Azealia Banks has spoken about former collaborator Kanye West in a brand new interview, claiming that he “hates all girls”.
Again in 2012, Banks confirmed that she had labored with West on quite a lot of tracks that had been by no means launched.
In a brand new interview with the The Guardian, Banks known as West a “grifter” and mentioned that whereas they had been working collectively, “there was a tradition in hip-hop that dark-skinned girls had been ugly.”
“To satisfy him and listen to him speak shit about Kim Kardashian [around the time they started dating] it gave me slightly little bit of glee, since you’re younger, and also you’re dumb, and also you don’t get it but. Once you’re getting all this messaging from hip-hop that you’re precisely the kind of Black lady that it doesn’t need, and then you definitely meet somebody that you simply like, as a result of the music is so good, and he’s like: ‘I hate this white bitch’ – you’re like: ‘Yesss!’”
“As time goes on, it’s like: ‘Wait, you hated my Black ass, too! You hate all girls’,” Banks added. She confirmed that her angle in direction of Kanye West modified in 2020 when, throughout his first presidential rally, he spoke about wanting Kim to abort their first baby.
Banks mentioned West was “a fucking fool for principally sacrificing the psychological well being of [his] daughter.”
“Kanye, you’re an abusive asshole and also you’re a pussy for choosing on that little-ass lady. You’re the final particular person we have to hear from about Black fatherhood and the Black household unit,” she added.
In current months, West has been caught up in a string of controversies together with carrying a White Lives Matter t-shirt throughout Paris Style Week and making quite a few anti-Semitic statements to widespread backlash.
When requested if she sees a method again for West, Banks informed The Guardian “I might hope not – as a result of you may have had it very fucked up for a really very long time.”
“Kanye, do you know that the Bible was the very guide used to enslave your dumb ass? Have you ever ever learn the Bible? I’m certain you haven’t. ‘Oh, Hitler was a very good man’ – do you suppose Hitler favored negroes? It’s well beyond shock tradition and simply into stupidity,” she continued.
“You should reap what you sow. Sooner or later, while you’re strolling down Instances Sq. and also you see Kanye West ingesting flat Sprite out of a McDonald’s cup out of the rubbish can, you’ll be able to carry all of it again to this second.”
Final month, watchdog group StopAntisemitism named West “Antisemite of the 12 months”. Talking to TMZ, the group’s govt director Liora Rez mentioned West had used his platform “to push harmful antisemitic tropes about Jews” and that his feedback had “resulted in horrific antisemitic acts”. Rez added that hatred in direction of Jewish folks is “uncontrolled in the US” and that West was “add[ing] gas to that fireplace”.
