Just one day after Azealia Banks had her Twitter account suspended—thus providing fodder for the #AzealiaBanksSuspendedParty hashtag—the Harlem-born rapper promised payback via her Instagram account. In a post Thursday, Banks said she would follow up with a penned essay regarding her take on "black people's mental health" and the conditioning of white privilege in the music industry.
In a series of Instagram posts, Banks described her experiences with black people—namely black men—who have berated her from the time that she first entered the music scene.
She stated:
Banks also defended her "racist" tweets against ZAYN, who she said she feels is pandering to "whiteness" in hopes of benefiting from white privilege in the music industry. Those remarks followed comments from the One Direction singer claiming he was "too good" to respond to her scathing tweets directed (no pun intended) at him. She also mentioned that "in the racial-social construct of the pop world he is STILL beneath Justin [sic] Beiber."
You can read parts 1 and 2 of her Instagram posts of the essay here and here.
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