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Azealia Banks wants to leave US

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Rapper Azealia Banks says she wants to leave the US because she hates "everything" about the country.

The 23-year-old slammed US in an interview with Playboy Magazine in its April issue, reports aceshowbiz.com.

"Yes! I hate everything about this country. Like, I hate fat white Americans," she said, and added: "All the people who are crunched into the middle of America, the real fat and meat of America, are these racist conservative white people who live on their farms. Those little teenage girls who work at Kmart and have a racist grandma-that's really America."

Asked if there's any person whose career she would like to emulate, Banks said: "Jay-Z. That's the only person I have my eye set on. The race thing always comes up, but I want to get there being very black and proud and boisterous about it. You get what I mean? A lot of times when you're a black woman and you're proud, that's why people don't like you."

 

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First Published: Mar 18 2015 | 8:00 AM IST

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