Azealia Banks Isn’t Using This Homophobic Slur Ever Again
Last year, rapper Azealia Banks would defend her repeated, if not tired, use of the word “faggot.” She says that she and her mother would use it in a “feminist” way, which, of course, required further explanation. “It was always just a man who hates women. You can be gay or straight,” she said to QutQ‘s Xorje Olivares on Sirius XM. Since then, however, Azealia seems to have (finally) changed her mind.
“Ok, i’m never saying the word F****T ever again,” she says. “The amount of people that get hurt when i use the word vs. the amount of people i’ve said it to are just not worth it. Honestly… This isn’t a cop out, its just me realizing that words hurt. and while i may be immune to every word and be thicker skinned than most, it doesn’t mean that i get to go around treating people with the same toughness that made my skin so thick.”
While Azealia didn’t explain what brought this on, she does hint that her devoted fans may be a factor. “I love to please and inspire others with my music and art the most, More than i love anything in the world,” she says. “To lose out on a chance to make people feel good and smile and be happy would be the dumbest thing i could do in this lifetime. To end this note i want to SINCERELY apologize to my fans for having let so many of you down over the years.”
See her apology in full below.
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