Azealia Banks produziert aktuell via Twitter mehr News als durch ihre Musik. Ihr neustes Opfer ist Kendrick Lamar und damit macht sie sich wohl nicht nur Freunde.
Einige Dinge, die Kendrick im Interview mit dem Billboard Magazine gesagt hat, scheinen der 23-jährigen Rapperin ganz schön zu missfallen.
Zum Beispiel steht K-Dot einem von Banks' Lieblingszielen, Iggy Azalea, zur Seite: "She's doing her thing, let her. (...) Do your thing, continue to rock it, because obviously God wants you here."
Besonders die Stellungnahme zur Polizeigewalt gegen Afroamerikaner findet Banks so gar nicht cool. Kendrick sagt im Interview:
"I wish somebody would look in our neighborhood knowing that it's already a situation, mentally, where it's fucked up. What happened to [Michael Brown] should've never happened. Never. But when we don't have respect for ourselves, how do we expect them to respect us?"
Azealia Banks reagierte mit einer Reihe von Tweets, in denen auch so manche diskussionswürdige Ausdrucksweise steckt. Aus der wohlbehüteten Ferne lässt sich schwer beurteilen, inwiefern und wie stark die Gesellschaft in den Staaten wirklich gespalten ist, aber Banks' schwarz-weißes Denken klingt nicht gerade förderlich für ein friedliches Miteinander.
Sie schreibt unter anderem: "HOW DARE YOU open ur face to a white publication and tell them that we don't respect ourselves.... Speak for your fucking self."
Ebenfalls mindestens fragwürdig: "And fuck all this shit about erasing racial barriers and getting along... Why does white America think blacks even wanna be here?!"
Bilde dir selbst deine Meinung – den Artikel zum Kendrick-Interview gibt's hier, Azealia Banks' Tweets findest du weiter unten.
"When we don't respect ourselves how can we expect them to respect us" dumbest shit I've ever heard a black man say.
— AZEALIA BANKS (@AZEALIABANKS) 9. Januar 2015Lol do you know about the generational effects of poverty, racism and discrimination?
— AZEALIA BANKS (@AZEALIABANKS) 9. Januar 2015There are things in society that benefit a select few of us. fine.... But don't put down the rest by saying they don't respect themselves
— AZEALIA BANKS (@AZEALIABANKS) 9. Januar 2015HOW DARE YOU open ur face to a white publication and tell them that we don't respect ourselves.... Speak for your fucking self.
— AZEALIA BANKS (@AZEALIABANKS) 9. Januar 2015I really pray for the minds of the urban youth, I really do because I was once on the side of feeling like I wasn't owed anything...
— AZEALIA BANKS (@AZEALIABANKS) 9. Januar 2015Once on the side of feeling like black people ain't shit because that's what America and my social studies textbooks taught me
— AZEALIA BANKS (@AZEALIABANKS) 9. Januar 2015Becoming an adult and doing my own research has REALLY opened up my fucking eyes, and I get upset to know that.....
— AZEALIA BANKS (@AZEALIABANKS) 9. Januar 2015There are still young black kids in our public schools being indoctrinated with the same shit they pumped into my head.
— AZEALIA BANKS (@AZEALIABANKS) 9. Januar 2015And fuck all this shit about erasing racial barriers and getting along... Why does white America think blacks even wanna be here?!
— AZEALIA BANKS (@AZEALIABANKS) 9. Januar 2015I really just want my fucking reparations, and want you guys to stop killing my sons and telling my daughters they're ugly.
— AZEALIA BANKS (@AZEALIABANKS) 9. Januar 2015
