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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Tom Ambrose

Azealia Banks likens Bull Ring fish stalls in Birmingham to ‘Wuhan wet market’

Azealia Banks in a union jack corset top singing into a microphone
The rapper, from Harlem in New York, is known for her public feuds with the likes of Elon Musk and the British rock band The Stone Roses. Photograph: Sonja Horsman

The US rapper Azealia Banks has accused Birmingham’s fish market of making her ill, comparing it to a “Wuhan wet market”.

In an unlikely intervention, the American star posted on X that city officials needed to “do something” about the stalls before comparing the market to the site in China identified as the place where the Covid pandemic most likely began.

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