothing to do with accepting a people.

 

I'm not going to get into the fact that having a black boss means nothing (omg really she lets a black person hire her? wow then she's definitely not racist?) and that you can date a black person and still fetishize black culture. (The fetishization/eroticization/exoticization of black men is a huge issue and is pretty damn racist.)

 

You're using a one-hit wonder whose one hit was a novelty track to try and argue anything regarding race? Really? I laughed when I read that. I thought you were joking and then I realized you weren't. Furthermore, the beauty standards weren't even the focus of that point. The point is that black people who participate in black culture are viewed negatively by society, while white people who participate in black culture are seen as cool and edgy and exciting. 

 

You're trying to tell me that "reality is messy" while telling me if people like a culture, they like the people; that if you date a black person, you can't be racist; and that the success of a novelty song shows that appearance has nothing to do with success. That sounds pretty simplistic. You're preaching complexity while making weak-to-non-existent, simple arguments. At the end of the day, I don't know what I should've expected from the guy who was so fixated on hating the "black bigot" Lauryn Hill that he refused to let go of a disproved urban legend about a quote she never said. Reality has never been your strong suit, craig. Reality may be messy, but you're much messier.

Her crying and ragging on Iggy is passionate, but completely and utterly misinformed and ignorant.  It makes me upset that she can't look past her color, and just strive to kick ass herself.  She's going on about Bill Cosby, and how its terrible that they're putting him on the news for that. That's stupid.  She needs to stop wallowing in this pity for herself and rise up.  Yes, racism is alive and present.  But there are IMMENSELY bigger issues than a white woman rapping.  She needs to rise above it all and grow up, because her speech was so misinformed in this video. So what if the majority of US loves Iggy. Shut the **** up and deal with it.  They're not being racist, they just like her music and connect more with it.  She's almost making it sound like the only way that US will NOT be racist is if black people's rap music is always on top.  Is that not then racism? 

 

I'm not saying she doesn't have it bad.  But people need to be more like Beyonce.  **** all the color ****. Be who you wanna be and earn it.  Beyonce isn't complaining that white girls dominate pop music.  She instead makes killer pop music and dominates pop music.  Simple as that.

 

There comes a time when you need to stop complaining over the stupid little things, and rise up above it all.

This is just flat-out unfortunate. For someone calling someone else "completely and utterly misinformed and ignorant", yikes. What a disaster.

 

And I'm guessing you're white, right?

[codymonster 8,360]

You mean to tell me if Iggy was an ordinary black women, Fancy would have been as big of a hit? 

Yes. Fancy was popular because of the chorus. It was catchy as ****.  Then, after that exploded, people took notice to Iggy. Just like Nicki exploded onto the scene through rapping on other people's songs and then coming out with her own solo stuff.  Nicki made it, so why can't Azealia? She's using her color as an excuse and a crutch, and it's sad to see. She needs to rise above it.