Harlem's outspoken rapper, Azealia Banks is doing what she does best, speaking her mind on the state of R&B and Hip-Hop music, essentially saying this new wave of white soul singers and rappers is nothing more than corny.
Banks spoke to Pitchfork recently about the influx of white R&B stars, saying that with a few exceptions, she's not feeling the movement.
"It'll be like, 'For a couple of years, we're gonna f-ck with blue-eyed soul, and here's Duffy, here's Adele'—who's great—but now we've got a thousand white girls singing blue-eyed soul. It's so regurgitated and corny. You have it in everything. You have it in indie rock. You'll have Interpol, and then the National, and it's just like, 'Really, dude? Really?'"
She also spoke of the industry backing the "white girl rapper" movement that started in the mid 2000s and continues today.
"Or it'll be like, 'We're gonna pop off the white-girl rapper,' so we'll have Gwen Stefani and Fergie, and then it'll get worse and worse and worse. And you're just like, 'What the f–k is this?' The whole trend of white girls appropriating black culture was so corny—it was more corny than it was offensive. Trust me, I'm not offended: All the things I'm trying to run away from in my black American experience are all the things that they're celebrating. So if they f–kin' want them, have them; if they want to be considered oversexualized and ignorant every time they open their f–king mouth, then f–king take it."
She says that while she's noting the social ramifications of appropriating black culture, she also says the material just isn't that good.
"More than that, the art is not good. These songs are not good. It's like, 'Oh my God, you're doing this black woman impression, is that what the f–k you think of me, b—h? I need to meet the black woman that you're imitating because I've never met any black woman who acts that bizarre.' It's crazy that this becomes mainstream culture. All of America is celebrating s–t like that. It's so weird."
Check out pics of Banks above. Do you agree with the "212" rapper that some of these white singers and rappers aren't good for the culture? Sound off below.
Source: Pitchfork
