Azealia Banks on Twitter: "But, iffy azuzu will not play victim"

[ByeBye49 161]

I never thought I would say this, but I am done with AB.

[Yanko 9,860]

https://twitter.com/AZEALIABANKS/status/545876998347046912

[craig 680]

I'm so sick of this Xenophobe American girl acting like her sub-culture is entitled to run music forever.

Iggy increases real ethnic diversity in rap, and you will deal.

 

Ms. Banks, as a black AMERICAN, you are "privileged" with opportunities in music relative to people in a lot of countries. And you don't ever see it.

[Yanko 9,860]

https://twitter.com/AZEALIABANKS/status/545879070912053250

[RAMROD 97,050]

Iffy Azuzu :lmao:

Azuzu

[craig 680]

American blacks made a minstrel show out of rap long ago. I can quote critics in the black community to that effect too. Stereotyping themselves and gangstas for money. Iggy isn't nearly as bad as some.

[Yanko 9,860]

iffy azuzu igloo australia itchy areola  

[Dann 354]

https://twitter.com/AZEALIABANKS/status/545876998347046912

[Bear 7,515]

She needs to stop aiming her arguments at Iggy  She is making some good points, but it's making her looked pressed. 

[SlaeUrAnus 14,749]

Using Iggy's name yet again to try and sell

*awaits Azaelia stans*

[2007 5,291]

Could a human really be that dumb? Like really.

[Hope 2,030]

This imbecile trash :air:

[Cher 15]

For those who don’t get the issue Azealia has been trying to explain and why she’s chosen Iggy to be her target, let me explain.

Imagine you were great at your craft - where you’re virtually understood to be really ****ing good at what you do. You’re considered forward-thinking and skilled as a creative. Your skill is unmatched. Now imagine others, whose music is not as good and their craft not as technically good as yours, being awarded while you’re ignored. It would be frustrating.

Now imagine how frustrating it is when the reality is that the mediocre product is being praised because a white woman has made it, while you have to work 20x as hard just to have 10% of the recognition the white woman has to get because you’re a black woman.

Now imagine this happening in a genre that is supposed to be your people’s safe haven. Black little boys and girls don’t get to dream about being big pop stars or country stars or rock stars. They get only one little slice of the ****ing pie they had to work to carve out and create and are told “this is yours - we will demonize it and use it to portray your people as uneducated and dangerous thugs who deserve to be shot, but its yoursâ€. Then its taken from you. “Hip hop is now whiteâ€. The one thing you had, the thing society uses to justify the killing of your people and to literally demonize your culture is now chic and something cool for white people to do (with mediocre results) and they’re awarded for it.

It’s a reminder for black people that this world isn’t yours and it was never meant to be - that you are the other, you are the outsider and nothing is yours and will be taken for the gain of white people no matter how good you are; anything done by a white person will be praised more, considered better and received better because many societies on this Earth are still rooted in the teachings of white supremacy.

This isn’t about Iggy, but her being a documented racist doesn’t help her case and she, due to her own fault, is now the face of white privilege, of white mediocrity. Little white girls can grow up and dream about being anything they want, to some restrictions, but little black girls? Nobody in this world cares about little black girls and we teach little black girls not to even care about themselves.

When Azealia Banks is on the radio, cursing Igloo out and angry and pissed off and maybe saying things she shouldn’t, she’s coming from a place of anger and hurt and putting her foot down as a black woman and saying - “**** you. You’ve taken everything else from me. You’ve taken everything you can from my people and forced us to make this through our own pain and struggle that you caused. You can’t have it. You have everything else due to simply being white, you will not take the one thing black people have worked hard to keep and make for themselves against centuries of modern ****ing institutional oppression and racism. **** you.â€

For all you idiots not understanding

[yxi 4,999]

She's so immature and stupid, i'm glad she'll remain a bitter nobody

[amenART 429]

it's so sad that she is creating this pointless stupid feud, just let her be