Azealia Banks zeigte sich zuletzt sehr unglücklich mit der Tendenz, dass immer mehr weiße Rapper erfolgreich sind. Leute wie Iggy Azalea würden sich verhalten und vermarkten, als wären sie schwarz, sich dann aber nicht mit soziopolitischen Problemen der schwarzen Kultur auseinandersetzen. Das Interview, in dem Banks vor Frustration sogar weint, findet ihr hier. Iggy reagierte irgendwie beleidigt und beleidigend - nachvollziehbar?
Special msg for banks: There are many black artists succeeding in all genres. The reason you haven't is because of your piss poor attitude.
— IGGY AZALEA (@IGGYAZALEA) 19. Dezember 2014
Your inability to be responsible for your own mistakes, bullying others, the inability to be humble or have self control. It's YOU!
— IGGY AZALEA (@IGGYAZALEA) 19. Dezember 2014
you created your own unfortunate situation by being a bigot and don't have the mental capacity to realize yet. Probably never will.
— IGGY AZALEA (@IGGYAZALEA) 19. Dezember 2014
Now! rant, Make it racial! make it political! Make it whatever but I guarantee it won't make you likable & THATS why ur crying on the radio.
— IGGY AZALEA (@IGGYAZALEA) 19. Dezember 2014
Enjoy continuing to bang your head against that metaphoric brick wall & Savor this attention. I'm the only way you get ANY.
— IGGY AZALEA (@IGGYAZALEA) 19. Dezember 2014
You're poisonous and I feel genuinely sorry for you because it's obvious at this point you are a MISERABLE, angry human being. Regards!
— IGGY AZALEA (@IGGYAZALEA) 19. Dezember 2014
Daraufhin fühlte sich niemand geringeres als Q-Tip dazu berufen, Azalea eine kleine Geschichtsstunde in Sachen "soziopolitische und kulturelle Bedeutung von Hiphop" zu erteilen. Weise Worte eines weisen Mannes. Selbstverständlich auf Twitter:
@IGGYAZALEA HipHop is a artistic and socio-political movement/culture that sprang from the disparate ghettos of NY in the early 70's
— QTip (@QtipTheAbstract) 20. Dezember 2014
@IGGYAZALEA Coming off the heels of the CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT and approaching the end of the Vietnam war it was a crossroads 4 America
— QTip (@QtipTheAbstract) 20. Dezember 2014
@IGGYAZALEA specially for blacks in the US our neighborhoods were PROLIFERATED w/a rush of HEROINE
— QTip (@QtipTheAbstract) 20. Dezember 2014
@IGGYAZALEA our school systems here in NY dungeon traps with light for learning
— QTip (@QtipTheAbstract) 20. Dezember 2014
@IGGYAZALEA blk men some of whom didn't return from tours of duty n the ones who did came w/war baggage (agent orange, addiction, ect..)
— QTip (@QtipTheAbstract) 20. Dezember 2014
@IGGYAZALEA these men had families but due to these events and throw into the mix the public emasculation...
— QTip (@QtipTheAbstract) 20. Dezember 2014
@IGGYAZALEA they proved to be handicapped parents. The surrogate parents? The STREETS
— QTip (@QtipTheAbstract) 20. Dezember 2014
@IGGYAZALEA the streets of gangs, crimes, and the hustlers coddled us and swept us up
— QTip (@QtipTheAbstract) 20. Dezember 2014
@IGGYAZALEA but! Being a spirited, rhythmic & expressive people music art dance outlined our existence
— QTip (@QtipTheAbstract) 20. Dezember 2014
@IGGYAZALEA it proved a way for us to exhault to scream to dance to laugh and find OUR VOICE
— QTip (@QtipTheAbstract) 20. Dezember 2014
@IGGYAZALEA we weren't at the time skilled musicians as kids. We had records, turntables, ideas and INGENUITY
— QTip (@QtipTheAbstract) 20. Dezember 2014
@IGGYAZALEA being natural chemist we took from whatever was availed to us and we created something mighty and special
— QTip (@QtipTheAbstract) 20. Dezember 2014
@IGGYAZALEA we cut breakbeats back n forth we took a hybrid of Jamaican toasting along w/ radio jock rap( hank Spann, Gary Byrd, ect.) and
— QTip (@QtipTheAbstract) 20. Dezember 2014
@IGGYAZALEA we put our rap down..
— QTip (@QtipTheAbstract) 20. Dezember 2014
@IGGYAZALEA it was a neighborhood thing really. Black and Latino Kids were carving out their space and it became infectious
— QTip (@QtipTheAbstract) 20. Dezember 2014
@IGGYAZALEA eventually Keith Cowboy coined the phrase hiphop . Yrs later the first rap record was recorded and now we r moving
— QTip (@QtipTheAbstract) 20. Dezember 2014
@IGGYAZALEA but during these strides this country still had the monster of racism and racial insensitivity breathing and ruling
— QTip (@QtipTheAbstract) 20. Dezember 2014
@IGGYAZALEA believe it or not young black n Latino lives specifically weren't acknowledged in mainstream American culture unless Ofcourse..
— QTip (@QtipTheAbstract) 20. Dezember 2014
@IGGYAZALEA the convo was abt gangs , being criminals or uneducated. And hey! Like I stated early our families were rushed our schools
— QTip (@QtipTheAbstract) 20. Dezember 2014
@IGGYAZALEA sucked and we were left to put devices to survive
— QTip (@QtipTheAbstract) 20. Dezember 2014
@IGGYAZALEA but HIPHOP showed that we had DEPTH, fire, and BRILLANCE
— QTip (@QtipTheAbstract) 20. Dezember 2014
@IGGYAZALEA the music was undeniable! It moved from NY N became national and even GLOBAL
— QTip (@QtipTheAbstract) 20. Dezember 2014
@IGGYAZALEA hiphop now was FOR EVERYBODY!! All of those who cld relate to the roots, the spirit, the history, the energy.. It reached YOU
— QTip (@QtipTheAbstract) 20. Dezember 2014
@IGGYAZALEA it touched your spirit n took u up. We magnetized you! That's what BRILLANCE does
— QTip (@QtipTheAbstract) 20. Dezember 2014
@IGGYAZALEA now u are fulfilling your dreams ... BUT!
— QTip (@QtipTheAbstract) 20. Dezember 2014
@IGGYAZALEA you have to take into account the HISTORY as you move underneath the banner of hiphop. As I said before
— QTip (@QtipTheAbstract) 20. Dezember 2014
@IGGYAZALEA hiphop is fun it's vile it's dance it's traditional it's light hearted but 1 thing it can never detach itself from
— QTip (@QtipTheAbstract) 20. Dezember 2014
@IGGYAZALEA is being a SOCIO-Political movement. U may ask why ... Well
— QTip (@QtipTheAbstract) 20. Dezember 2014
@IGGYAZALEA once you are born black your existence I believe is joined with socio-political epitaph and philos
— QTip (@QtipTheAbstract) 20. Dezember 2014
@IGGYAZALEA based on the tangled and treacherous history SLAVERY alone this is the case
— QTip (@QtipTheAbstract) 20. Dezember 2014
@IGGYAZALEA it never leaves our conversation... Ever. WeAther in our universities our dinner tables our studios or jail cells
— QTip (@QtipTheAbstract) 20. Dezember 2014
@IGGYAZALEA the effects still resononates with us. It hurts... We get emotional and angry and melancholy
— QTip (@QtipTheAbstract) 20. Dezember 2014
@IGGYAZALEA did u know president Clinton was the ONLY PRESIDENT to apologize for it?
— QTip (@QtipTheAbstract) 20. Dezember 2014
@IGGYAZALEA did u know that remnants of slavery exist today thru white privilege? When certain "niceties" r extended your way because of
— QTip (@QtipTheAbstract) 20. Dezember 2014
@IGGYAZALEA how u look? Isn't that crazy? I say this 2 say u are a hiphop artist who has the right 2 express herself however she wishes
— QTip (@QtipTheAbstract) 20. Dezember 2014
@IGGYAZALEA this is not a chastisement this is not admonishment at ALL this is just one artist reaching to another hoping to spark insight
— QTip (@QtipTheAbstract) 20. Dezember 2014
@IGGYAZALEA into the field you r in. I say this in the spirit of a hopeful healthy dialogue that maybe one day we can continue
— QTip (@QtipTheAbstract) 20. Dezember 2014
@IGGYAZALEA I've been on twitter a long time and this will probably be my last series of tweets pretty much but
— QTip (@QtipTheAbstract) 20. Dezember 2014
@IGGYAZALEA I'm Kool with it as long as I got to share this w u. Zzzzzzz's up! Peace!
— QTip (@QtipTheAbstract) 20. Dezember 2014