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Rapper Azealia Banks under fire after calling Perez Hilton a "messy ******"

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So, this is the talk of Tinseltown. To sum it all up, Perez Hilton started an argument with Interscope rapper Azealia Banks on Twitter. Here are some of the tweets.











The rapper Azealia Banks’ social media meltdown last week — culminating in her calling the gay blogger Perez Hilton a “messy ******” — continues to suffer fallout. This morning brings rumors that Interscope Records has dropped the rapper.

Banks has not apologized for her remarks. Indeed, she’s amplified them, noting: “A ****** is not a homosexual male. A ****** is any male who acts like a female. There’s a BIG difference.” A GLAAD spokesman this morning indicated that she has also ignored attempts from the advocacy firm to make amends for the homophobic slur.


“In this case, it was not a slip of the tongue but a very deliberate statement that she has defended,” said Rich Ferraro, GLAAD’s vice-president of communications. “There’s certainly a trickle-down effect for young people when a celebrity they follow defends the use of words like this. It enables them to use words like that on the playground.”


There is a long history of homophobia in hip-hop: Even as gay-friendly a rapper as the candy-colored Nicki Minaj felt the need to release a track with Eminem in which he bashes her gay audience by dropping the other F-bomb. And practically no utterance between two men in hip-hop can go without a statement like “No ****” or “pause,” indicating that the musician isn’t, well, a ***. Banks, as well as R&B singer Frank Ocean (who’s affiliated with the at times virulently antigay crew Odd Future), seemed to be ending the old hegemony; Banks is an open bisexual, while Ocean admitted this past summer to having been in love with a man, though he does not define himself. Though many queer people use homophobic slurs to one another, this is more in keeping with hip-hop tradition than the subversive privilege of mutually oppressed people.

“The end goal has to not be about Azealia Banks but about the young people who follow her,” said Ferraro, noting that the organization was no longer attempting to be a “watchdog” condemning behavior but rather engaging with celebrities on the social Web. The group’s tweets at Banks (one example is here) invited her to engage in a dialogue with bullied gay teens. (Not all of GLAAD’s campaigns of tweets at celebrities have resonated as well — the group’s strange misunderstanding with reality-show judge Blake Shelton presumed his rewriting of a Shania Twain song was meant to be sung by a gay-bashing man, rather than Twain herself.) Banks didn’t write back, said Ferraro, nor did her manager respond to GLAAD’s request. Rather than continuing to attempt contact, the group has been working over the weekend to put together responses from young people, including Banks’ fans, about their experience of hearing slurs. “We’ve heard from Azealia Banks about what this word means, and we’ve heard from GLAAD about what this word means,” said Ferraro.


The response to the Banks imbroglio on GLAAD’s website presumes Banks’ ignorance of the term’s history and how it offends; it’s fairly similar to the treatment of former “Grey’s Anatomy” star Isaiah Washington, who called a castmate a “******” on-set and using the term again at the Golden Globes. He ended up shooting a PSA for GLAAD, but was fired from his hit show and left the public eye thereafter.
http://www.salon.com/2013/01/07/a_hip_hop_artists_career_unravels_for_talking_trash/
 
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This chick is rad and says the truth.

And what the fuck is GLAAD are they like the global media police now? You call someone the F WORD and then have to "make ammends?" How do you make ammends for calling someone a ***?!
 
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Lol, Perez Hilton is a ****** and it has nothing to do with the fact he is homosexual. GLAAD needs to realize that it isn't bashing gay people in 99.99 percent of the times it is used, it makes them look like total ******* when they get their panties in a bunch.
 
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Perez used to be the biggest bully on the block and now he can't take it? I can honestly say I don't give a shit whether his feelings are hurt or not.

As for Azealia Banks, I couldn't care less about her. I have no clue who she is...why would I? If she is of no relation to Carlton Banks then I don't wanna know who she is.
 
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Interscope may have let her go over this? For real? That's insanity.

Perez Hilton is a ******. He's a dick of the highest order. It takes a lot to make me dislike someone I've had only the slightest of interaction with. I've been told several times that the guy stole graphics work from me for his crap blog eons ago. Can't stand him or his rumour-mongering garbage. What a whiner he is.
 
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LMAO! That's hilarious. I can't stand Perez Hilton. Neither can most people.

Interscope may have let her go over this? For real? That's insanity.
The music industry has a lot of gay people in high positions. Same for the movie industry.

LMAO does your butthole whistle??? media trying to turn the ****** into the new N word (......)
It's never going to happen. They need to give it a rest.
 
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Ahahaha. That is so funny. I can't think of Perez Hilton without thinking about Patrice O'Neal making fun of him.

"You know the word ******? Imagine that word didn't exist and you saw Perez Hilton. You'd invent that fuckin' word right on the spot! 'Perez, you're a fuckin' ******!' "
 
#41 ·
Perez trashes the way people look and bullies people all the time. He even called Will I Am a ****** to his face, right? That is all I know about this hypocritical little textbook ******. He runs around calling people ******* when he's the biggest ****** in the world.

What man could refer to himself as "Perez Hilton" and not just be the textbook definition of ******?
 
#7 ·
And who is she to decide what the definition of a "******" is? I hope she continues to be "under fire" for her ignorant, dumb remarks. It just sends us as a society backwards whenever anyone makes an idiotic comment like that. Really f***ing helpful in making young people (or anyone for that matter) comfortable with their sexuality/life when people like Azealia go around throwing out whatever profane thing comes to mind. Screw her.
 
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She has a right to say whatever the fuck she wants and the people who try to manipulate that right and twist her arm into retracting what she said, THOSE are the people who need to check themselves. What kind of fucking country is this when you can't call someone a ****** over the internet?
 
#17 ·
Wow. A rapper used the word ***, shocking fpalm
One more example why the current society is full of douchebags. I miss the time where rappers could say "fuck tha police" and nobody cried
 
#25 ·
If I am not mistaking, Perez called will.i.am a ****** a few years back.

So are you guys using the word ****** as she thinks it means, or the way everybody else thinks it is(A hateful word)?

Surely she means CAMP...?! Still, I have no like for that Perez Hilton, what is it that he actually does. Any talent whatsoever? Nor have I heard much of her work. Only that one song which she released.
It was obvious that Banks' intent was not to blanket the LGBT community. Usage of the word doesn't necessarily imply homosexuality. It just depends in context.
 
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So are you guys using the word ****** as she thinks it means, or the way everybody else thinks it is(A hateful word)?

Surely she means CAMP...?! Still, I have no like for that Perez Hilton, what is it that he actually does. Any talent whatsoever? Nor have I heard much of her work. Only that one song which she released.
 
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