Maybe Azealia Banks has realised that loyal gay fans will support your pop career way beyond its use-by date, or maybe she’s genuinely sorry, but either way, the rapper has apologised for her frequent homophobic outbursts, and promised to take her behaviour down a notch.
Banks, whose greatest hits include spitting at a flight attendant and calling him a faggot, and telling a gay fan “keep trawling for dick on Grindr, you’ll be murdered and stuffed under a truck somewhere soon”, made the apology this weekend in a Facebook post.
(She wasn’t able to do it on her preferred platform of Twitter, as she’s still banned from there thanks to the wildly racist rant she unleashed on Zayn Malik a few weeks ago).
In her post, Banks promised never to say the word ‘faggot’ again, declaring:
“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. Because, that IS how people get thick skin… by being subjected to name calling/belittlement/abuse and its not fair. Not fair to my fans, not fair to my peers but most importantly, Not fair to myself.”
Banks apologised sincerely to the fans she’s alienated over the years, and thanked those who’ve stuck with her. You can read her lengthy and seemingly sincere post here.
A few years back, Banks promised “no more fights” in the press, then immediately started one, threatening to serve rival Iggy Azalea a “piss martini”. Here’s hoping this new-found attitude lasts slightly longer.
Source: People.
Photo: Cassandra Hannagan / Getty.
