The 23-year-old rapper says in a candid interview with Playboy that she wants to leave the U.S. because she hates 'everything about this country' and 'fat white Americans.'
- Mar 17, 2015
AceShowbiz - Azealia Banks lashes out at America in an interview with Playboy Magazine's April issue. The "Ice Princess" rapper says she wants to leave the U.S. because she hates the country. "Yes! I hate everything about this country," she shares, "Like, I hate fat white Americans."
She continues, "All the people who are crunched into the middle of America, the real fat and meat of America, are these racist conservative white people who live on their farms. Those little teenage girls who work at Kmart and have a racist grandma-that's really America."
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— Playboy (@Playboy) March 16, 2015Asked if there's any person whose career she would like to emulate, Azealia says, "Jay-Z. That's the only person I have my eye set on. The race thing always comes up, but I want to get there being very black and proud and boisterous about it. You get what I mean? A lot of times when you're a black woman and you're proud, that's why people don't like you."
She then expresses her dislike for Pharrell Williams, Kendrick Lamar and Kanye West who have been "nonthreatening black person." The "Chasing Time" rapper shares, "In American society, the game is to be a nonthreatening black person. That's why you have Pharrell or Kendrick Lamar saying, 'How can we expect people to respect us if we don't respect ourselves?' He's playing that nonthreatening black man s**t, and that gets all the white soccer moms going, 'We love him.' Even Kanye West plays a little bit of that game-'Please accept me, white world.' Jay Z hasn't played any of those games, and that's what I like."
Azealia, who has famously ignited feuds with Iggy Azalea, Lady GaGa, Eminem and Nicki Minaj, defends herself in the interview, saying that she's labeled "angry" while other stars like Lorde are not. "It's always about race. Lorde can run her mouth and talk s**t about all these other b****es, but y'all aren't saying she's angry. If I have something to say, I get pushed into the corner."
Asked why she always brings up the topic, the "212" rapper says, "Because y'all motherf***ers still owe me reparations! [laughs] That's why it's still about race. Really, the generational effects of Jim Crow and poverty linger on. As long as I have my money, I'm getting the f**k out of here and I'm gonna leave y'all to your own devices."
In the interview, Azealia also reveals that she likes dating older men. She recalls her longest relationship with a 43-year-old man when she was 17. "It started when I was 17. He was 43. There's something very wrong with a man that age who wants to date a 17-year-old girl. I didn't know how to shave my bush and s**t like that. I had a hairy p***y. I didn't know how to wear perfume. I had neon pink barrettes in my hair. And as '212' started to pop off and my career started to happen, he became jealous. He choked me and beat me up, and of course you should not be f***ing with a man who puts his hands on you, but I was stupid and young."
She says she likes dating older men because "the things in an older man's house are better-his furniture, even his knives and his pots. And they smell better. Young guys, they may skip a shower and s**t like that."
Azealia, who is a bisexual, says she's rarely hit by women because most of them are "scared" of her. "People have always been scared of me. I punched my teacher in the face one time when I was in preschool. We were playing house, and the lady was like, 'I'm a monster! I'm gonna eat your family!' I punched her right in the eye. [laughs] It was a Head Start program, so I was three."
