Biography

May 31, 1991 · Harlem, New York City, New York, USA

Azealia Amanda Banks

1.60 m

In December 2016 she suffered a miscarriage.

[from Playboy interview, March 2015] Do you want to leave the U.S.? Yes! I hate everything about this country. Like, I hate fat white Americans. 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.

[terrorism in Nigeria] I couldn't be of Nigerian descent and ignore the fact that China is funding Boko Haram and other groups to terrorize Nigeria and its citizens while I sit back in my gluttony, gorging on poisonous American food supply while my people die on sacred land.

[people getting angry at things she says] It's like people get way too dramatic about things. Who cares? People do shit. People have done shit to me, I've done shit to people. It just fucking happens - you live and you learn and you move the fuck on. Honestly, I don't know what people's obsession is with me being like this. People are always like, 'Are you a miserable person?' Oh my fucking god. Like I'm at home hanging out with my dogs, baking cookies, writing songs, watching TV, and doing my goddamn thing. People love the drama and then they like to pretend they don't. And then they're always like, 'Oh, how could you say that?' And then they're talking about it for fucking two weeks and it's like 'shit, let it go.'"

[being labeled a villain] Well, if I weren't the person that I am, I don't think I would have a semblance of the cultural relevance that I do, you know? With black women in music, it's really easy to be forgotten about when you're not really subscribing to the whole... I guess, hyper-feminine idea of what a female artist should be. When you're not being a fantasy of what society thinks the perfect woman is as a female artist, it's really easy to get cast aside, and even when you are doing that, it's still really easy to get cast aside. My voice and my opinion is in tandem with my music, [and it's] something that makes me really special.

[calling out Angela Nwandu] The shaderoom is run by a Nigerian woman who is more obsessed with denigrating black Americans than doing anything with her platform to bring light to the issues like SARS and Boko Haram that plague her home country. Sure blacks have issues here, but the situation in Nigeria is DIRE. She doesn't have the courage to fight for her own. She uses black American media to distract herself from how politically incapable she truly is.