Why We're Shitty for Turning on Azealia Banks
Azealia Banks is a sharp tongued raptress who is just as good at writing sonically restless raps that describe life as a woman in NYC as she is calling out those who deserve it. But, as you know, an opinionated black women with lethal wit and great social knowledge is a "threat" to the fragile image of the music industry.
Banks is known for calling out hipocrisy in the music and entertainment industries and is known for speaking out on the appropriation of hip hop by white artists. Mostly, Banks is known for her interview with Charlamagne Tha God, host of a very famous radio show, where she broke down the history of hip hop and how it applies to disenfranchised black youth. In this interview, Banks makes her case that hip hop has no room for artists like Iggy Azalea and Macklemore, two white artists who have dominated hip hop and used their privilege to undermine the successes of black artists like Kendrick Lamar and Nicki Minaj. Banks says that the aforementioned artists have appropriated the music genre and used it to their advantage while paying no homage to black artists that made the genre available to artists like them.
Honestly, I completely agree.
This was the first event that put Azealia Banks, the underground artist, in the spotlight. Twitter users and people who have no understanding of hip hop took to their computers and lambasted Banks saying she was just "mad because she had no record sales" and some even went on to make racebaiting comments.
It exacerbated to the point where Twitter banned Banks's account! A statement was released by Twitter saying Banks's language was seditious and incited violence against a community of people.
On the contrary though, Richard Spencer, in-famous neo-Nazi movement has a now "verified" status on Twitter. Why is it that black opinions seem more intimidating and demonstrative than white opinions?
Banks is known for calling out hipocrisy in the music and entertainment industries and is known for speaking out on the appropriation of hip hop by white artists. Mostly, Banks is known for her interview with Charlamagne Tha God, host of a very famous radio show, where she broke down the history of hip hop and how it applies to disenfranchised black youth. In this interview, Banks makes her case that hip hop has no room for artists like Iggy Azalea and Macklemore, two white artists who have dominated hip hop and used their privilege to undermine the successes of black artists like Kendrick Lamar and Nicki Minaj. Banks says that the aforementioned artists have appropriated the music genre and used it to their advantage while paying no homage to black artists that made the genre available to artists like them.
Honestly, I completely agree.
This was the first event that put Azealia Banks, the underground artist, in the spotlight. Twitter users and people who have no understanding of hip hop took to their computers and lambasted Banks saying she was just "mad because she had no record sales" and some even went on to make racebaiting comments.
It exacerbated to the point where Twitter banned Banks's account! A statement was released by Twitter saying Banks's language was seditious and incited violence against a community of people.
On the contrary though, Richard Spencer, in-famous neo-Nazi movement has a now "verified" status on Twitter. Why is it that black opinions seem more intimidating and demonstrative than white opinions?
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