Azealia Banks Vs Iggy Azalea: White people shouldn't 'steal' hip-hop

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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/women/wom...l-hip-hop.html

Azealia Banks vs Iggy Azalea: 'Privileged white people shouldn’t steal hip-hop'

Two of hip-hop's biggest female stars have come to public blows over race. Reni Eddo-Lodge explains why this hip-hop battle is so much bigger than these two women

Azealia Banks and Iggy Azalea are involved in a race war

Three years ago, rapper Azealia Banks had a viral hit with 212, and this year she finally came out with her debut album. But she’s also known for her long-standing feud with the Australian rapper Iggy Azalea, started long ago for reasons I don’t have the word count to go into. Last week, Banks gave an interview to New York based radio station Hot 97. When questioned about her feud with Iggy, she burst into tears at the America’s cultural appropriation of blackness, calling it a "cultural smudging".

She seemed particularly upset that Iggy Azalea was nominated for Best Rap Album at the Grammys. “The Grammys are supposed to be awards for artistic excellence… Iggy Azalea’s not excellent,” Banks said. “When they give these Grammys out, all it says to white 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 s***. You don’t own s***, not even the s*** you created yourself.’ And it makes me upset.”

As a fellow black woman, I’m not sure Azealia Banks realises the depth of the conversation she’s just started about hip-hop and white privilege. She said it best herself: "At the very f***ing least, y'all owe me the right to my identity. That's all we're holding on to in hip-hop and rap."

Upon hearing of the interview, Iggy Azalea responded on Twitter. “You created your own unfortunate situation by being a bigot and don't have the mental capacity to realize yet,” she wrote. “Probably never will. 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. Enjoy continuing to bang your head against that metaphoric brick wall & Savor this attention. I'm the only way you get ANY.”

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I actually liked Azealia Banks and like her music but all she seems to do now is go on and on about race, first the American cops shooting CRIMINAL THUGS and now this stupid feud. The person who wrote the article, and the rest of it backs Banks, is another black racist basically saying that white people are stealing a genre of music... so by that logic, a black opera conductor or black classics singer is 'stealing' something that belongs to white people? Or black people using electric are stealing white culture? Absurd, its a music genre you stupid *****.

As I always say with the waycism debate, the word racism has now been so destroyed because it's now used to mean anything that it devalues genuine racism: of which discussing immigration or singing a hip-hop song are not.

Thoughts?

[buttons]

lol she wants to talk about racism when she's a rape apologist (re bill cosby) and a homophobe lol
i think she jealous iggy gets more publicity and sales (im guessing) than her.. her timeline is full of rtweets from people bigging her up

[FlyingJesus]

Azealia Banks is an idiot pure and simple, she refuses to admit that any black person could ever be anything but perfect and is basically the race-based version of western feminists. I don't like Iggy either but this is ridic

[karter]

it was entertaining when azealia banks called iggy ..igloo australia and iffy azuzu (crriesss) but then she defended bill cosby....yikes. messy.

[Jssy]

not a fan of azealia, the whole argument is ridiculous

[Shar]

What is she even on about? What a fool. Now I dislike her more than I used to.

[MKR&*42]

Oh yeah i read about this other day it's stupid as hell. Just cause you didn't win an award doesn't mean the entire world is racist against you boo hoo

[dbgtz]

How the hell did an awards show get turned and twisted into racism Jesus Christ. People will cry just about anything for a bit of attention. I don't understand how these people believe that a genre of music or whatever can belong to a certain group of people. When does it end? Why can't I say she should stop appropriating "white people's" language? It's all ridiculous and I can't stand people like her.

[The Don]

Banks is a huge idiot and is completely wrong. With that said Iggy is no better and is just as much a scumbag. The less attention paid to either of these idiots the better.

[peteyt]

This is stupid. I bet if we said a genre was started by a white person and we didn't want black people in it stealing it, we'd be classed as racist, but when she say's the exact same she somehow sees herself as a role model for the blacks.

At the end of the day everything should be shared. You can't have it both ways - equality doesn't work unless its straight down the middle 50/50 and that's why I dislike a lot of feminists because they talk about equality but then seem to want extra rules applying for one side but not the other