Azealia Banks on Playboy: 'Yung Rapunxel' Rapper Hates 'Fat White Americans,' Slams Pharrell and Kendrick Lamar for 'Nonthreatening' Image
Landing the cover of an iconic American magazine like Playboy is the dream of many models, actresses and entertainers. Harlem-born rapper Azealia Banks, who is featured as Playboy's April 2015 cover story, doesn't come across as a woman ecstatic to have made Playboy ranks. In fact, in her interview with the magazine, she has harsh criticism for Middle America, attacking "fat white Americans" and black musicians who fail to meet her grade, reports TIME.
"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," the 23-year-old rapper told Playboy.
Banks went on to say that teenage girls who work at Kmart and have "a racist grandma" are the real America.
According to Huffington Post, Banks also targets black musicians like Pharrell and Kanye West for offering what she describes as a "nonthreatening" image to appease middle-American consumer base.
"In American society, the game is to be a nonthreatening black person. That's why you have Pharrell or Kendrick Lamar saying, 'How can we expect people to respect us if we don't respect ourselves?' He's playing that nonthreatening black man sh*t, and that gets all the white soccer moms going, 'We love him.' Even Kanye West plays a little bit of that game-'Please accept me, white world.' Jay Z hasn't played any of those games, and that's what I like," Banks said.
It is interesting that Banks makes such a negative comment about West, whom she received a co-sign from early on in her career. She praised and compared herself to the "Yeezus" rapper during a 2013 interview with ELLE.
The Playboy cover story featuring the bold starlet hits shelves March 20.
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