Azealia Banks is Talking Reckless in The New Issue of Vibe

As we all know when it comes to female rappers, there is no female buzzing more than the Head Barbie in Charge, Nicki Minaj. But Nicki is not the only female rapper that should be on your radar. There's my girls Lola Monroe (1st Lady of Wiz Khalifa's Taylor Gang) and Brianna Perry. But there's also another young lady who you should look out for and that's Azealia Banks!

Azealia Banks is probably the Queen of Twitter Beefs as she has started some major drama with a few established artists such as T.I., Nicki Minaj, Lil Kim and more recently, Jim Jones; and her album hasn't even dropped yet!!! In the upcoming issue of Vibe magazine, Azealia is pictured alongside producer Diplo (who by the way, can get it!) and in this issue, Azealia talks about giving Lil Kim "some relevance" (y'all know I loves me some Kim - don't come for Queen Bee), her beef with TI and being known for her controversy more than her music in the States.

Peep what babygirl had to say below:

On if her buzz in the States is moreso built off of controversy than her actual music
Of course, because Americans are distracted by sh-t like that. It’s like, “Listen, T.I., if I was a f-cking boy you wouldn’t say anything to me.” But when I’m a girl and I say something back, the media wants to turn it into all these different things. Rappers beef all the time. I said what I said about [Iggy Azalea] and kept it moving. Then a month later you said what you said. And it keeps coming up. Leave it alone. I didn’t say she couldn’t rap. I said something very real. Out of everything, she had to [call herself] “a runaway slave master”? C’mon, that’s not swag. That’s not fly sh-t.
And that’s all it was. For T.I. to drag me through the dirt… It’s silly. In Europe they leave it alone and keep playing my songs on the radio and I keep getting booked for fashion shows because they’re about the art. All I’m doing is making myself look bad by getting engaged with y’all because no one in Europe gives a f-ck about y’all. All I’m doing is giving y’all n-ggas exposure. So if you notice I’ve backed up off Twitter the past days [laughs].

On her beef with Lil Kim
That’s what we did, and that sh-t is over. Yo, listen, [Lil’ Kim], this black cloud you got over you—don’t try to push that over me. You can keep that, because as soon as I released “Jumanji” is as soon everybody forgot about you. I have my hand on the dial; I can control how hot and cold you are right now. So I’m not even going to give it to you. I tried to make a legitimate track with you, tried to collaborate. I was bigging her up and she keeps throwing it back in my face. I tried.

On If she regrets her Twitter beefs
Of course, because it’s e-thugging… Who wants to look like that? But how else am I gonna reach y’all? I don’t have a T.I. to get on a radio show and defend me; I’m the one behind me. Y’all expect me to agree like, “Oh yea, I’m wack. I only have one song.” That’s one song y’all n-ggas don’t f-cking have. You might win some, but you just lost one.

What do you think of this Harlemite? Personally I don't think she's all that hot and she's definitely not fucking with my girl Lola! Bet that!