Azealia Banks wants to be just like Jay Z.
"Jay Z. That's the only person I have my eye set on," the 23-year-old rapper said in Playboy's April issue. "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."
No stranger to taking aim at other hip-hop figures, the "Broke With Expensive Taste" emcee took the opportunity to size up fellow controversy-prone rapper Kanye West.
"In American society, the game is to be a nonthreatening black person," she continued. "That's why you have Pharrell or Kendrick Lamar saying, 'How can we expect people to respect us if we don't respect ourselves?' He's playing that nonthreatening black man s—t, and that gets all the white soccer moms going, 'We love him.' Even Kanye West plays a little bit of that game — 'Please accept me, white world.' Jay Z hasn't played any of those games, and that's what I like."
The comment comes just months after Banks took on Iggy Azalea — dubbing her "Igloo Australia" in the process — in a weeks-long feud over the Australian's tendency to borrow from black culture without engaging with it.
West, 37, wasn't the only person the rapper went after, though — she also shared her distaste for Americans in general.
"I hate everything about this country," she said. "Like, I hate fat white Americans. 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."
Don't expect Banks to pull back from her outspoken ways, either.
"Yeah, I am loud and boisterous. And I am black, and I am a pain in your ass. But I'm not really talking to you, and that's what makes those people mad. You're not invited to this conversation. This is not about you," she said.
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