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Azealia Banks was a guest on Hot 97's Ebro In the Morning show on Thursday, December 18. The conversation covered many topics. Tears were shed as Banks spoke about problems with her previous record label, the media focusing their attention on Bill Cosby, while the Eric Garner and Michael Brown killings by police are still fresh in our collective memories, America owing African Americans reparations, T.I. being a coon for letting VH1 make fun of the fact his wife Tiny can't read and her issues with Iggy Azalea.
On Iggy Azalea
Here's the thing with Iggy Azalea. I feel just like in this country whenever it comes to [African American's] things like black issues, black politics, black music or whatever, there's always this undercurrent of kind of like a 'fuck you.' It's like, 'Fuck y'all niggas, y'all don't really own shit.' You know what I'm saying? That Macklemore album wasn't better than the Drake record. That Iggy Azalea shit is not better than any black girl that's rapping today. When they give those awards out... the Grammys are supposed to be accolades for artistic excellence. Iggy Azalea is not excellent. The message I see when I see these Grammys being given out, 'cuz it's bigger than playing the shit on the radio. I don't give a fuck. That's fine bitch, do what you're gonna do. But I have a problem when you're trying to say that it's hip hop. And you're tying to put it up against black culture. Nicki Minaj over the past two, three four years has done so much to kinda create this social presence and this hold on social consciousness. And she [put's out] Re-Up: Roman Reloaded and then you got fucking Iggy [with] Reclassified. You're trying to smudge out. It's like a cultural smudging is what I see. And when they give theses Grammys out all it says to white kids kids is, You're great, you're amazing. You can do whatever you put your mind to. And it says to black kids, 'You don't have shit, you don't own shit. Not even the shit you created for yourself.' And it makes me upset.
Breaks down crying while speaking on reparations and America slighting African Americans by stealing their culture and not acknowledging their artistic accolades.
Now everybody knows that the basis of modern capitalism is slave labor. Really the trading and selling of these slaves. There are fucking huge corporations that are still caking off that slave money. So, until y'all motherfuckers are ready to talk about what y'all owe me... whether's the number $7 trillion or $8 trillion or $9 trillion. At the very fucking least y'all owe me the right to my identity. And to not exploit that shit. That's all that we're holding onto in hip hop/rap
On T.I. and Tiny
Here you got got coon head ass T.I. You're out here trying to promote this white bitch and they got your wife on VH1 and that bitch can't fucking read. That's really how I feel about you. You're a shoe shining coon. How dare you. I take that personally. You're a fucking coon. Your wife can't read. And they got her on TV. They got the sound affects [going off when she reads].
Iggy saw the interview and fired back via Twitter.
It didn't take long for Banks to respond
Well, damn!!
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