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Video Clip: Azealia Banks on Hot 97
Member Since: 8/18/2013
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Wow. I respect her so much! Literally! Im blown away! Go AB!
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Member Since: 11/4/2006
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Why doesn't Mona Scott Young cast Azealia Banks on Love and Hip Hop? she would be good TV
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Member Since: 12/15/2011
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But her music is more dancy than actual hip hop.
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Member Since: 2/16/2012
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I can't believe I ended up watching that whole thing. I like her material, the record is great, but I don't stan for her by any means.
What a great interview, and a great personality. She's smart, mostly eloquent and it seems like her heart is in the right place... but sometimes she's just too blunt. Like, it's funny and she makes some great points, but it's not endearing her to people. "A spoonful of sugar", etc.
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Member Since: 10/14/2011
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Originally posted by IVY
But her music is more dancy than actual hip hop.
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What do you mean by dancy? Azealia blends Hip-Hop with house music from the 90's ballroom scene which was a predominantly BLACK, QUEER space. Shes a fusion artist that definitely reflects the Harlem environment which she grew up in.
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Member Since: 8/18/2013
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Member Since: 4/10/2012
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I died when she was talking about how she dumped her boyfriend because she worked at Starbucks and he was a broke ***** bc that's really how it be when you're so young and you get your first lil job and you just start thinking you are IT with your lil $200 paychecks lol
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Member Since: 8/19/2013
Posts: 25,476
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I finally was able to watch the full thing in its entirety and Azealia really ****ing HITTED and didn't spill not a single lie.
I'm still screaming at her T.I & Tiny Story + Draggings
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Member Since: 8/19/2013
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Originally posted by M##
I still love BOTH Azealia Banks and Iggy Azalea. They both have albums in my Top 10 of the year. Iggy is beautiful and handles herself gracefully. She might be putting on a act, but she does it well. She's a performer. I love The New Classic. Azealia doesn't handle herself as well, but I'll admit she is more talented. Her album is great, and she deserves more success.
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Tbh.
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Member Since: 8/16/2011
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Originally posted by IVY
But her music is more dancy than actual hip hop.
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Azealia doesn't consider her music to be hip hop tho
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Member Since: 8/31/2013
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Originally posted by Toya
I died when she was talking about how she dumped her boyfriend because she worked at Starbucks and he was a broke ***** bc that's really how it be when you're so young and you get your first lil job and you just start thinking you are IT with your lil $200 paychecks lol
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sameee, some people really took that comment serious tho.
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Member Since: 2/14/2012
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Originally posted by keerbyriri
For those who don’t get the issue Azealia has been trying to explain and why she’s chosen Iggy to be her target
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 yours”. Then its taken from you. “Hip hop is now white”. 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 - “f**k 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. f**k you.”
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I love you SO MUCH for that.
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Member Since: 9/7/2011
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Originally posted by keerbyriri
For those who don’t get the issue Azealia has been trying to explain and why she’s chosen Iggy to be her target
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 yours”. Then its taken from you. “Hip hop is now white”. 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 - “f**k 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. f**k you.”
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I can actually imagine this because there was a white guy who got famous singing Mexican music a couple of years ago. He said he loved our music and was influenced by it.
You know what I would say to him if he was in front me? I would say, thank you for taking interest in our music. I'm glad you see value in it. It gives us a sense of worth.
I wouldn't be BITTER and ANGRY and letting life pass me by complaining constantly. Doing nothing but wasting my time and energy on someone else on twitter instead of working on the music I love.
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Member Since: 11/4/2006
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I watched Azealia Banks' entire interview and I learned a lot more about her, and it was nice to see an artist be open, honest and emotionally break down without any apologies. Regardless if you agree or disagree with her message at the end of the day she said what she was HONESTLY thinking,
To many fake folks walk around, scared to say what they really feel because they are scared of offending the feelings police.
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Member Since: 8/31/2013
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Originally posted by Fireman25
I watched Azealia Banks' entire interview and I learned a lot more about her, and it was nice to see an artist be open, honest and emotionally break down without any apologies. Regardless if you agree or disagree with her message at the end of the day she said what she was HONESTLY thinking,
To many fake folks walk around, scared to say what they really feel because they are scared of offending the feelings police.
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Member Since: 8/31/2013
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Member Since: 10/2/2011
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Originally posted by happymess
Her mentioning the Bill Cosby situation isn't for defending his actions but more for the timing and racial tensions happening in America right now. You have Stephens Collins (a white father figure) admitting to molesting children but suffering no similar media denunciation at all.... but the users bringing up how she mentions Bill Cosby probably don't know who Stephen Collins is. That's exactly the element that she wants you all to see.
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I see what you're getting at but I honestly don't think they should be compared.
The Cosby Show was a MASSIVE cross-over, cultural institution at it's peak and Cosby at his peak was regarded as a massive, cross-demographic comedic icon in many respects.
7th Heaven at it's peak was a moderate hit to help the WB balance out the backlash for its other more risky (for the time) programming, nothing more.
The Stephen Collins situation should be getting more attention, but the attention is somewhat relative to their current cultural barometer's. Stephen's career essentially ended after 7th Heaven whereas Cosby still to this day had been going strong.
Whether Cosby's criticism is in proportion to his crimes is a different conversation but for Azealia to imply his situation should be handled more delicately because he served as some form of father figure/role-model for the African-American community in the past is treading on thin ice. I mean, try telling that to the victims.
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Member Since: 5/16/2011
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I find her strength, passion, personal and artistic madness so inspiring and progressive.
Finally bought my copy of BWET, I RARELY buy full albums.
Azealia has my full support til the end.
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Member Since: 11/21/2010
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Originally posted by iStanGaga
I can actually imagine this because there was a white guy who got famous singing Mexican music a couple of years ago. He said he loved our music and was influenced by it.
You know what I would say to him if he was in front me? I would say, thank you for taking interest in our music. I'm glad you see value in it. It gives us a sense of worth.
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Did that white guy get a grammy nom? #1s and being hail as the new king of Mexico?
How would you feel if he's being hail as the new king of Mexico?
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Member Since: 10/28/2011
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Originally posted by keerbyriri
For those who don’t get the issue Azealia has been trying to explain and why she’s chosen Iggy to be her target
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 yours”. Then its taken from you. “Hip hop is now white”. 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 - “f**k 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. f**k you.”
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SPEAK
DFDFGF
SO MUCH TRUTH
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