Azealia Banks Calls Out White Female Rappers For "Appropriating Black Culture"

Azealia Banks first stormed onto the hip-hop scene in 2012 with her hit ‘212,’ and two years later the 23 year-old rapper has finally released her debut album ‘Broke with Expensive Taste.’ But after this lengthy delay, can she compete in a genre of music that is growing with female stars?

But this isn’t just happening in hip-hop, according to Banks, the problem has spread further. “It’ll be like, ‘For a couple of years, we’re gonna f–k with blue-eyed soul, and here’s Duffy, here’s Adele—who’s great—but now we’ve got a thousand white girls singing blue-eyed soul,” she said. “It’s so regurgitated and corny. You have it in everything. You have it in indie rock. You’ll have Interpol, and then The National, and it’s just like, ‘Really, dude? Really?’”

‘Broke with Expensive Taste’ was released unannounced on November 6th to online music stores.