Imma make this gay-ass music, and y’all are going to jump to it.” I was like, “Oh, whatever, who gives a fuck. It’s just all these unwritten rules of Blackness, and what’s appropriate for Blackness, and the rules change every fucking day. When I came out with “212,” I was actually the first artist to just be like: “Oh, this is gay, this is our hip-hop” - you hear what I’m saying? And it’s a very deep conversation, which I really don’t care to have. I think the memes of yesteryear were way more intelligent, way funnier, way brasher - they were less censored John Lennon wrote a song called “Woman Is the Nigger of the World,” and here we are years later calling it one of the best songs of all time. On John Lennon’s “Woman is the Nigger of the World:” It’s almost like the unwritten rules of Blackness, it’s like the unwritten rules of just how to conduct yourself. They’re selling ideas, lifestyles, whatever comes out of liberal academia’s ass. But right now, he’s kind of just like a cultural figure. When Kanye puts some music out that is important, then I guess we can have that conversation. He’s been, I guess, selling sneakers and doing outrageous shit, everything but the music. I don’t have to talk about that which is beneath me. Listen to the last five years of Kanye West’s music. On if anything created by the next generation excites or inspires her: It’s the most devalued art form in all the art forms. It’s about as chaotic an interview can be in 1500 words.įor everyone that’s here for it and do it or don’t cause she got places to be – here are the choice quotes from Azealia Banks Interview With Rolling Stone. She capped it off with a request for a call from Larry David. Banks who has been suspended on Twitter for transphobic tweets explained how Black women are immune to the invisible hand of cancel culture while offering a few other explosive takes. Woman makes straight bangers and truly does not give a fuck.īanks delivered a characteristically brash and no-nonsense interview to the magazine answering questions on everything from Kanye West who she considers herself superior, to Russell Crowe who spat on the rapper and called her racial epithets. Call it dangerous, call it hilarious – Banks’ public persona is as unpredictable as her rhythm and flow. The contagious social media slap jack / Queen of Mean & “these streets” chatted with Rolling Stone in update of her upcoming album and in celebration of the upcoming tenth anniversary for her quintessential “212,” our pick for best song of last decade.īanks is arguably more famous for her outrageous opinions that should be taken with an entire box of salt. An Azealia Banks re-appraisal and comeback seems on the way and we are 100% here for it.
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