Azealia Banks is ready for the apocalypse. Even if the rest of America is not. It is crazy, she says, how the United States allow “an economy to exist within an economy that it has no control over”. She’s talking about tech — and the new technocratic class she says is taking over. The rate at which that class is accruing wealth “versus what that wealth will actually be worth in the event of a nuclear fallout, or a meteor hitting earth” has got her paranoid. “You absolutely need guns,” she says.
Banks, 32, is the world’s most controversial female rapper. Her music has won her plaudits, and her feuds notoriety. From Cardi B to Lana Del Rey (whose house she threatened to burn down using witchcraft), Banks has pulled no punches. Her latest target is the pop star Troye Sivan. He said last week that 212 — a thumping electropop romp about cunnilingus which Banks released in 2011 — was his go-to pre-game song. The rapper replied by calling him an “expired twink” and said this was “white kids’ way of apologising for bandwagoning”. He clearly had “no clue” what was happening to her behind the scenes.
