Azealia Banks Went on a Racist Twitter Rant at Zayn Malik

Publish date
Thursday, 12 May 2016, 9:25AM

Azealia Banks kind of lost her sh*t and has been dropped from the lineup for Rinse FM's Born & Bred Festival after she directed a series of racist tweets at Zayn Malik.

It began when Banks claimed Zayn was "mood boarding the fuck" out of her look in a post on Instagram. She cleared up that she was okay with it as she added  "I'm not mad about this though. Zayn is a cutie pie."

Damn Zayn be mood boarding the fuck of out me 😳.. I'm not mad about this though. Zayn is a cutie pie

A photo posted by Azealia Banks (@azealiabanks) on May 10, 2016 at 9:15am PDT

 Zayn later posted a pair of dismissive tweets:

Banks took these as a response to her post and replied with several racist tweets, including an accusation of tokenism against his former band, One Direction.

In a series of (now deleted tweets) she said things such as: 

"@zaynmalik dude, I make better music than you. Simmer down with that fake white boy rebellion and that wannabe beiber swag"

"@zaynmalik lol u a bitch nigga for even responding like that. Keep sucking this yung rapunxel dick u hairy curry scented bitch"

"@zaynmalik imma start calling you punjab you dirty bitch."

"@zaynmalik lol u were the only paki in the group and you knew you were there for a reason."

"@zaynmalik you were the the token brown boy. All those white boys in 1D disrespected you and made you their PET"

"@zaynmalik still doesn't change the fact that your mother is a dirty refugee who won't be granted asylum."

Zayn then calmly replied:

Banks continued her tirade against him.  

"Do you understand that you are a sand nigger who emulates white boys' renditions of black male hood?"

The festival Banks was meant to be headlining then sent this out: 

Banks then apologised (sort of) with a few tweets:

"Big apologies to anyone who was offended by any of the things I said. Not sorry I said it. But sorry for the way I made people feel"

"Everyone except the targets of my tirades."

"Not using my blackness or my NYC persona to excuse anything. I am Azealia Banks and I am who I am."

 WTF Azealia!? This whole thing is crazy and we can't believe she's acting so shockingly!!

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