Azealia Banks‘ venom has spared few and ironically has poisoned her once promising prospects.

Despite this, the talented femcee continues to drag any and everyone – including fellow rapstress Cardi B.

Over the last year, Banks has branded the Bronx star “an illiterate untalented rat“ and a “poor man’s Nicki Minaj” amongst other jabs.

And while Cardi has generally remained mum, she appears to have made her feelings on bleaching endorser Banks clear.

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Azealia Banks has vowed to remove her music from the streaming platform Spotify after one of its tastemakers placed her on a ‘One Hit Wonders‘ playlist.

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Dominique Young Unique is now a persona non grata.

Well, that is as least to Nicki Minaj‘s fans.

What the rapper did to thwart her chances of ever been taken seriously by Pop music lovers everywhere?

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Erykah Badu and Azealia Banks have made amends.

A positive development on the ladies’ once volatile relationship after the leap….

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The rising comedienne Jess Hilarious has found an enemy in Nicki Minaj‘s fan base this year after she took to social media to tear into the rapper’s career.

Part of a growing list of social media influencers keen to knock the rapper’s approval ratings, Jess shocked Minaj’s fans with a series of inflammatory videos designed to convince viewers that the performer’s time at the top is done.

Will you agree with Jess’ estimation?

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Remy Ma proved this year that she is not to be messed with. However, that wasn’t enough of a deterrent for outspoken femcee Azealia Banks.

Unbeknownst to the masses, the pair had actually enjoyed a friendly camaraderie. At least over text.

Yet, that was dissolved tonight. Find out why below…

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The House rapper Azealia Banks has something to say about her fellow New Yorker Cardi B…and it isn’t pleasant.

After criticising the entertainer’s rise, which she believes is powered by payola, on Twitter, Banks hit out at her by calling her the poor man’s Nicki Minaj.

Amused, Cardi uploaded a video of Azealia partying to her #1 single ‘Bodak Yellow‘ prompting Banks to respond by lifting the lid on what she says is Cardi’s ties to professional prostitution.

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Though generally positive, rapstress Cardi B‘s rise to the top of the Billboard Hot 100 has not come without some detractors.  Ask fellow femcee Azealia Banks who, just days after slamming B for offensive remarks deemed “racist” by some spectators, referred to the ‘Bodak Yellow’ performer as a ‘poor man’s Nicki Minaj‘ in a lengthy Twitter rant (click here to read more on that).

While showered with love for her historic hoist to the Hot 100’s highest height, the comments by Banks did not go unnoticed.  See the clever way Cardi clapped back inside:

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Azealia Banks‘  new interview with ‘XXL’ has set many a pulse racing today thanks to her bold and brave criticism of the music industry.

On being shut out of the game?

I’m definitely shut out from where I was, 100 percent. People are very scared to be associated with me because of, you know, the controversy, I guess the skin bleaching or the “sand nigger” or the “faggot” thing. I’m not sad about it, I’m not disappointed at the situation. I’m disappointed with myself for sure. I’m a little disappointed in them, but not really.

I guess the source of my disappointment comes from just watching lots of other men in hip-hop, just like male rappers, have their career setbacks and go through things. Or even when a Black male rapper misspeaks something… just seeing Black men go through the motions, seeing the Black mass just kind of seemingly accepting it as just an attribute of their artistry. So they’ll be like, “Kanye West is saying all that because he’s crazy” or “Okay, yeah, R. Kelly raped a girl but damn, he makes some good music.” I don’t feel like I ever got that kind of empathy. I never got those kinds of privileges, I never got those kinds of allowances, especially coming in the rap game without any real rap friends. I basically came in the building by myself. There was nobody to validate me, there was nobody to vouch for me or whatever, and I got mishandled a lot.

It made me really bitter for a very long time, very, very, very bitter, so bitter to the point that I would just kind of say things that I didn’t mean, like, “I hate Black men” and shit like that. I would just say things like that because I would just feel so misunderstood. It was all purposeful, like when T.I. was threatening me with physical violence or when Jim Jones was threatening me with physical violence. Come on, hip-hop should have said something about it, and nobody said anything about it.

Even now, you guys have this guy XXXTentacion on the [XXL] Freshman cover, but he’s tweeted about how he thinks Black women are roaches and that we should die and how dark people are roaches and we should die and shit like that. It’s discouraging, and I’m not afraid to cry about it or afraid to admit that it hurts me now, rather than just going about things the wrong way and trying to fight fire with fire.

On her feelings towards Remy Ma, Cardi B and Nicki Minaj?

I really, really like Cardi B. I followed Cardi B on Instagram before she started rapping and I was like, Oh my God, this girl just reminds me of all the girls I went to middle school with, all the girls I grew up on the block with, all the Dominican babysitters. I grew up with girls just like Cardi B. So I always thought she was funny, and when she started rapping, I was like… what is she doing? Then I heard “Foreva”and I was like, Okay, this is really fucking good, she’s not playing. Then I heard a couple other songs and I was like, Oh shit, Cardi’s not playing! And now I’m a fan of Cardi B’s music and her personality.

I like Remy Ma too, I like when her whole brand isn’t anti-Nicki. I think she gets a little carried away with that. I don’t know, maybe I like Cardi and Remy just because they sound like home. Like I know that girl, that uptown, Manhattan, Bronx girl. I think that’s why I like them the most.

On how systemic racism affects the industry?

The media itself ’cause clearly, everything is owned by White people—I’m tired of talking about White people. These media conglomerates have this socioeconomic leverage, and they can orchestrate any industry, and any story or any happening the way they want to. The music industry isn’t the only one that’s subjected to it. Hollywood is subjected to it, tech world, everybody. It’s just the media in general. I feel like it’s everyone’s biggest problem.

Even for people who are succeeding at playing the media game. They’re always crying about how they feel stifled and all that other shit. I think in the coming years, [the media] is gonna prove to be very detrimental to society’s social and psychological health.

I think the media does a lot to chastise people into… or just micro-manage people’s aggressions and chastise people into forming opinions. Especially in America, where the media is such a big part of our culture. Because we really drag ourselves down into Prozac nation on fucking steroids. But nobody cares, I’m just the Black bitch from fucking Harlem [laughs].

I’m just a Black bitch from Harlem who only puts out one song a year. I’m joking.

Source.

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Azealia Banks and Iggy Azalea have decided to put their ugly past behind them and move towards the future as positive peers.

Banks, who was praised for her estimation of Azalea’s career in this unforgettable interview, recently took to Twitter to reveal that her feelings toward Iggy had changed and that she hoped to mark this by creating original music with her.

It wasn’t long before Iggy caught wind of the invitation.

Six years have passed since the birth of their beef, arguably fuelled by their respective ties to Interscope Records and talk of racism.

Fortunately, with the past behind them, the ladies now end what truly was a very ugly episode.

Here’s hoping this goes some way to inspire Remy Ma and Nicki Minaj, eh?

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“Africans in the Middle East are the last of the diaspora. They really really REALLY need our help and attention.”

After dashing disses at Nicki Minaj and Lena Dunham earlier on this week, Azealia Banks has decided to turn her gaze to more pressing issues.

One of these is the plight of Africans facing cruelty, racism and discrimination in Asia and the Middle East.

Often ignored by the press, racially-motivated attacks against black people from other minority groups in foreign countries has led to the birth of “Travelling while Black’ videos designed to offer the community help and advice before they touch down.

What Azealia Banks has to say about this and its ties to Syria‘s struggles?

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In 2009, Nicki Minaj released a demo she had penned for a then-‘Rated R’ Rihanna named ‘Saxon.’

Alas, the number didn’t make the cut and was re-written to build ‘Talk That Talk‘s ‘Red Lipstick.’

This year, Azealia Banks follows in Minaj’s footsteps by unveiling a song she wrote and submitted to the ‘Pose’ purveyor after she was removed from her latest set ‘ANTI.’

Its name? ‘La Dominara‘, which means dominant woman in Spanish.

My house on 40 acres. I wake up, count cake up.  That’s million-dollar pay stubs. Bunch of lawyers and bankers e-mail me my statements. Rubber band, silver Lam’, Hundred grand in my Jacob, I see your man, he a fan, you a hater. You know Rih gettin’ cash.

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