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Azealia Banks Sheds Light On Abusive Childhood

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Azealia Banks “Dazed & Confused” cover was banned in seven countries which is a shame because thousands will lose the chance to learn more about the divisive yet compelling 21-year old rapper. In the candid interview Azealia opened up about her childhood from her father dying of pancreatic cancer to her mom abusing she and her brother and exploring her sexual desires at an early age.

We grew up in the hood, but we had some money. But I moved out when I was 14 to go live with my older sister, because my mom just had, well… issues.

After my dad died, my mom became really abusive – physically and verbally. Like she would hit me and my sisters with baseball bats, bang our heads up against walls, and she would always tell me I was ugly. I remember once she threw out all the food in the fridge, just so we wouldn’t have anything to eat. It was like growing up a feral child, being raised by this person who was always yelling and screaming, hitting you and dragging you around and sh-t.

Granted, she never had any drug or drinking problems – her house was clean, her hair was always done, and we had stuff – but she still f***ed me up real bad.’

The Van Vogue singer openly discussed her desire to experiment with sex as a young girl,

Growing up I was so curious about boys. I just loved them. I’d always get my recesses taken away for letting boys touch my butt in the lunch line I got in trouble for fooling around in school a lot. I just wanted to be touched, ya know? I just wanted to have sex. And my mom was always working so there was never anyone around to tell me no.

Despite the ban the magazine editor only had great things to say about Azealia,

I really enjoyed interviewing her. She’s an extremely smart and driven person. The intensity of her ambition is almost scary. You get the sense that there are no laws or limits to what she will do to get where she wants to be. She’s really funny, blunt and flips her hair a lot – like the classic ‘b-tch from a teen movie’ hair flip. It’s a good move. My interview with her inspired me to flip my hair more.

Check out Banks’ latest video “Van Vogue”


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