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Azealia Banks

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Reading Festival, Berkshire, Britain - 25 Aug 2012
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Azealia Banks in concert at the Electric Brixton in London, UK - 27 Jan 2019
Azealia Banks performs at the 2015 Coachella Music and Arts Festival in Indio, Calif. Los Angeles prosecutors say they will not charge Russell Crowe with battery over a scuffle with rapper Azealia Banks in a Beverly Hills hotel room earlier this year. A charge evaluation worksheet released Wednesday, Dec. 7, by the Los Angeles County District Attorney office states Crowe struggled with Banks and threw her out of his hotel room in October after she picked up a glass and threatened people with it. They rejected filing a battery charge against the actor due to Banks' actions and her lack of visible injuries
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Azealia Banks in concert, Brixton Academy, London, Britain - 19 Sep 2014 View Gallery View Gallery 6 Photos.

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Height:
5' 7"
Hometown:
Harlem

Bio:
Azealia BanksĀ (born Azealia Amanda Banks on May 31, 1991 in Manhattan, New York City, New York) is an American rapper, singer and songwriter. Azealia grew up in Harlem, raised by her mother after her father died from pancreatic cancer. Azealia became interested in performing at a young age. By the time she was 10-years-old, she began performing in off-Broadway musicals. As a teen, she attended the LaGuardia High School of Performing Arts. While performing in a musical, City of Angels, an agent discovered her and sent her for auditions at TBS, Niceklodeon and Law & Order. With no callbacks, Azealia shifted her focus on music. Under the name, Miss Bank$, she released her debut in 2008. She signed a development deal with XL Recording and worked with Richard Russell, but she left, citing conflicting ideas. Azealia released her first EP, 1991, in 2012. It reached 133 on the Billboard 200. She collaborated with Lady Gaga and Kanye West, but those songs haven’t been released yet. In 2012, she said her debut album would be titled Broke with Expensive Taste, and it was finally released in 2014, after fighting with Universal Music Group. In 2015, her tour with K. Michelle was cancelled and she revealed that dispute with her former management company will prevent her from releasing new music until March 2016.

Best Known For:
Azealia Banks is best known as a rapper and an outspoken voice on social media.

Personal Life:
Azealia identifies as bisexual. She is active in social and political causes, often expressing them on social media. She has argued with celebs like Kendrick Lamar, Nicki Minaj, Taylor SwiftĀ and most famously, Iggy Azalea. Azealia has been accused of homophobia for her use of certain slurs, a claim she denies. In 2015, she was involved in an incident on a Delta Airlines where she got into a fight with another passenger. She used a homophobic slur at a Delta employee during the exchange.

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What in the world? Azealia Banks showed off her graphic blood and feather covered closet on Dec. 30, where she allegedly has been sacrificing chickens. The outspoken rapper is known for her wild antics, but this one may take the cake. Watch the crazy clip if you dare.

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Yikes! Azealia Banks is on the attack once again, and this time she’s hurling racial slurs and homophobic remarks at Zayn Malik after she claimed he copied her music video. See the full stream of appalling insults, right here.
This is absolutely disgusting. Azealia Banks, 24, went after Zayn Malik, 24, for allegedly copying her music video on May 10, and once again she took it way too far and resorted to horribly offensive homophobic names and insults directed (incorrectly) at Zayn’s ethnicity. See all of the drama, right here.

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Azealia Banks hasn’t gotten into a Twitter feud for awhile, so she was overdue for a good one! This time, her target just could be Rihanna, if a serious of cryptic, insulting tweets are about the singer, as many believe. Click through to see for yourself!
Not that Wednesday, December 23 was any kind of holiday, but Azealia Banks gave us all a gift anyway by getting into one of her signature Twitter feuds — this time potentially with Rihanna. The two artists are reportedly collaboratingĀ on RiRi’s new album, and from the sound of Azealia’s cryptic tweets, a collaboration isn’t happening anymore. Click through to read the tweets!

December 23, 2015
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