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Celeb News: Azealia praises Rihanna, shades Iggy and Kreayshawn
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Azealia praises Rihanna, shades Iggy and Kreayshawn
Independent Chanteuse Azealia Banks has discussed her peers in a recent interview with ID Magazine in which she praises Rihanna and gives her opinion on Iggy Azalea & Kreayshawn.
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After riding the 212 hype to major label signing, before seemingly sitting in development limbo for two years, Azealia Banks was finally released from her contract with Universal earlier this month, freeing her to release the album we’ve all been waiting two years for. Today she releases a new single, Heavy Metal and Reflective, and it looks like we might finally hear an album that’s been five years in the making, and which she has been working on with producers as diverse as Lone and Ariel Pink, and the man behind Adele and Florence + The Machine, Paul Epworth. If Nicki Minaj is the Lil Kim of now, then Azealia is the Foxy Brown: chill, deep, sexual and street-smart.
Despite today’s Rihanna T-shirt (aping the style of a Nirvana tour tee), she’s not going to be pumping out material at the rate of everyone’s fave Bajan. “Rihanna has writers, so it’s easier for her to come out with things every year because she’s in a think tank, you know? I’m sure she is enjoying her nice money and her nice hair and body products. You know, nice perfume and expensive shoes and I’m pretty sure she’s enjoying her life.” This almost comes off like RiRi resentment, before the praise pours forth. “I love her because she’s young, she’s rich, she’s beautiful. She’s not frantic about anything. She’s not trying to pretend. She’s like, ‘Yeah, so I get my songs written? So what, bitch? You wish you got your songs written. I’m making money.’”
Azealia admires the authenticity of RiRi, proudly wearing the badge of mass-produced pop, adding, “Authenticity is definitely part of things I like.” When later quizzed about what ‘cool’ means to the girl who topped the NME Cool List back in 2011. “Anything that seems fake, or anything that seems like a lie, or anything that’s not the truth, I don’t like it,” she declares. Which is why she’s not sold on fellow female rappers Iggy Azalea and Kreayshawn.
Iggy Azalea (“Where the **** did you get that name from, bitch?”) is “some Australian girl who raps like a black girl. It’s kind of silly. Whatever, people are feeling it. She’s good-looking. I get it.” As for Kreayshawn… “When I was just following her on the internet I thought she was interesting and really kind of cool. I think it got to her head and got blown out of proportion and the next thing you know she’s dissing Rick Ross. Now she’s got that V-Nasty girl shouting the N-word trying to be controversial but offending people. This is gonna get you guys nowhere.”
So how can white MCs cut the mustard? “Just be yourself, that’s really what it is. I mean I get it: black women are the strongest, most confident women in the world. Of course you want to emulate us. I get that. But at the same time, listeners will appreciate it more in the long run if you are just yourself. Eminem did it. He didn’t have to make a mockery of anyone. Beastie Boys did it. They didn’t have to make a mockery of anyone. If you want to treat it as an art form, then really treat it as an art form. Don’t use it as a gateway into a culture that you want to be a part of. Black culture is fun to the rest of the world and they all want to be a part of that, but there are certain things that are sacred to us and certain things that you will never be fully accepted into. That’s just my take on it.”
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She’s like, ‘Yeah, so I get my songs written? So what, bitch? You wish you got your songs written. I’m making money
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And ATRL should learn that. 
Lemme stream HM&R again.
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Iggy Azalea (“Where the **** did you get that name from, bitch?”)
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I SCREAMED
But praise Queen Rih
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COLLABO PLEASE 
Ive been beging ever since ive heard the best female rap song of all times, 212. 
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I cant at the iggy shade 
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JESUS that last paragraph is EVERY THING
i'm convinced she's been reading my posts here.
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JESUS that last paragraph is EVERY THING
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IKR right?
She's really smart, but she just has to shut up sometimes.
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Again with the hate on Iggy because she's a white rapper, reductive 
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She better praise Rih 
No lies spotted tho! She's so real, I love her  and...
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Just be yourself, that’s really what it is. I mean I get it: black women are the strongest, most confident women in the world. Of course you want to emulate us. I get that. But at the same time, listeners will appreciate it more in the long run if you are just yourself.
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She's pretty smart, but she needs to edit herself sometimes.
The new song slays. 
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Again with the hate on Iggy because she's a white rapper, reductive |
It's NOT because she's a white rapper, it's because she's a white rapper trying to be/sound black. As she said: Be authentic. Eminem, Beastie Boys did it.
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Can someone please say me what a MC is? No jokes please :,skull:
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She’s not frantic about anything. She’s not trying to pretend. She’s like, ‘Yeah, so I get my songs written? So what, bitch? You wish you got your songs written. I’m making money.’”
...the authenticity of RiRi, proudly wearing the badge of mass-produced pop,
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No lies here
I do agree with the Iggy comments (dead @ “Where the **** did you get that name from, bitch?”  ) Her good looks really do compensate for her mediocre rap ability.
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It's NOT because she's a white rapper, it's because she's a white rapper trying to be/sound black. As she said: Be authentic. Eminem, Beastie Boys did it. |
Well, let's let the good sis wish she was black. Nothing wrong with that.
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Can someone please say me what a MC is? No jokes please :,skull:
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Mostly another word for a rapper.
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It's NOT because she's a white rapper, it's because she's a white rapper trying to be/sound black. As she said: Be authentic. Eminem, Beastie Boys did it. |
I think it's just because she's a bad rapper full stop, in Azealia's eyes. She feels like a product as apposed to an Artist. Like her whole look & sound was moulded to try and click with the public. I think that's how pretty AB see's it anyway.
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