Azealia Banks has a lot of ambiguity to her persona. Her high level of thinking speaks such high volumes to pop culture that it causes a widespread uproar in a community filled with many different people. It has come to the conclusion that many people in both the music industry and modern-day culture try to understand her but have failed miserably. Why are you saying these things, nobody will like you!? She’s such a flop! She’ll never get anywhere with that attitude! Ok, but according to Billboard, Broke With Expensive Taste peaked at No. 2 for Rap Albums, No. 3 for R&B/Hip-Hop Albums and has sold 11,000 copies within one week of release.

Alongside BWET, 1991 EP peaked No. 17 in June 2012 (sold 35,000 copies) and her critically acclaimed single, “212” produced by Lazy Jay collected a global viewing on YouTube of more than 77 million. It is no doubt that her fiery attitude, clever clapbacks and venomous word choice may come across as arrogant and crude but her wide range of vocals, fresh cut beats, and rhythms speaks for itself. The juvenalian satire that she has is just the icing on the cake as to what makes her, her; she has always been a messy woman who lives for drama!

March 31st, 2016, a French minister who advocates for women’s rights took the time to discuss with French media to compare Muslim women who wear the veil to American “negroes” who accepted slavery (which by the way who in their right mind would come to “agreement” with a term that derives from years on top of years of abuse, molestation and torture). Connecting the French minister’s commentary to what’s currently going on in the presidential race in America, Azealia Banks heavily weighs in her opinion towards Sarah Palin, a 52 year old from Sandpoint, ID who is the wife of Todd Palin and mother to her children Bristol, Trig, Track, Piper and Willow Palin (what hat did she pull those names from).

At an anti-Iran rally held back on September 9th, 2015 in Washington, D.C., Sarah Palin gave a speech where she added in her own commentary which took shots at the activists within the Black Lives Matter movement calling them “dogs” and apparently stating that,”Since he [President Obama] hasn’t called off the dogs, we’ll say it: Police officers and first-responders all across this great land, we got your back! We salute you! Thank you, police officers!” Below are just some of the many comments on her racially driven speech.

https://twitter.com/TravisSBN/status/641676355298570240?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw

https://twitter.com/stereowilliams/status/641679859178209282?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw

https://twitter.com/TravisSBN/status/641676355298570240?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw

In correlation with the speech Mrs. Palin gave back in September of 2015 to the personal opinionated, vulgar statement given to the media by the French minister it seems to me that in that time frame Azealia Banks was gathering her thoughts on what to say and has recently released them through mediums of Twitter and Tumblr. Even though some of her heated tweets got deleted I managed to get a hold of some.

https://twitter.com/AZEALIABANKS/status/717127128706387968

https://twitter.com/AZEALIABANKS/status/717128063641862144

Ouch…in response to this, Sarah Palin, according to multiple publications, has decided to sue rapper/lyricist, Azealia Banks over her obscene comments. Ms. Banks apologized. Kind of. Let’s see how this pans out.

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