I want a friend for Azealia Banks. I really and truly do. The type of friend who can sit there for hours and say “mmm hmmm, I know right” to your various grievances while scrolling through her Instagram and occasionally showing you funny memes and bomb looks.
Azealia Banks looks to be gearing up for a legal battle against Russell Crowe, whom she has accused of spitting on her, choking her and calling her the n-word at one of his parties, which she attended with Wu-Tang Clan’s RZA.
In case you haven’t heard, no one showed up to Kanye West’s Yeezy X 2XU event in Sydney. First of all, I didn’t even know this was happening or a thing; nor do I know who or what a 2XU is.
Azealia Banks, “the poster child for self-destruction,” continues to sow her seeds of dissension by calling out yet another black woman in entertainment for some politically impossible standard of blackness that she herself cannot live up to.
She’s messy; she’s brilliant; she’s talented. At times insecure; has frequently been problematic; and at some point made a very illogical endorsement of Donald Trump. And if she sounds like someone else who made major headlines this week, it’s because both have their sanity questioned on the regular.
Just when we thought Kanye West was going to cause the most confusion this week, Azealia Banks popped up to give us another dose of her special brand of “Huh?” with an “Over/Under” video for Pitchfork as part of the promotional rounds for her new single and bona fide bop, “Anna Wintour.”
In the last couple of days of any given year and the first few of the one that follows, you may often hear people declare that they are cutting off people from their lives. Now more than ever, such proclamations are more visible thanks to social media. Unsurprisingly, this heightened visibility has spurred retaliatory…
Azealia Banks must have gotten common sense for Christmas, because she just issued an apology to Beyoncé.
When you cross two habitual, shit-talking line steppers, someone’s bound to get their feelings hurt. In this case, talk show host Wendy Williams seemed to get the better of Azealia Banks last week, bringing the controversial 26-year-old rapper to tears by implying that she was a prostitute.
Azealia Banks shared her own #MeToo story on Instagram when she recounted the abuse she says she experienced at the hands of Dave Holmes, her ex-boyfriend and Coldplay manager.
Earlier this week, Wu-Tang Clan member RZA had an interesting interview with Charlamagne tha God on The Breakfast Club. In that interview, he admitted that Russell Crowe did spit on Azealia Banks at a Hollywood party last year. Charlamagne asked RZA how he could let a man spit on a woman, and RZA basically shrugged,…
Remember last year, when Azealia Banks said that actor Russell Crowe spit on her and called her the n-word as he kicked her out of his party? And although Banks thought Wu-Tang founding member RZA would come to her defense, he did not and said that Banks was lying? Well, guess who’s fessing up now?
Some people will call Azealia Banks problematic and even crazy, but in a recent interview with Hot 97, RZA had nothing but glowing words to say about the rapper when it comes to his upcoming movie, Love Beats Rhymes, in which she stars.
Clapbacks are having the best week ever! There’s no one better than Rihanna when you’re talking clapbacks. Ms. Fenty has clapbacks down to a simple and sophisticated science that leaves all of your edges on the floor.
In 2015, rapper Azealia Banks was accused of biting a female bouncer outside New York City’s Up & Down nightclub. Banks was denied entrance into a private party and began yelling at the bouncers. Even after being allowed into the club, she continued her tirade. She was then removed by bouncer Christine Soares, who…
What’s more important than getting the dates correct for a Manhattan Criminal Court appearance? Paris Fashion Week, of course, if you’re Azealia Banks. Banks was scheduled for a court appearance Monday for a 2015 incident at a New York City nightclub where she was accused of attacking a female security guard and…
If you're reading The Root, chances are you at least know what it means to be “woke.” It's a level of consciousness that questions mightily and refuses to take things at face value. It's not quite Hotep, but if you're woke, you've allowed yourself to see what's real: systemic racism and a very strong disadvantage for…
“Intuition”
In a fair amount of ways, Azealia Banks and I have had similar life trajectories.
