Azealia Banks Calls Australia ‘Broke & Racist’ As Controversial Tour Wraps

Well, Azealia Banks has gone on another tirade against her fans in Australia. She has additionally blasted promoters Bizarro and Point Productions.

Taking to her Cheapyxousa Instagram account, the 212 rapper wrote, “My gut instinct told me not to come down here and stay my ass home. Next time I will listen to myself. For I am more often than not…. always right”.

She added in another Instagram story, “YALL WHITE PEOPLE DOWN HERE ARE BROKE AND RACIST LMAO,” and called out Aussie tour promoters Bizarro and Point Productions, labelling them “pubic lice”. News.com.au has contacted the promoters for comment about Banks’ claims of not getting paid.

This is yet another outburst from Banks, who has already had a controversial run down under.

After axing her Melbourne show at the last minute, Banks pulled the plug on her Brisbane date, scheduled to take place last week. 

Promoter Point Productions, who Banks fired at when the Melbourne show fell through, posted to their Instagram stories to announce the Brisbane date was unable to proceed “due to unforeseen circumstances” that were “well out of our control”.

Earlier in the day, though, Banks used her burner Instagram to air grievances with Australian fans. 

She said, “I’m so sorry you guys, actually I’m not sorry, but listen: last time I was in Brisbane and ya’ll threw shit on the stage and damn near almost fucking hit me in the face with a fucking bottle of soda or whatever that shit was.

That was the most racist, most demoralising experience of my fucking life and right now I’m on a really good track.”

She continued to say that she has “enough emotional intelligence to erase room for error before it happens” and potentially not perform the show in Brisbane because the Australian media would “make it [her] fault”.

She followed up those stories with one outlining the conditions that the show would need to be under in order to perform, stating, “I will come to Brisbane, there’s gonna be loads of security measures because y’all are not about to play in my fucking face. Not while I’ve worked so hard and finally gotten another major label break.

“Any and everything that can be considered a projective must be checked in at coat check. No keys, no coins, no hair brushes, no vape pens, no lighters. No drinks on the dancefloor. The minute something stupid happens I’m leaving.”

She continued to comment on Australian promoters, stating that they are “the only ones in the world who craft slave like contracts and try to hang revocation of work visas and non-payment over your head, even when you are in physical danger… completely souring the joy and bliss of performing.”

“After this run this will be my very last time touring Australia,” she said.

“This place makes me utterly miserable and I’m too black and beautiful to have a bunch of white people in my face playing with me over their WEAK ASS CURRENCY.”

She then went on to trash the AUD and called this Australian tour her “farewell tour”.

Banks’ Australian visits have a track record of not going down well. In 2015, she performed at Splendour In The Grass festival, an experience she called a “waste of my fucking time”. Banks also took radio announcer Paul Brown‘s tongue-in-cheek congratulatory tweet about finishing a complete set in Australia a little bit too deeply to heart and embarked on a scathing assessment of Australian gig-goers — who she called “terrible”, as well as “violent and belligerent” in reply.

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Written by The Music.com.au